A longitudinal study on the mental health of general population during the COVID-19 epidemic in China

By Cuiyan Wang, R. Pan, X. Wan, Y. Tan, Linkang Xu, R. McIntyre, Faith Choo, B. Tran, R. Ho, V. Sharma and 1 more. Brain, behavior, and immunity, 2020

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Highlights • A significant reduction in psychological impact 4 weeks after COVID outbreak.• The mean scores of respondents in both surveys were above PTSD cut-offs.• Female gender, physical symptoms associated with a higher psychological impact.• Hand hygiene, mask-wearing & confidence in doctors reduced psychological impact.• Online trauma-focused psychotherapy may be helpful to public during COVID-19.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Economics and Econometrics, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/06b662dc73e1c4ffb548d0f5cf68f310810207ec

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Unusual purchasing behavior during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic: The stimulus-organism-response approach (2020, background): “Unusual retail consumer behavior, such as hoarding toilet paper and food, was reported all over the world during March 2020 when the COVID-19 virus escalated into a pandemic (Miri et al., 2020; Wang et al., 2020).”
Anxiety and depression in COVID-19 survivors: Role of inflammatory and clinical predictors (2020, neutral): “Finally, younger patients showed higher levels of depression and sleep disturbances, in agreement with previous studies describing a worse psychological impact of COVID-19 pandemic in younger people (Wang et al., 2020).”
Gender-related differences in the psychological impact of confinement as a consequence of COVID-19 in Spain (2020, background): “…levels of stress and anxiety, insomnia and irritability and loneliness (Balluerka et al. 2020; Brooks, et al., 2020; Bu, Steptoe, & Fancourt, 2020; González-Sanguino et al., 2020; Ko et al. 2020; Li et al., 2020; Lima et al., 2020; Wang et al. 2020a; Romero et al. 2020; Shelef & Zalsman, 2020).”
How is COVID-19 pandemic impacting mental health of children and adolescents? (2020, positive): “Other mental health scale utilized were stress levels, through the Stress Subscale from Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS-21) [8] and Coping Styles, that were measured by the Simplified Coping Style Questionnaire (SCSQ) [9].”
Do psychiatric patients experience more psychiatric symptoms during COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown? A case-control study with service and research implications for immunopsychiatry (2020, neutral): “DASS was previously used in research related to SARS (McAlonan et al., 2007) and COVID-19 (Wang et al., 2020a,b).”
Longitudinal changes in mental health and the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from the UK Household Longitudinal Study (2020, methodology): “…to assess downturns in their mental health (Holmes et al., 2020), snowball sampling strategies implemented during the outbreak of COVID-19 (Wang et al., 2020), use of cross-sectional commercial panel surveys rather than existing probability-based longitudinal samples that better represent…”
Loneliness and Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Study Among Dutch Older Adults (2020, neutral): “A longitudinal Chinese study (Wang et al., 2020) shows a significant reduction in depression, anxiety, and stress 4 weeks after the COVID-19 outbreak, although levels of distress were still high.”
Mental health consequences during the initial stage of the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) in Spain (2020, background): “This results are similar to the results of Wang et al. (2020), and Kang et al. (2020), and also to another study carried out in the Basque Country, where they found a greater psychological impact on younger people and those with previous illnesses (Dosil-Santamaria et al., 2020).”
Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Big Five Personality on Subjective and Psychological Well-Being (2020, neutral): “Several studies have assessed well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic either cross-sectionally (e.g., Evans et al., 2020; Mazza et al., 2020; Qian & Yahara, 2020; Zhao et al., 2020) or longitudinally (e.g., Recchi et al., 2020; Wang et al., 2020).”