Fear of COVID-19 and Preventive Health Behavior: Mediating Role of Post-Traumatic Stress Symptomology and Psychological Distress

Olapegba, Peter O.; Chovwen, CO; Ayandele, Olusola; Ramos-Vera, Cristian

doi:10.1007/s11469-021-00557-4

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“…However, there was one exception: posttraumatic stress symptomatology (as measured by the IES-R) did account for unique variance in COVID-19 preparedness. This is consistent with recent work by Olapegba et al (2021), who found that greater posttraumatic stress symptomology predicted greater levels of COVID-19-related preventative health behavior. It is unclear why this should be the case, given that outside of the context of COVID-19, posttraumatic stress is typically understood to decrease functioning (Matthews et al, 2009;Veling et al, 2013).…”

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Hope and Fear in the Midst of Coronavirus: What Accounts for COVID-19 Preparedness?

Feldman

2021

American Behavioral Scientist

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Objective: The present study asks the question: What variables accounted for people’s tendencies to take steps to prepare for COVID-19 during the earliest stage of the pandemic? Data collection took place from March 6 to 11, 2020. In particular, the study examines variables that have been shown to predict health behavior in previous research outside the context of the present pandemic, including hope, optimism, perceived risk, fear, and mental health variables. Method: Participants (222 adults in 39 U.S. states) were recruited via Amazon Mechanical Turk. Online surveys included the Adult Hope Scale (AHS), Life Orientation Test (LOT-R), Health Anxiety Inventory (HAI), Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale (DASS-21), Impact of Events Scale (IES-R), and Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS). Also included were items inquiring about COVID-19 perceived mortality risk, fear/anxiety, and preparedness. Results and Conclusion: Participants were asked to imagine that COVID-19 had different hypothetical levels of mortality risk, ranging from 1 to 10 percent mortality (at the time of data collection, the WHO estimated actual mortality of the disease at approximately 3 percent). For each level, participants rated the degree to which they would be willing to take steps to prepare and protect themselves from the disease on a 7-point scale. Nearly 49 percent of participants said they would be relatively unlikely (i.e., provided a rating below the midpoint of the scale) to take steps to protect themselves if the mortality rate were at the 3 percent level. Stepwise multiple regression including the aforementioned predictors showed that three variables accounted for unique variance in participants’ levels of current preparedness: COVID-19 fear/anxiety, posttraumatic stress (as measured by the IES-R), and hope. Implications of these results are briefly discussed in the context of raising preparedness given that future public health crises are likely inevitable.

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Hope and Fear in the Midst of Coronavirus: What Accounts for COVID-19 Preparedness?

Feldman

2021

American Behavioral Scientist

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“…In contrast, the higher vaccination intention in this study may be due to the fact that Wenzhou is located in the eastern region of China, and a recent study showed that college students in the eastern region of mainland China are more willing to get the HPV vaccine compared to the western region [35]. In addition to this, the COVID-19 pandemic in the first half of 2020 has promoted concern for people's own health, and the results of several studies have shown that people's fear of COVID-19 may promote preventive health behaviors, thus acting as a form of protection [36,37].…”

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Gender Differences in Knowledge and Attitude towards HPV and HPV Vaccine among College Students in Wenzhou, China

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Objective: This study aimed to determine human papillomavirus (HPV)-related awareness and willingness to receive HPV vaccination among college students, in Wenzhou, and its associated factors. Methods: A cross-sectional epidemiological study was conducted among college students in Wenzhou to investigate their knowledge, attitude, and factors affecting their willingness to receive HPV vaccination. Results: A total of 1035 questionnaires were collected, of which 1002 were valid (males: 374, females: 628). In total, 904 (90.2%) college students had heard of HPV, with a lower rate among males than females (85.3% vs. 93.2%, p < 0.05) and 693 (69.2%) had heard of the HPV vaccine, with a significantly lower rate among males than females (53.7% vs. 78.3%, p < 0.05). Overall awareness of HPV and HPV vaccine among males and females was moderate, with lower awareness among males. A total of 55.9% of males and 80.4% of females indicated that they would be willing to receive the HPV vaccine, a significant difference (p < 0.001). The price, safety of HPV vaccine, and lack of knowledge about HPV and HPV vaccine were the major barriers to HPV vaccination for college students. Compared to females, inadequate knowledge of HPV was the main barrier factor for HPV vaccination among male college students. Conclusions: The overall knowledge level of males is lower than that of females. For male college students, providing more knowledge about HPV infection is helpful to promote their willingness to vaccinate. It is necessary to promote HPV-related knowledge for male and female college students, respectively.

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“…Sin embargo, la prevalencia del miedo por COVID-19 en modelos de red ha mostrado una (12) (23) divergencia de resultados en otros contextos como Estados Unidos e Italia . Dado la evidencia de relación entre los síntomas de angustia, miedo y estrés en adultos de diversos contextos (5,12,23) socioculturales durante la pandemia de COVID- 19 se recomienda a futuras investigaciones (5) explorar más a fondo tales variables y si afectan las medidas preventivas de contagio por COVID-19 .…”

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“…El miedo al COVID-19 está asociado con la presencia de síntomas ansiosos, depresivos y estrés (5) traumático , lo cual afianza el desarrollo de problemas emocionales en personas con mayor vulnerabilidad psicológica. La evidencia de modelos explicativos del miedo refiere que la exposición al (6) miedo constante aumenta la ansiedad, que a su vez puede desencadenar estrés traumático .…”

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Network analysis of psychological distress, posttraumatic stress and fear symptoms by COVID-19 in Peruvian adults

Ramos-Vera

Serpa

2021

Rev. virtual Soc. Parag. Med. Int

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Introduction:The coronavirus pandemic and the social distancing measures used to mitigate the spread of the virus may have serious mental health consequences.Objective: To investigate the components network of the symptomatology of psychological distress, stress and fear of COVID-19 in Peruvian adults during the first pandemic wave in Peru during 2020.Methods: Six hundred nine Peruvian adults were includeds (57.51% women; M age: 27.04) from the Metropolitan city of Lima, who responded to the instruments adapted to Spanish: Impact of event scale-revised-R (IES-R), Patient Health Questionnaire-4 (PHQ-4) and Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19S), whose item responses represented the network analysis with measures of centrality and stability of the nodes.Results: Higher measures of centrality were observed for the depressed mood, fear of contagion and fear of death items by COVID-19. The greatest network connections were found among depressive symptoms, post-traumatic avoidance symptoms, emotional symptoms of fear of COVID-19. Also, the stability of the strength centrality measures and the accuracy of the network nodes or variables was demonstrated.Conclusions: Participants manifested higher levels of symptoms of depression and fear of COVID-19, such symptoms were more central in the network, and reported higher activation connections in the network, the consideration of which is determinant for better effectiveness in pandemic intervention and prevention for health and behavioral sciences professionals

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Fear of COVID-19 and Preventive Health Behavior: Mediating Role of Post-Traumatic Stress Symptomology and Psychological Distress

Cited by 45 publications

References 39 publications

Hope and Fear in the Midst of Coronavirus: What Accounts for COVID-19 Preparedness?

Hope and Fear in the Midst of Coronavirus: What Accounts for COVID-19 Preparedness?

Gender Differences in Knowledge and Attitude towards HPV and HPV Vaccine among College Students in Wenzhou, China

Network analysis of psychological distress, posttraumatic stress and fear symptoms by COVID-19 in Peruvian adults

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