COVID-19 and Lockdwon: A Study on the Impact on Mental Health

Ssh, Kazmi; Dk, Hasan; Talib, Salim Abdul; Saxena, Sanjeev

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“…Our results conform with a study done on the general population in Italy showing that COVID-19 outbreak has had a psychological effect on the people [11]. We also found that females reported significantly higher prevalence and scores for depression, anxiety, and stress which is in the line with the study was done in Indian, reporting that women significantly have a high prevalence of depression, anxiety, and stress compared to the men [12]. On the other hand, a study done in Iran revealed only anxiety was higher in males than females while depression and stress were not significantly different [13].…”

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Depression, Anxiety, and Stress In The Time of COVID-19 Pandemic In Kurdistan Region, Iraq

Kamal

Othman

2020

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The global spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, its threat to people’s health and its indirect impacts through the subsequent measures taken by governments to control the disease have led to uncertainty and huge disruption in the way people used to live with a negative impact on mental health and wellbeing. The current study estimate prevalence of the common mental health disorders among a sample of the adult population in the Kurdistan Region during the pandemic. Through an online survey using DASS-21 to measure depression, anxiety, and stress data of 548 adult participants were collected during April 2020 and analyzed. The sample was mainly from Sulaimani (89%), mean age was 37.9 (SD 13.5) and male/female ratio was 1. Prevalence of any severity levels of depression, anxiety, and stress was 45%, 47%, and 18% respectively. In regression analysis, notably female sex was a significant independent factor for higher levels of depression (coefficient 1.89, p<0.05), anxiety (coefficient 2.19, p<0.001), and stress (coefficient 1.52, p<0.05). Postgraduate education and other occupations were also significantly associated with depression (coefficient 3.81, p<0.05; coefficient 2.39, p<0.05 respectively), anxiety (coefficient 2.92, p<0.05; coefficient 4.1, p<0.001 respectively) and stress (coefficient 3.83, p<0.001; coefficient 4.1, p<0.001 respectively). The study indicates high levels of common mental health disorders during the pandemic and calls for public health measures to promote the mental health and resilience of the population.

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Depression, Anxiety, and Stress In The Time of COVID-19 Pandemic In Kurdistan Region, Iraq

Kamal

Othman

2020

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“…The DASS has proven to be reliable and relevant for assessing mental health in the Bangladeshi population (Alim et al 2015;Sadiq et al 2019). The DASS-21 has been used for assessing the psychological impacts of COVID-19 in several studies, and thus was deemed most appropriate for use in the current study (Kazmi et al 2020;Wang et al 2020aWang et al , 2020b. The Cronbach's alpha coefficient of the DASS-21 was 0.92, indicating acceptable internal consistency (Taber 2018).…”

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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of the adult population in Bangladesh: a nationwide cross-sectional study

Banna

Sayeed

Kundu

et al. 2020

International Journal of Environmental Health Research

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The recent COVID-19 pandemic has imposed threats on both physical and mental health since its outbreak. This study aimed to explore the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health among a representative sample of home-quarantined Bangladeshi adults. A cross-sectional design was used with an online survey completed by a convenience sample recruited via social media. A total of 1,427 respondents were recruited, and their mental health was assessed by the DASS-21 measure. The prevalence of anxiety symptoms and depressive symptoms was 33.7% and 57.9%, respectively, and 59.7% reported mild to extremely severe levels of stress. Perceptions that the pandemic disrupted life events, affected mental health, jobs, the economy and education, predictions of a worsening situation, and uncertainty of the health care system capacities were significantly associated with poor mental health outcomes. Multivariate logistic regressions showed that sociodemographic factors and perceptions of COVID-19 significantly predict mental health outcomes. These findings warrant the consideration of easily accessible lowintensity mental health interventions during and beyond this pandemic.

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“…They appear to be associated with feelings of frustration and insecurity and to have negative effects on mental health and well-being (Cao et al, 2020;Liang et al, 2020;Rith-Najarian et al, 2019;Serafini et al, 2020;Shanahan et al, 2020;Zivin et al, 2009;. Some previous studies pointed to an increased psychological burden during the pandemic in the samples of young adults: in the representative sample of university students in China, found that their participants experienced higher levels of anxiety than the general population after the outbreak of COVID -19; in the university community during the first weeks of confinement in Spain, Odriozola-Gonzáleza et al (2020) observed higher levels of depression, anxiety and stress among students compared to the university workers; and the study by Kazmi et al (2020) in India found that depression, anxiety and stress were more common among participants aged 15-35 years.…”

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The psychological distress in students during the COVID-19 crisis: An 8-wave longitudinal study

Vulić-Prtorić¹,

Bodrožić²,

Sturnela³

2020

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The aim of this study is to investigate the changes in psychological distress during initial stage of the coronavirus pandemic in Croatia. The sample consisted of 363 students with an average age of 23.42 years. The results show that students in Croatia reported average levels of depression, anxiety and stress, with no differences in the degree of psychological distress between the pre-pandemic period and the pandemic period. Of the respondents, 19.48%, 28.8% and 22.08% respectively reported moderate to severe depression, anxiety and stress, which remained largely stable during the survey period. All significant differences during the 8-week period show that depression, anxiety and stress generally decrease over time.

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COVID-19 and Lockdwon: A Study on the Impact on Mental Health

Cited by 138 publications

References 5 publications

Depression, Anxiety, and Stress In The Time of COVID-19 Pandemic In Kurdistan Region, Iraq

Depression, Anxiety, and Stress In The Time of COVID-19 Pandemic In Kurdistan Region, Iraq

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of the adult population in Bangladesh: a nationwide cross-sectional study

The psychological distress in students during the COVID-19 crisis: An 8-wave longitudinal study

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