COVID-19 paranoia in a patient suffering from schizophrenic psychosis – a case report

Fischer, Matthias; Coogan, Andrew N.; Faltraco, Frank; Thome, Johannes

doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113001

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“…It is worth noting that there were only 8 respondents with a history of mental illness in this survey, so a larger sample size is needed to further study the impact of COVID-19 on this group of people. Similar to our conclusions, several pieces of research have also shown that the additional psychological stress of COVID-19 may aggravate existing symptoms in patients (especially women) with mental illness, which may subsequently develop more serious consequences such as decreased immunity and potentially increase the incidence of underlying diseases, thereby increasing the risk of being infected by SARS- COV-2 (Gonzalez-Sanguino et al 2020;Wang et al 2020a;Stefana et al 2020;Fischer et al 2020). We also found that older adults were more likely to be affected, and effects were particularly prominent in nonmedical personnel.…”

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The psychological impact of COVID-19 outbreak on medical staff and the general public

Chen

Zhang

et al. 2020

Curr Psychol

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To assess the psychological effects of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on medical staff and the general public. During the outbreak of COVID-19, an internet-based questionnaire included The Self-rating Depression Scale (SDS), Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10), and Impact of Event Scale-Revised (IES-R) was used to assess the impact of the pandemic situation on the mental health of medical staff and general population in Wuhan and its surrounding areas. Among the 1493 questionnaires completed, 827 (55.39%) of these were men, and 422 (28.27%) of these were medical personnel. The results suggest that the outbreak of COVID-19 has affected individuals significantly, the degree of which is related to age, sex, occupation and mental illness. There was a significant difference in PSS-10 and IES-R scores between the medical staff and the general population. The medical staff showed higher PSS-10 scores (16.813 ± 4.87) and IES-R scores (22.40 ± 12.12) compared to members of the general population PSS-10 (14.80 ± 5.60) and IES-R scores (17.89 ± 13.08). However, there was no statistically significant difference between the SDS scores of medical staff (44.52 ± 12.36) and the general public (43.08 ± 11.42). In terms of the need for psychological assistance, 50.97% of interviewees responded that they needed psychological counseling, of which medical staff accounted for 65.87% and non-medical staff accounted for 45.10%. During the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak, great attention should be paid to the mental health of the population, especially medical staff, and measures such as psychological intervention should be actively carried out for reducing the psychosocial effects.

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The psychological impact of COVID-19 outbreak on medical staff and the general public

Chen

Zhang

et al. 2020

Curr Psychol

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“…Worsening of the psychiatric symptoms among some patients with pre-existing psychiatric disorders, was reported (Fernandez-Aranda et al, 2020;Zhou et al, 2020), and two case studies report on the COVID-19 pandemic being a part of the psychotic content of two noninfected patients admitted to the psychiatric word (Fischer et al, 2020;Sahoo et al, 2020). However, our systematic review reveals that knowledge on the COVID-19 impact on patients with preexisting psychiatric disorders is very scarce, and the knowledge of impact from earlier pandemics/epidemics on this group is also very limited.…”

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COVID-19 pandemic and mental health consequences: Systematic review of the current evidence

Vindegaard

Benros

2020

Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

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Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre-including this research content-immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.

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“…People at higher risk of mental problems may respond with the first onset of psychiatric symptoms or relapse ( Brown et al, 2020 ; Kelly, 2020 ; Pfefferbaum & North, 2020 ). For instance, the recent case report suggested that the severity of delusions may significantly increase in the context of the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in patients with schizophrenia ( Fischer, Coogan, Faltraco, & Thome, 2020 ). However, there is some evidence that perceived stress does not hinder adherence to safety guidelines ( Perez, Uddin, Galea, Monto, & Aiello, 2012 ).…”

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Adherence to safety and self-isolation guidelines, conspiracy and paranoia-like beliefs during COVID-19 pandemic in Poland - associations and moderators

Kowalski

Marchlewska

Molenda

et al. 2020

Psychiatry Research

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Highlights Conspiracy beliefs concerning coronavirus are present in the population and are negatively related to adherence to epidemiological safety guidelines. Conspiracy beliefs may originate partially from boredom and paranoia proneness. Certain factors – trust in media outlets and internal motivation to isolation – may be potentially worthwhile to address to enhance adherence to safety guidelines in the general population.

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COVID-19 paranoia in a patient suffering from schizophrenic psychosis – a case report

Cited by 75 publications

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The psychological impact of COVID-19 outbreak on medical staff and the general public

The psychological impact of COVID-19 outbreak on medical staff and the general public

COVID-19 pandemic and mental health consequences: Systematic review of the current evidence

Adherence to safety and self-isolation guidelines, conspiracy and paranoia-like beliefs during COVID-19 pandemic in Poland - associations and moderators

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