Anxiety regarding contracting COVID-19 related to interoceptive anxiety sensations: The moderating role of disgust propensity and sensitivity

On the Nature of Fear and Anxiety Triggered by COVID-19

“…Fear of the unknown Mertens et al, 2020Satici et al, 2020b Bradbury-Jones and Isham, 2020 Casale and Flett, 2020King et al, 2020Lin, 2020Mertens et al, 2020Thombs et al, 2020Yang et al, 2020Hypochondriasis Akgün et al, 2020Asmundson and Taylor, 2020Banerjee, 2020McKay et al, 2020Rajkumar, 2020Schimmenti et al, 2020Thombs et al, 2020Vanni et al, 2020Wong et al, 2020Disgust Brooks et al, 2020McKay et al, 2020Mota et al, 2020Satici et al, 2020bTroisi, 2020 Information-driven Ali, 2020 Taylor, 2020 Erku et al, 2020 Landau-Wells and Saxe, 2020 Sefidbakht et al, 2020Compliance Brooks et al, 2020Fernandez, 2020Harper et al, 2020Jørgensen et al, 2020Mertens et al, 2020Olesen et al, 2020Presti et al, 2020 of several specialties such as those who perform or participate in head and neck region examinations (e.g., Ota and Asada, 2020), dental and oral medicine (Meng et al, 2020), ophthalmologists (e.g., Shabto et al, 2020), etc. Delayed access to hospital care for emergency conditions deriving from workers' multiple roles adds to the panoply of stressful conditions, affecting many with unrelated problems such as children's occasional infections, acute onset of chronic conditions, endocrine disorders (e.g., diabetes), or surgical needs (e.g., appendicitis; Lazzerini et al, 2020).…”

“…Hypochondriasis is named as illness anxiety disorder in the DSM-5 manual (American Psychiatric Association, 2013) and can be likely related to hospital emergency flow of people who misinterpret their bodily sensations as signs of potential infection (Asmundson and Taylor, 2020). Individuals prone to monitor physical sensations would benefit from education regarding the potential for false alarms regarding these interpretations by decreasing anxiety (McKay et al, 2020). Anxiety might lead to obsessive use of medications like hydroxychloroquine, which has recently emerged in guidelines for COVID-19 (Banerjee, 2020).…”

What could we learn from SARS when facing the mental health issues related to the COVID-19 outbreak? A nationwide cohort study in Taiwan

“…The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak not only causes deaths and adverse consequences on the physical health 1,2 , but also induces a global mental health crisis, including psychiatric morbidity and suicide, in the patients, the health care professionals, and the general population [3][4][5] . In the meantime, in May 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic seems not, as yet, to be ameliorated 6 .…”

Understanding and reducing the fear of COVID-19

“…Authentic news reporting can increase fears because the threat is novel, unseen, and potentially fatal, especially to those most vulnerable groups in society: the aged and the sick. The very stress caused by the COVID-19 pandemic among members of the population also reduces the ability to absorb anything more than very simplistic messages, and of course certain sections of society are more susceptible to fear and panic than others-those prone to anxiety and those with underlying mental health conditions (McKay et al, 2020).…”