Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Psychological Well-Being and Mental Health Based on a German Online Survey

Lingelbach, Katharina; Piechnik, Daniela; Gado, Sabrina; Janssen, Doris; Eichler, Martin; Hentschel, Leopold; Knopf, Dennis; Schüler, Markus; Sernatinger, Daniel; Peißner, Matthias

doi:10.3389/fpubh.2021.655083

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“…However, confirmatory studies in this regard are still lacking. Finally, several studies investigating psychological well-being during the pandemic were also conducted with an exclusively web-based methodology [10,18,20]. There have been some concerns about the generalizability of findings obtained from online surveys primarily related to selection bias or poor methodological clarity [21][22][23].…”

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Anxiety and Depression during the Second Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Coping Strategies

Miola

Caiolo

Pontoni³

et al. 2023

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Background: Evidence suggests increased anxious-depressive symptoms in the general population during the COVID-19 pandemic, also in its second wave. High symptom variability across individuals suggests that risk and protective factors, including coping strategies, can play a mediating role. Methods: General Anxiety Disorder-7, Patient Health Questionnaire-9, and Brief-COPE questionnaires were administered to people attending a COVID-19 point-of-care. Univariate and multivariate methods were used to test the association of symptoms with risk and protective factors. Results: A total of 3509 participants (27.5% with moderate-severe anxiety; 12% with depressive symptoms) were recruited. Sociodemographic and lifestyle factors, including age, sex, sleep, physical activity, psychiatric treatments, parenthood, employment, and religiosity were associated with affective symptoms. Avoidant (self-distraction, venting, behavioral disengagement) and approach (emotional support, self-blame but not positive reframing and acceptance) coping strategies predicted greater anxiety. Avoidant strategies, including venting, denial, behavioral disengagement, substance use, and self-blame, and the humor strategy were associated with more severe depressive symptoms, while the planning predicted the opposite. Conclusions: Coping strategies, in addition to socio-demographic and life-habit factors, could have contributed to modulating anxious and depressive symptoms during the second-wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, thus advocating for interventions aimed at promoting positive coping strategies to reduce the psychosocial toll of the pandemic.

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Anxiety and Depression during the Second Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Coping Strategies

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“…First, the online mode of administration might be responsible for selection bias, and the quota sampling lacks known sampling probability. Second, data were collected during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Hungary that could have an effect on self-reported health, particularly on young adults' mental health [62][63][64][65][66][67]. However, responses on self-perceived health status (SF-36 first question) were roughly identical to those reported in a similar large-scale general population survey in Hungary before the pandemic (2019) [68].…”

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Hungarian PROMIS-29+2: psychometric properties and population reference values

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Objectives This study aims to assess psychometric properties of the Hungarian PROMIS-29+2 profile measure and provide general population reference values for Hungary. Methods An adult general population sample (n = 1700) completed PROMIS-29+2 v2.1 in an online survey. The following psychometric properties were assessed: floor and ceiling effect, convergent validity with SF-36v1 domains, internal consistency (McDonald’s omega), unidimensionality, local independence, monotonicity, graded response model (GRM) fit and differential item functioning (DIF). Age- and gender-specific reference values were established using the US item calibrations. Results Depending on scale orientation, high floor or ceiling effects were observed for all domains (25.2–60.7%) except for sleep disturbance. McDonald’s omega for domains ranged from 0.87–0.97. Unidimensionality, local independence and monotonicity were supported and the GRM adequately fitted for all but one domains. The sleep disturbance domain demonstrated item misfit, response level disordering and low discrimination ability, particularly for item Sleep116 (‘refreshing sleep’). Strong correlations were observed between PROMIS-29+2 and corresponding SF-36 domains (rs=│0.60│ to │0.78│). No DIF was detected for most sociodemographic characteristics. Problems with physical function, pain interference and social roles tended to increase, whereas problems with anxiety, depression, fatigue and cognitive function declined with age (p < 0.01). In all domains except for cognitive function, more health problems occurred in females than in males (p < 0.001). Conclusion The Hungarian PROMIS-29+2 shows satisfactory psychometric properties; however, the sleep disturbance domain substantially underperforms that requires further attention. Population reference values were generated that facilitate the interpretation of health outcomes in various patient populations.

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“…These variables include both categorical and continuous data, and so it was necessary to select a clustering methodology that performs effectively with mixed datasets. Partitioning around medoids 39 (PAM) has previously been used for clustering with mixed categorical and continuous data, for a wide variety of applications, including, for example, identifying the psychological effects of COVID-19 40 , clustering fishing vessels into discrete fleets 41 , grouping Indonesian districts for priority for intervention to address stunting 42 , grouping estuaries by a range of biotic and abiotic factors 43 , grouping similar patients presenting with back pain 44 , and identifying different fishing tactics from catch composition 45 among others 46 – 48 .…”

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A typology of North Sea oil and gas platforms

Lawrence

Fernandes

2022

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Since the commercial exploitation of marine oil and gas reserves began in the middle of the twentieth century, extensive networks of offshore infrastructure have been installed globally. Many of the structures are now nearing the end of their operational lives and will soon require decommissioning, generating renewed interest in their environmental impacts and in the ecological consequences of their removal. However, such work requires selection of a subsample of assets for surveying; censuses of the entire ‘population’ in any given jurisdiction are practically impossible due to their sheer number. It is important, therefore, that the selected sample is sufficiently representative of the population to draw generalized conclusions. Here, a formal clustering methodology, partitioning around medoids, was used to produce a typology of surface-piercing oil and gas platforms in the North Sea. The variables used for clustering were hydrocarbon product, operational state, platform design and material, and substructure weight. Assessing intra-cluster variability identified 13 clusters as the optimum number. The most important distinguishing variable was platform type, isolating floating platforms first, then concrete gravity-based and then fixed steel. Following clustering, a geographic trend was evident, with oil production more prevalent in the north and gas in the south. The typology allows a representative subset of North Sea oil and gas platforms to be selected when designing a survey, or an assessment of the representativeness of a previously selected subset of platforms. This will facilitate the efficient use of the limited funding available for such studies.

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Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Psychological Well-Being and Mental Health Based on a German Online Survey

Cited by 12 publications

References 43 publications

Anxiety and Depression during the Second Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Coping Strategies

Anxiety and Depression during the Second Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Coping Strategies

Hungarian PROMIS-29+2: psychometric properties and population reference values

A typology of North Sea oil and gas platforms

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