ArticleJournal of affective disorders2022
Closed doors: Predictors of stress, anxiety, depression, and PTSD during the onset of COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil.
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- Impact of long COVID-19 on posttraumatic stress disorder as modified by health literacy: an observational study in Vietnam.Osong public health and research perspectives · 2024Article
- Explainable Depression Detection Based on Facial Expression Using LSTM on Attentional Intermediate Feature Fusion with Label Smoothing.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Factors Associated with Symptoms of Posttraumatic Stress in Mothers During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Maternal and child health journal · 2023Article
- Caregiver Perceptions of Children's and Adolescents' Psychosocial Functioning During the Stringent COVID-19 Lockdown Restrictions in Shanghai: Cross-sectional Study.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2023Article
- Perceptions, maltreatment and religion as predictors of the psycho-emotional impact on nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic.Revista brasileira de enfermagem · 2023Article
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- More than a year of pandemic: Longitudinal assessment of anxiety and depressive symptoms in the argentine general population during the COVID-19 outbreak.Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress · 2022Article
- Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Resilience in Medical Students: A Multicenter Study from 13 Latin American Countries.Chronic stress (Thousand Oaks, Calif.)Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe rise in mental health problems in the population directly or indirectly because of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is a major concern. The aim of this study was to investigate and compare independent predictors of symptoms of stress, anxiety, depression, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in Brazilians one month after the implementation of measures of social distancing.
methodsThis cross-sectional study was performed using a web-based survey. The Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale (DASS-21) and PTSD Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5) were the outcomes. Data were gathered regarding demographics, social distancing, economic problems, exposure to the news of the pandemic, psychiatric history, sleep disturbances, traumatic situations, and substance use. The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test - Consumption (AUDIT-C) was also administered. The predictors of the symptoms were investigated using hierarchical multiple linear regression.
resultsOf a sample of 3587 participants, approximately two-thirds considered that their mental health worsened after the beginning of the social restriction measures. The most important predictors of the symptoms investigated were the intensity of the distress related to the news of the pandemic, younger age, current psychiatric diagnosis, trouble sleeping, emotional abuse or violence, and economic problems.
conclusionsThese results confirmed the hypothesis that the pandemic impacted the mental health of the population and indicated that the level of distress related to the news was the most important predictor of psychological suffering.
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