Coronaphobia, musculoskeletal pain, and sleep quality in stay-at home and continued-working persons during the 3-month Covid-19 pandemic lockdown in Turkey

Çelenay, Şeyda Toprak; Karaaslan, Yasemin; Mete, Oğuzhan; Kaya, Derya Özer

doi:10.1080/07420528.2020.1815759

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“…The pandemic may contribute to psychopathology including COVID stress syndrome in patients with anxiety-related disorders (Asmundson et al, 2020;Khosravani, Aardema, et al, 2021;Khosravani, Asmundson, et al, 2021). Indeed, COVID-19 and its anxiety symptoms increase phobic reactions (Arpaci, Karatas, et al, 2020;Arpaci, Karataş, & Baloğlu, 2020), phobic anxiety (Fernández et al, 2020), andcoronaphobia (Mora-Magaña et al, 2020;Toprak Celenay et al, 2020) that are thought to result in anxiety-related disorders or conditions (Lee et al, 2020). So, patients with anxiety disorders are more likely to experience coronaphobia (Asmundson et al, 2020).…”

Section: Covid-19 and Coronaphobiamentioning

confidence: 99%

The Persian Version of the COVID-19 Phobia Scale (Persian-C19P-S) and the Differences in COVID-19-Related Phobic Reactions in Patients with Anxiety Disorders

Ardestani

Khosravani

Bastan

et al. 2021

Int J Ment Health Addiction

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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a pandemic outbreak increasing several psychological distress, such as anxiety and phobia, and may affect patients with anxiety disorders. A scale has been recently designed to assess COVID-19-related phobic reactions named the COVID-19 Phobia Scale (C19P-S). The present study aimed to evaluate factor structure, reliability, and validity of the Persian version of the C19P-S (Persian-C19P-S) in patients with anxiety disorders and to compare COVID-19-related phobia among these patients. Three hundred patients with anxiety disorders completed the Persian-C19P-S and other scales assessing anxiety traits (e.g., the Short Health Anxiety Inventory (SHAI), the Health Concerns Questionnaire-54 (HCQ-54), and the Patient Health Questionnaire-4 (PHQ-4)) and COVID-19-related distress (e.g., the COVID Stress Scales (CSS) and the Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19)). The results showed that the Persian-C19P-S replicated the four-factor structure of the original C19P-S. Internal consistency and test-retest reliability coefficients evidenced the reliability of the scale. The validity of the scale (convergent and discriminant validity) was confirmed. Patients who had generalized anxiety and panic disorders showed higher phobic reactions related to COVID-19 than those with social anxiety disorder and specific phobia. This study indicates that the Persian version of the C19P-S is a valid scale to be used in Iranian patients with anxiety disorders to evaluate COVID-19-related phobia. Moreover, COVID-19-related phobic reactions are higher in some specific types of anxiety disorders.

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Section: Covid-19 and Coronaphobiamentioning

confidence: 99%

The Persian Version of the COVID-19 Phobia Scale (Persian-C19P-S) and the Differences in COVID-19-Related Phobic Reactions in Patients with Anxiety Disorders

Ardestani

Khosravani

Bastan

et al. 2021

Int J Ment Health Addiction

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“…Furthermore, our findings confirm the general public concerns regarding the adverse health effects of the pandemic, especially those expressed through the social media since early 2020. These include, for example, the published accounts of the COVID-19 epidemic in New York City [ 49 ] or lockdown in Turkey [ 18 ], as well discussion of the specific mental health problems [ 6 , 23 ]; psychological reactions [ 7 , 8 , 9 ]; and the effects on obesity and cardiovascular diseases [ 3 , 10 ].…”

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“…The focus of this study was on assessing the extent of reports of back pain before (2019) and during (2020) the COVID-19 outbreak. Previous studies, such as [ 5 , 17 , 18 ] reported increase in back pain caused by quarantine and home isolation process. Our findings based on a large sample of Twitter data are in agreement with those studies and suggest a significant (up to 84%) increase in the number of complaints of back pain during the pandemic compared to the immediate pre-pandemic time.…”

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“…Similarly, Pekyavaş and Pekyavas [ 17 ] indicated that back pain was the most common pain reported by the participants working at home-offices due to pandemic restrictions. Another research conducted in Turkey during the 3-month pandemic lockdown revealed that the individuals who stayed at home exhibited significantly higher back pain rates than those who continued to work in their offices at their regular workplaces [ 18 ]. It should also be noted that physical pain such as headache or lower back pain can be associated with early symptoms of COVID-19 infection [ 19 , 20 ].…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Surveys and clinical patient data are two major sources of information essential for public health investigations [ 5 , 10 , 17 , 18 ]. The advent of social media has introduced a new source of data and has provided the global society a popular communication platform that can be used to examine individuals’ behavior, emotion, and opinions in several domains.…”

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A Study of the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Experience of Back Pain Reported on Twitter® in the United States: A Natural Language Processing Approach

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Karwowski

Gutiérrez

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The COVID-19 pandemic has changed our lifestyles, habits, and daily routine. Some of the impacts of COVID-19 have been widely reported already. However, many effects of the COVID-19 pandemic are still to be discovered. The main objective of this study was to assess the changes in the frequency of reported physical back pain complaints reported during the COVID-19 pandemic. In contrast to other published studies, we target the general population using Twitter as a data source. Specifically, we aim to investigate differences in the number of back pain complaints between the pre-pandemic and during the pandemic. A total of 53,234 and 78,559 tweets were analyzed for November 2019 and November 2020, respectively. Because Twitter users do not always complain explicitly when they tweet about the experience of back pain, we have designed an intelligent filter based on natural language processing (NLP) to automatically classify the examined tweets into the back pain complaining class and other tweets. Analysis of filtered tweets indicated an 84% increase in the back pain complaints reported in November 2020 compared to November 2019. These results might indicate significant changes in lifestyle during the COVID-19 pandemic, including restrictions in daily body movements and reduced exposure to routine physical exercise.

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Impact of the restrictions on community activities policy during the COVID‐19 on psychological health in Indonesia's urban and rural residents: A cross‐sectional study

Desdiani

Sutarto

2022

Health Science Reports

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Background and Aims Although extensive research has been conducted on the psychological impact after exposure to the COVID‐19 pandemic, very few studies simultaneously investigated the negative and positive impacts on urban and rural residents. This study aims to compare the extent of psychological impact on Indonesian living in urban and rural areas a year after the first case of COVID‐19 was reported. Design, Methodology and Approach We employed a cross‐sectional study design. A total of 428 participants completed a set of web‐based questionnaires from February to March 2021, consisting of the Impact of Event Scale‐Revised (IES‐R), the Perceived Social‐Support (PSS), the mental health‐related lifestyle (MHLS), and 6‐item negative impacts, and the Jenkins' Sleep Scale (JSS). Findings Over 40% of the participants reported moderate to severe trauma‐related distress; 30%–40% increased stress at work, home, and financial stress, and 50% more social support gained from their family and friends. Although 62.1% of participants paid more attention to their mental health, only 30% engaged in a healthier lifestyle, and 36.7% had sleep problems. No significant differences were found between urban and rural residents on psychological impact, changes in mental health and related lifestyles, and sleep quality. Urban residents perceived more negative impacts, in parallel with increased social support, compared to rural residents. We also found a significant correlation between psychological impact, sleep disturbance, and increased social support. However, there was no significant association between mental health‐related lifestyles and other scales. Originality and Value This is among the first studies that examine the urban–rural disparity on the positive and negative impact of the COVID‐19 in the later stage of the pandemic. Our findings offer insights to provide equal effort to mitigate the negative impacts of the COVID‐19 crisis as well as promote healthy lifestyle behaviors in both urban and rural residencies.

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Coronaphobia, musculoskeletal pain, and sleep quality in stay-at home and continued-working persons during the 3-month Covid-19 pandemic lockdown in Turkey

Cited by 97 publications

References 32 publications

The Persian Version of the COVID-19 Phobia Scale (Persian-C19P-S) and the Differences in COVID-19-Related Phobic Reactions in Patients with Anxiety Disorders

The Persian Version of the COVID-19 Phobia Scale (Persian-C19P-S) and the Differences in COVID-19-Related Phobic Reactions in Patients with Anxiety Disorders

A Study of the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Experience of Back Pain Reported on Twitter® in the United States: A Natural Language Processing Approach

Impact of the restrictions on community activities policy during the COVID‐19 on psychological health in Indonesia's urban and rural residents: A cross‐sectional study

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