ArticleJournal of affective disorders2021
Social Isolation and Anxiety Disorder During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Lockdown in China.
Article in Journal of affective disorders, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
20 citing papers in PubMed, 42 citations in OpenAlex.
- The effectiveness of a health education intervention to reduce anxiety in quarantined COVID-19 patients: a randomized controlled trial.BMC public health · 2023Trial
- Temporal Dynamics of Influenza-Associated Anxiety Symptom Linguistic Markers on Weibo (2023-2024): Observational Study.JMIR infodemiology · 2026Observational
- Thirty-Year Trends in Anxiety Disorders Incidence Across China, Japan, and Republic of Korea: An Age-Period-Cohort Analysis Based on GBD 2021.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Will Public Health Emergencies Affect Compensatory Consumption Behavior? Evidence from Emotional Eating Perspective.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The emotions of Chinese netizens toward the opening-up policies for COVID-19: panic, trust, and acceptance.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- The impact of social isolation on smartphone addiction among college students: the multiple mediating effects of loneliness and COVID-19 anxiety.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Anxiety disorders among children and adolescents during COVID-19 lockdowns and school closures: a cross-sectional study in Kuwait.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Article
- Trajectories of psychological distress over multiple COVID-19 lockdowns in Australia.SSM - population health · 2023Article
- Validation of the Chinese version of the COVID-19 Phobia Scale among Chinese college students.Heliyon · 2023Article
- Editorial: A moving target: exploring if, when, how, and why promoting quality of life counts among children and adolescents during COVID-19 pandemic.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Editorial: Psychometrics in psychiatry 2022: anxiety and stress disorders.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Psychometric Analysis of the Quarantine Coping Strategies Scale (Q-COPE) in the Spanish Language.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Impacts of COVID-19 Prevention and Control Measures on Asthma-Related Hospital and Outpatient Visits in Yichang, China.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Post-traumatic growth in people experiencing high post-traumatic stress during the COVID-19 pandemic: The protective role of psychological flexibility.Journal of contextual behavioral science · 2022Article
- Mental health and psychological resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-cultural comparison of Japan, Malaysia, China, and the U.S.Journal of affective disorders · 2022Article
- The trajectories of anxiety and depression during the COVID-19 pandemic and the protective role of psychological flexibility: A four-wave longitudinal study.Journal of affective disorders · 2022Article
- Generalized anxiety disorder during COVID-19 in Canada: Gender-specific association of COVID-19 misinformation exposure, precarious employment, and health behavior change.Journal of affective disorders · 2022Article
- Longitudinal study of mental health changes in residents affected by an initial outbreak of COVID-19 in China.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Changes in Childhood Immunizations and Intermittent Preventive Malaria Treatment in a Peripheral, Referral Immunization Center During the First 12 Months of COVID-19 Pandemic in Sierra Leone, Western Africa.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown measures have had a profound impact on the emotions, anxiety, and mental health of affected communities. Despite this, there is a lack of knowledge about the possible generational and geographical differences in the effects on the mental health of individuals. This study examines the impact of COVID-19 related quarantine on symptoms of generalized anxiety disorders (GAD) among parents and children (N = 4503). It also compares the outcomes of residents from the initial COVID-19 epicenter of Wuhan to those in surrounding areas. Subgroup analyses were conducted by child and parent samples, and by Wuhan city and other cities in the Hubei province. Propensity score radius matching and ordinary least squares regressions were used to examine the relationship between quarantine and GAD symptoms. Results showed that quarantine had more psychological impact on parents than children, regardless of geographic location. Parents that experienced quarantine in Wuhan city, reported a significantly higher level of symptoms of GAD than those that did not. Parents from other cities showed no such difference. For both children and parents, interpersonal communication about COVID-19 and social media exposure to pandemic-related information were linked to GAD symptoms. Targeted policies and interventions are needed to address the psychological impacts of COVID-19 lockdown.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.