Epidemic of COVID-19 in China and associated Psychological Problems

By Md Zahir Ahmed, Oli Ahmed, Zhou Aibao, Hanbin Sang, Liu Siyu, Akbaruddin Ahmad. Asian Journal of Psychiatry, 2020

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The world is experiencing pandemic of the COVID-19 now, a RNA virus that spread out from Wuhan, China. Two countries, China first and later Italy, have gone to full lock down due to rapid spread of this virus. Till to date, no epidemiological data on mental health problems due to outbreak of the COVID-19 and mass isolation were not available. To meet this need, the present study was undertaken to assess the mental health status of Chinese people. An online survey was conducted on a sample of 1074 Chinese people, majority of whom from Hubei province. Lack of adequate opportunities to conduct face to face interview, anxiety, depression, mental well-being and alcohol consumption behavior were assessed via self-reported measures. Results showed higher rate of anxiety, depression, hazardous and harmful alcohol use, and lower mental wellbeing than usual ratio. Results also revealed that young people aged 21–40 years are in more vulnerable position in terms of their mental health conditions and alcohol use. To address mental health crisis during this epidemic, it is high time to implement multi-faceted approach (i.e. forming multidisciplinary mental health team, providing psychiatric treatments and other mental health services, utilizing online counseling platforms, rehabilitation program, ensuring certain care for vulnerable groups, etc.).

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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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, background): “Recent studies have similarly shown that COVID-19 affects mental health outcomes such as anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress symptoms [22, 24, 31].”
Mental health of college students during the COVID-19 epidemic in China (2020, neutral): “, which fueled the fear about the virus (Ahmed et al., 2020).”
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Depression and anxiety among university students during the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh: A web-based cross-sectional survey (2020, background): “Hence, many countries implemented a range of anti-epidemic measures, such as restricting travel for foreign nationals [3], closing down public spaces, and shutting down the entire transit system [4, 5], to contain the transmission of the highly contagious infections from human-to-human.”
The role of psychological flexibility in the context of COVID-19: Associations with depression, anxiety, and insomnia (2021, background): “We know from general population studies in China (Ahmed et al., 2020; Gao et al., 2020; Wang, Di, Ye, & Wei, 2020; Wang, Pan, et al., 2020), Italy (Mazza et al.”
How is COVID-19 pandemic impacting mental health of children and adolescents? (2020, neutral): “Four studies [6,8,10,11] found that adolescents are generally less depressed and stressed than adults, although results are similar for depression when compared with the ≥50 years-old groups [11].”