SynthesisJournal of affective disorders2021
Mass quarantine and mental health during COVID-19: A meta-analysis.
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- The effectiveness of a health education intervention to reduce anxiety in quarantined COVID-19 patients: a randomized controlled trial.BMC public health · 2023Trial
- The effect of duloxetine on mechanistic pain profiles, cognitive factors and clinical pain in patients with painful knee osteoarthritis-A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover study.European journal of pain (London, England) · 2022Trial
- Psychosocial stress from pre- to post-pandemic times: latent class mixed model analysis using data from a German cohort.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2026Article
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- Mental health symptoms and associated factors for general population at the stable, recurrence, and end-of-emergency stages of the COVID-19 pandemic: a repeated national cross-sectional study.Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences · 2025Article
- Psychological distress across the deployment cycle: comparing pre- and peri-pandemic trajectories.BMC public health · 2025Article
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- Chronic post-COVID neuropsychiatric symptoms persisting more than 1 year after infection during the 'Omicron wave'.BJPsych open · 2025Article
- ICT communication with family/friends and its associations with mental health and insomnia in COVID-19 patients during hospital quarantine: a cross-sectional study in Shenzhen, China.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- Comparing the psychological impact of the Shanghai lockdown on local and non-local college students: an explanatory sequential mixed method approach.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2025Article
- Stability and change in life satisfaction in Japan before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.Applied psychology. Health and well-being · 2025Article
- The experience and influence of youth in China in coping with stressful life events during the post-COVID-19 pandemic era: a qualitative study.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Longitudinal relationships between daily activities, depressive symptoms, anxiety, and suicidality during the COVID-19 pandemic: a three-wave cross-lagged study.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Unmasking the psychological impact of the early COVID-19 pandemic in young adults: results from a cross-sectional online survey.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
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Abstract
To reveal the complex relationships between quarantine and mental health during COVID-19, a meta-analysis was conducted involving 34 articles and a total sample size of 134,061. As the relationship between quarantine and mental health was found to be affected by the sampling objects and national factors, a random-effects model was applied for the meta-analysis. First, a heterogeneity test and sensitivity analysis were conducted to determine whether there was heterogeneity in the samples, after which a funnel chart, Rosenthal's Classic Fail-safe N test and Egger's test were applied to further determine whether there was publication bias in the included samples. Finally, a sub-group test was used to explore whether the sampling group and the country of origin had a moderating effect on the relationship between quarantine and mental health, which revealed that the relationship between quarantine and mental health was regulated and influenced by the sampled objects but was not affected by the country categories. The results indicated that: COVID-19 quarantine had varying impacts on individual anxiety, depression, and psychological stress; different groups had different regulatory effects on the relationship between quarantine and mental health; and country of origin had no moderating effect on quarantine and psychology.
backgroundCOVID-19 is the most important topic in 2020, and mass quarantine is the measures for pandemic prevention and control around the world since 2020. To explore the relationships between mass quarantine and mental health during COVID-19, a meta-analysis was conducted involving 28 articles and a total sample size of 134,061.
methodAs the relationship between mass quarantine and mental health was found to be affected by the sampling objects and national factors, a random-effects model was applied for the meta-analysis. First, a heterogeneity test and sensitivity analysis were conducted to determine whether there was heterogeneity in the samples, after which a funnel chart, Rosenthal's Classic Fail-safe N test and Egger's test were applied to further determine whether there was publication bias in the included samples. Finally, a sub-group test was used to explore whether the sampling group and the country of origin had a moderating effect on the relationship between mass quarantine and mental health.
resultsCOVID-19 quarantine had varying impacts on individual anxiety, depression, and psychological stress; different groups had different regulatory effects on the relationship between quarantine and mental health; and country of origin had no moderating effect on quarantine and mental health.
conclusionsThis study employed a meta-analysis to examine the relationships between the COVID-19 pandemic mass quarantine measures and mental health factors such as anxiety, depression and stress, from which it was found that influence of quarantine on anxiety was stronger, the relationship between quarantine and mental health was affected by the sampled object, and there was no significant relationship between quarantine and country of origin in the sample population.
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