Prevalence and predictors of PTSS during COVID-19 outbreak in China hardest-hit areas: Gender differences matter

By Nianqi Liu, Fan Zhang, Cun Wei, Yanpu Jia, Zhilei Shang, Luna Sun, Lili Wu, Zhuoer Sun, Yaoguang Zhou, Yan Wang and 1 more. Psychiatry Research, 2020

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Highlights • The prevalence of posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) in China hardest-hit areas a month after the COVID-19 outbreak was 7%.• Hierarchical regression analysis and non-parametric test suggested that women reported significant higher PTSS in the domains of re-experiencing, negative alterations in cognition or mood, and hyper-arousal.• Participants with better sleep quality or less frequency of early awakenings reported lower PTSS.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

• Risk Perceptions and Psychological Effects During the Italian COVID-19 Emergency (2020, background): “All these factors have contributed to great psychological distress and have forced people to look for new strategies to cope with and adjust to the emergency (Flesia et al., 2020; Liu et al., 2020; Losada-Baltar et al., 2020; Orrù et al., 2020; Polizzi et al., 2020; Wang et al., 2020).”
• Follow-up of adults with noncritical COVID-19 two months after symptom onset (2020, neutral): “These complex tardive psychological disorders have already been shown after acute respiratory distress syndrome [25,26].”
• Levels and predictors of anxiety, depression and health anxiety during COVID-19 pandemic in Turkish society: The importance of gender (2020, background): “Female gender has been identified as the most potent predictor of post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms after pandemics (Liu et al., 2020).”
• The development and initial tests for the psychometric properties of the COVID-19 Phobia Scale (C19P-S) (2020, neutral): “…depression, and acute stress disorder among both the healthcare personnel and the public (e.g., Hu, Su, Qiao, Zhu, & Zhou, 2020; Huang et al., 2020; Huang & Liu, 2020; Kang et al., 2020; Li et al., 2020; Liu, Yang, et al., 2020; Liu, Zhang, et al., 2020; Sun et al., 2020; Xiang et al., 2020).”
• Dealing with sleep problems during home confinement due to the COVID‐19 outbreak: Practical recommendations from a task force of the European CBT‐I Academy (2020, background): “Those with better sleep quality and fewer early morning awakenings also reported less PTSD symptoms during the COVID-19 outbreak (Liu et al., 2020).”