ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2022
Telework and Mental Health during COVID-19.
Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Teleworking Effects on Mental Health-A Systematic Review and a Research Agenda.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Pooled it
- Experiences of working from home: umbrella review.Journal of occupational health · 2024Pooled it
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- The Global Landscape of Neuropsychiatric Prescribing Practices of Nurses: A Scoping Review.International journal of mental health nursing · 2025Article
- Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on long-term sickness absences due to mental disorders in public servants: a retrospective observational study.BMC public health · 2025Observational
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- Changes and their effects on working and daily life time use allocation between work-from-home and office work days during the telework period: insights from the survey in Japan.Frontiers in sociology · 2025Article
- A mixed-method of the happy-productive: wellbeing and performance patterns of remote workers in Brazil.Frontiers in sociology · 2025Article
- Anxiety, depression, working from home and health-related behaviours during COVID-19: Structural equation modelling and serial mediation of associations with angina, heart attacks and stroke.Journal of health psychology · 2024Article
- Follow-up of telemedicine mental health interventions amid COVID-19 pandemic.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- How Do COVID-19 Risk, Life-Safety Risk, Job Insecurity, and Work-Family Conflict Affect Miner Performance? Health-Anxiety and Job-Anxiety Perspectives.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Stress and depressive symptoms in university students in Hong Kong under the pandemic: Moderating effect of positive psychological attributes.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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- Psychological Research on Sleep Problems and Adjustment of Working Hours during Teleworking in the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Exploratory Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- The Impact of Working from Home on Mental Health: A Cross-Sectional Study of Canadian Worker's Mental Health during the Third Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Influence of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Quality of Life, Mental Health, and Level of Physical Activity in Colombian University Workers: A Longitudinal Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Gamification-based intervention for enhancing team effectiveness and coping flexibility: Randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Work schedule flexibility and teleworking were not good together during COVID-19 when testing their effects on work overload and mental health.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
COVID-19 has come to change societal organization. Due to lockdowns, work typologies have been rethought and telework has gained strength. However, the impact of the constant use of information and communication technologies on the mental health of workers needs to be considered. We aimed to investigate the impact of different work conditions on mental health, to which end we disseminated an online questionnaire during lockdowns to assess imagined surveillance, mobile maintenance expectation, communication overload, feelings of entrapment, depression, anxiety, stress, and flourishing in four groups (employed in telework, employed on-site, employed in layoff, and unemployed). We computed mean comparisons and serial mediations. We show that depression and anxiety were more prevalent in women; parents flourished more than people without children; and people with a higher level of education feel more entrapment. Crucially, we show that telework was associated with imagined surveillance and communication overload, which mediated the association with mobile maintenance expectations and entrapment (which was exacerbated by parenthood), impacting mental health and the quality of life. However, this was also partially observed in the remaining work conditions. Finally, flourishing worked as a protector against mental health issues in all work conditions. We discuss this given the massification of digital migration.
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