Assessing the anxiety level of Iranian general population during COVID-19 outbreak

By Amir Moghanibashi-Mansourieh. Asian Journal of Psychiatry, 2020

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Abstract This study is aimed to assess the anxiety level of Iranian general population during COVID-19 outbreak. The online questionnaire surveyed 10,754 individuals from the general population of 31 provinces of Iran who completed the questionnaire on social networks from March 1 to March 9, 2020. The inferential statistics suggests that the level of anxiety was higher among women (95 % CI [0.1, 81.36], p < 0.001), people who more followed corona-related news (p < 0.001) and the age group of 21–40 years (p < 0.001). Ultimately, the level of anxiety was significantly higher among people who had at least one family member, relative, or friend who contracted COVID-19 disease (95 % CI [1.2, 35.03], p < 0.001). The health care system should adopt a package of psychosocial interventions to reduce the anxiety of high risk groups.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Economics and Econometrics, Modeling and Simulation

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Prevalence of stress, anxiety, depression among the general population during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2020, positive): “Most of the news published on COVID-19 are distressing, and sometimes news are associated with rumors, which is why anxiety levels rise when a person is constantly exposed to COVID-19 news [21].”
The changes in the effects of social media use of Cypriots due to COVID-19 pandemic (2020, positive): “When the recent research related to COVID-19 is examined, Moghanibashi-Mansouriehab [54] mentioned that anxiety levels related to COVID-19 are higher within the people who follow more news.”
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on mental health in the general population: A systematic review (2020, neutral): “…symptoms ranging from 6.33% to 50.9% (Ahmed et al., 2020; Gao et al., 2020; GonzálezSanguino et al., 2020; Huang and Zhao, 2020; Lei et al., 2020; Mazza et al., 2020; Moghanibashi-Mansourieh, 2020; OzamizEtxebarria et al., 2020; Özdin and Özdin, 2020; Wang et al., 2020a; Wang et al., 2020b).”
The effect of age, gender, income, work, and physical activity on mental health during coronavirus disease (COVID-19) lockdown in Austria (2020, positive): “Women and younger adults significantly felt more anxiety about COVID-19 according to a study from Iran [17].”
Prevalence of mental health problems during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2020, neutral): “Most of the studies (62 of 66) were for the Chinese population, although there was one each from Iran (Moghanibashi-Mansourieh, 2020), Jordan (Naser et al., 2020), Singapore (Tan et al., 2020), and India (Kazmi, 2020).”
The psychological and mental impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on medical staff and general public – A systematic review and meta-analysis (2020, neutral): “The overall prevalence and 95% confidence interval of the psychological distress was pooled with random effects models using the Metaprop module in STATA (Bacigalupo et al., 2018; Nyaga et al., 2014).”