Coronaphobia: Fear and the 2019-nCoV outbreak

By G. Asmundson, Steven Taylor. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 2020

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Adolescent psychiatric disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown (2020, neutral): “The COVID-19 pandemic is having a psychological impact on individuals (Asmundson and Taylor, 2020; Li et al., 2020).”
Stress, anxiety, and depression levels in the initial stage of the COVID-19 outbreak in a population sample in the northern Spain. (2020, neutral): “< 14 de Marzo (n = 241; M = 0,46; DT = 1,00) 30 (9,5) 25 (7,1) 9 (2,4) 14 (3,8)”
The COVID-19 anxiety syndrome scale: Development and psychometric properties (2020, neutral): “The clinical benefits of being able to identify the COVID-19 anxiety syndrome (avoidance, worry, checking and threat monitoring) may be of use during the current health crisis (Asmundson and Taylor, 2020).”
How health anxiety influences responses to viral outbreaks like COVID-19: What all decision-makers, health authorities, and health care professionals need to know (2020, methodology): “As per our recent recommendations (Asmundson & Taylor, 2020) , more research is needed to understand how individual difference factors, including health anxiety, specifically impact behaviour in response to COVID-19.”
Psychosocial impact of COVID-19 (2020, neutral): “These states of affairs certify the raw potential of social media during a public health disaster [36].”
Development and initial validation of the COVID Stress Scales (2020, neutral): “…indeed, while several measures of COVID-19-related fears and anxieties have recently emerged (e.g., Ahorsu et al., 2020; McKay, Yang, Elhai, & Asmundson, 2020), they tend to be unidimensional (i.e., focused on general fear aspects of COVID-19) and are based on limited psychometric evaluation.”
Prevalence of depression during the COVID-19 outbreak: A meta-analysis of community-based studies (2020, background): “…of depression during the COVID-19 outbreak: A m to seek help either for physical or mental symptoms (Lei et al., 2020); thus, and similar to anxiety (Asmundson & Taylor, 2020), depression can become a barrier to rational medical and mental health interventions during pandemics (Wang, Pan, Wan,…”