Lessening Anxiety, Panic, and Complacency in Pandemics

Huang, Peter H.

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3575101

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“…Literature on pandemics provides abundant discussion of resulting emotional responses, most often addressing anxiety and anger (e.g. Huang, 2020;Jungmann & Witthöft, 2020;Karademas et al, 2013), but occasionally also positive emotions (Kim & Niederdeppe, 2013). These different emotions are important for the management of a pandemic for different reasons.…”

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“…People are less likely to accept advice when they are angry (Gino & Schweitzer, 2008) and might thus not comply with suggested measures such as wearing masks. Anger further involves action tendencies such as attack or rejection aimed at eliminating perceived obstacles (Frijda, 1986), which can result in open violations of prevention measures (Huang, 2020).…”

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Collective Emotions during the COVID-19 Outbreak

Metzler¹,

Rimé²,

Pellert³

et al. 2021

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The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the world's population to sudden challenges that elicited strong emotional reactions. Although investigations of responses to tragic one-off events exist, studies on the evolution of collective emotions during a pandemic are missing. We analyzed the digital traces of emotional expressions in tweets during five weeks after the start of outbreaks in 18 countries and six different languages. We observed an early strong upsurge of anxiety-related terms in all countries, which was stronger in countries with stronger increases in cases. Sadness terms rose and anger terms decreased around two weeks later, as social distancing measures were implemented. Positive emotions remained relatively stable. All emotions changed together with an increase in the stringency of measures during certain weeks of the outbreak. Our results show some of the most enduring changes in emotional expression observed in long periods of social media data. Words that frequently occurred in tweets suggest a shift in topics of conversation across all emotions, from political ones in 2019, to pandemic related issues during the outbreak, including everyday life changes, other people, and health. This kind of time-sensitive analyses of large-scale samples of emotional expression have the potential to inform mental health support and risk communication.

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Collective Emotions during the COVID-19 Outbreak

Metzler¹,

Rimé²,

Pellert³

et al. 2021

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“…Studies show that reducing anxiety, fear, and stress in epidemics improves mental health. Therefore, effective interventions to reduce fear and anxiety seem necessary 13 . Researchers have found effective ways to reduce anxiety and stress during a coronavirus epidemic.…”

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“…Therefore, effective interventions to reduce fear and anxiety seem necessary. 13 Researchers have found effective ways to reduce anxiety and stress during a coronavirus epidemic. These methods are as follows: staying away from watching, listening, and reading news constantly about the coronavirus,engaging in enjoyable activities (such as reading books, cooking, and practicing playing an instrument); taking care of the body through adequate sleep, a healthy diet; avoiding of drugs and alcohol; performing techniques such as muscle relaxation, deep conscious breathing, and yoga; connecting with friends and trusted people through social media; and talking to them about worries and feelings.…”

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Effectiveness of progressive muscle relaxation technique on anxiety caused by Covid‐19 in pregnant women: A randomized clinical trial

Zendehdel

Elyasi

Jahanfar

et al. 2022

Neuropsychopharm Rep

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Aim: To determine the effectiveness of the progressive muscle relaxation (PMR) technique on anxiety caused by Covid-19 in pregnant women under the auspices of comprehensive health service centers in the nineteenth district of Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Method: This study is a randomized clinical trial. A total of 126 pregnant women were randomly allocated to the intervention group (N = 63) and control group (N = 63). All participants completed demographic questionnaires and the Corona Disease Anxiety Scale electronically. The intervention was held in six sessions through Sky Room (three times a week). It consisted of training and practicing the PMR. The intervention group was re-evaluated with the related questionnaires immediately after the intervention and 2 weeks later, and the control group 2 and 4 weeks after the baseline.Results: There was a significant difference between the control and intervention groups at the baseline (P = .05). Nevertheless, analysis of variance test results showed that the difference between the intervention and control groups was found to be significantly different statistically; (22.92 ± 6.07) for intervention versus (28.13 ± 6.93) for control, with the second follow up (P = .01). Conclusions:Progressive muscle relaxation is used as a useful intervention to reduce anxiety in pregnant women during coronavirus pandemics educated and recommended with more emphasis and sensitivity in pregnancy care by healthcare providers.

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“…The COVID-19 pandemic hit nations hard, forcing governments and individuals to take unprecedented measures to contain the spread of the disease (e.g., Henríquez et al, 2020;Giuntella et al, 2021). Several studies confirm the pandemic has worsened the overall mental health (see Huang, 2020;Marques de Miranda et al, 2020;Achterberg et al, 2021;Daly and Robinson, 2021b;de Figueiredo et al, 2021;Varma et al, 2021 for a brief account). The way in which the mental health has been impacted comes from distress factors like fear of contracting the disease and concerns about the health, unemployment, subsistence, stay-at-home orders, and prolonged social isolation of the relatives (Pietrabissa and Simpson, 2020;Daly and Robinson, 2021b;Lavigne-Cerván et al, 2021;Varma et al, 2021).…”

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Negative Perception of the COVID-19 Pandemic Is Dropping: Evidence From Twitter Posts

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The COVID-19 pandemic hit hard society, strongly affecting the emotions of the people and wellbeing. It is difficult to measure how the pandemic has affected the sentiment of the people, not to mention how people responded to the dramatic events that took place during the pandemic. This study contributes to this discussion by showing that the negative perception of the people of the COVID-19 pandemic is dropping. By negative perception, we mean the number of negative words the users of Twitter, a social media platform, employ in their online posts. Seen as aggregate, Twitter users are using less and less negative words as the pandemic evolves. The conclusion that the negative perception is dropping comes from a careful analysis we made in the contents of the COVID-19 Twitter chatter dataset, a comprehensive database accounting for more than 1 billion posts generated during the pandemic. We explore why the negativity of the people decreases, making connections with psychological traits such as psychophysical numbing, reappraisal, suppression, and resilience. In particular, we show that the negative perception decreased intensively when the vaccination campaign started in the USA, Canada, and the UK and has remained to decrease steadily since then. This finding led us to conclude that vaccination plays a key role in dropping the negativity of the people, thus promoting their psychological wellbeing.

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Lessening Anxiety, Panic, and Complacency in Pandemics

Cited by 6 publications

References 146 publications

Collective Emotions during the COVID-19 Outbreak

Collective Emotions during the COVID-19 Outbreak

Effectiveness of progressive muscle relaxation technique on anxiety caused by Covid‐19 in pregnant women: A randomized clinical trial

Negative Perception of the COVID-19 Pandemic Is Dropping: Evidence From Twitter Posts

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