Health anxiety, coping mechanisms and COVID 19: An Indian community sample at week 1 of lockdown

Millar, Evelyn Barron; Singhal, Divya; Vijayaraghavan, P.R.; Seshadri, Shekhar; Smith, Eleanor; Dixon, Pauline; Humble, Steve; Rodgers, Jacqui; Sharma, Arpita

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“…Coping strategies have the main strength, namely being able to manage negative thoughts into positive ones or change bad conditions becomes better (Pons, Viladrich, Ramis, & Polman, 2018;Borkoles et al, 2018). Previous studies also support the results of this study, where coping strategies are an effective method for a person to control and reduce stress levels (Bamuhair et al, 2015) and anxiety (Millar et al, 2021). In addition, using coping strategies with properly will be an effective pedagogical tool to reduce stress and anxiety of students when studying both offline and online class (Basith et al, 2021).…”

Section: Impact Of Coping Strategies On Anxietysupporting

confidence: 83%

“…Recent studies have reported that several factors that cause the increment of anxiety levels are online learning which has various obstacles is a trigger for anxiety symptoms in students (Basheti, Mhaidat & Mhaidat, 2021). Several factors caused the level of anxiety during the pandemic increase drastically, were students were afraid of contracting COVID-19, students had to undergo isolation/lock down (Millar et al, 2021), or the difficulty of carrying out physical education learning online (Jumareng et al, 2021).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Increase Students’ Self-Confidence and Reduce Anxiety During Covid-19: Is Coping Strategy Becomes the Solution?

Arifin

Saputra

Muzakki

et al. 2022

J. Obs. J. Pendidik. Anak Usia Dini

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Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui efek strategi coping terhadap peningkatan rasa percaya diri dan penurunan kecemasan. Penelitian ini mengadopsi metode campuran. Tujuh puluh siswa diambil dari sekolah dasar. Penelitian ini menggunakan kuesioner sebagai instrumen kuantitatif untuk mengukur kepercayaan diri dan kecemasan serta wawancara melalui Zoom Meetings sebagai instrumen kualitatif. Analisis data kuantitatif menggunakan IBM SPSS untuk mencari statistik deskriptif, normalitas dan paired sample t-test berfungsi untuk mengetahui perbedaan nilai kepercayaan diri dan kecemasan sebelum dan sesudah intervensi dan analisis data kualitatif melalui pengurutan data berdasarkan kategorisasi berdasarkan kesamaan dan kumpulan frasa serupa dikelompokkan. Hasil penelitian kuantitatif menunjukkan bahwa strategi coping efektif dapat meningkatkan rasa percaya diri dan mengurangi kecemasan. Sedangkan hasil kualitatif menunjukkan bahwa sebagian besar siswa menyatakan rasa percaya diri meningkat dan kecemasan menurun drastis. Penelitian ini menjadi bukti empiris bahwa strategi coping berdampak besar untuk meningkatkan rasa percaya diri, serta menurunkan tingkat kecemasan siswa.

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Section: Impact Of Coping Strategies On Anxietysupporting

confidence: 83%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Increase Students’ Self-Confidence and Reduce Anxiety During Covid-19: Is Coping Strategy Becomes the Solution?

Arifin

Saputra

Muzakki

et al. 2022

J. Obs. J. Pendidik. Anak Usia Dini

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“…The third C-'connectedness' addresses the innate human need for social support. Millar et al (2021) studied the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown restrictions in India on the psychological, social, and behavioural changes of the public. The study used cross-sectional data of 234 respondents collected after the completion of the first week of lockdown.…”

Section: Psychology Of Copingmentioning

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Studying the psychology of coping negative emotions during COVID-19: a quantitative analysis from India

Pandey

Talan

Mahendru³

et al. 2021

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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The outbreak of the COVID-19 virus adversely affected the material and mental well-being of the infected individuals and their families. The poor health system combined with lack of fear of infection has created significant negative health effects for people. The present research consider the notable models of coping with negative emotions, including '3Cs' and 'direct action and palliation approach'. With the observation method's help, a detailed perspective was found on people's coping processes, categorized as psychological, control, coherence, and connectedness coping. The present study considers the notable models of dealing with negative feelings, including '3Cs' and 'direct intervention and palliation strategy'. With the observation method's support, a detailed viewpoint was found on people's coping mechanisms, categorized as neurological, regulation, coherence, and connectedness coping. Using the ANOVA and t-tests, a significant augmentation in people's negative emotions was found since the beginning of the pandemic. Using GMM regression technique, 'avoidance', 'proactive preparedness', 'emotional resilience', 'entertainment', and 'spiritualism' were highly significant techniques in curbing the negative emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Meanwhile, the LOGIT regression found cumulative negative emotions and emotions about negative career outlooks to be the most significant to bring negative emotions to normalcy. The study suggests that policymakers design a national-level strategy to strengthen the mental health systems to boost mental well-being.Keywords COVID-19 . Negative emotions . Coping strategies . Quantitative . LOGIT regression Highlights • This study considers the notable models of coping with negative emotions during the pandemic. • Survey data from the residents of India is utilized.• The study employed GMM and logistic (LOGIT) regression for empirical analysis. • Avoidance, proactive preparedness, and entertainment might be helpful in curbing the negative emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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“…However, a high level of compliance to undergo CXR examination in this study was probably due to worry about long COVID among the population after a serious COVID-19 outbreak recently subsided [ 36 ]. In addition to TB detection, they might expect CXR to detect the residual effects of COVID-19 and thus they had high compliance.…”

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confidence: 99%

Mobile Health App for Tuberculosis Screening and Compliance to Undergo Chest X-ray Examination Among Presumptive Cases Detected by the App in Myanmar: Usability Study

Htet¹,

Phyu²,

Thwin³

et al. 2022

JMIR Form Res

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Background In Myanmar, the use of a mobile app for tuberculosis (TB) screening and its operational effect on seeking TB health care have not been evaluated yet. Objective This study aims to report the usability of a simple mobile app to screen TB and comply with chest X-ray (CXR) examination of presumptive cases detected by the app. Methods A new “TB-screen” app was developed from a Google Sheet based on a previously published algorithm. The app calculates a TB risk propensity score from an individual’s sociodemographic characteristics and TB clinical history and suggests whether the individual should undergo a CXR. The screening program was launched in urban slum areas soon after the COVID-19 outbreak subsided. A standard questionnaire was used to assess the app’s usability rated by presumptive cases. Compliance to undergo CXR was confirmed by scanning the referral quick response (QR) code via the app. Results Raters were 453 presumptive cases detected by the app. The mean usability rating score was 4.1 out of 5. Compliance to undergo CXR examination was 71.1% (n=322). Active TB case detection among CXR compliances was 7.5% (n=24). One standard deviation (SD) increase in the app usability score was significantly associated with a 59% increase in the odds to comply with CXR (β=.464) after adjusting for other variables (P<.001). Conclusions This simple mobile app got a high usability score rated by 453 users. The mobile app usability score successfully predicted compliance to undergo CXR examination. Eventually, 24 (7.5%) of 322 users who were suspected of having TB by the mobile app were detected as active TB cases by CXR. The system should be upscaled for a large trial.

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Health anxiety, coping mechanisms and COVID 19: An Indian community sample at week 1 of lockdown

Cited by 20 publications

References 60 publications

Increase Students’ Self-Confidence and Reduce Anxiety During Covid-19: Is Coping Strategy Becomes the Solution?

Increase Students’ Self-Confidence and Reduce Anxiety During Covid-19: Is Coping Strategy Becomes the Solution?

Studying the psychology of coping negative emotions during COVID-19: a quantitative analysis from India

Mobile Health App for Tuberculosis Screening and Compliance to Undergo Chest X-ray Examination Among Presumptive Cases Detected by the App in Myanmar: Usability Study

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