Abstract:The current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic elicits a vast amount of anxiety. In the current study, we investigated how anxiety related to COVID-19 is associated with support for and compliance with governmental hygiene measures, and how these are influenced by populist attitudes, anger at the government, and conspiracy mentalities. We conducted an online survey in April 2020 in four different countries (Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, and the UK; N = 2,031) using a cross-sectional design. Result… Show more
“…At the public policy level, maladaptive responses to the government actions to mitigate the viral spread were associated with fears in all four countries, which is not surprising, as fear/anxiety is arguably the central emotion in an individual’s response to the pandemic [ 23 , 32 , 51 , 52 ]. In line with the observation that the more anxious people are, the angrier and more extreme in their world views they may become [ 53 ], our results show that the governmentally imposed mitigation efforts have also caused anger and resistance among some patients in all four countries. Indeed, adherence to all rules of social distancing appears highly challenging for the vast majority of participants [ 54 ].…”
The COVID-19 outbreak has raised questions about how vulnerable groups experience the pandemic. Research that focuses on the view of individuals with pre-existing mental health conditions is still limited, and so are cross-country comparative surveys. We gathered our sample of qualitative data during the first lockdown after governmental measures against the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus came into force in Austria, Czechia, Germany, and Slovakia. A total of n = 1690 psychotherapists from four middle European countries answered the question of how the COVID-19 pandemic was addressed in sessions by their patients during the early stage of unprecedented public health conditions. We employed a descriptive qualitative methodology to determine themes following levels of the social-ecological model (SEM) regarding how the COVID-19 pandemic affected patients. At the public policy level, stressful environmental conditions concerned the governmental mitigation efforts. At the level of community/society, reported key themes were employment, restricted access to educational and health facilities, socioeconomic consequences, and the pandemic itself. Key themes at the interpersonal level regarded forced proximity, the possibility of infection of loved ones, childcare, and homeschooling. Key themes at the individual level were the possibility of contracting COVID-19, having to stay at home/isolation, and a changing environment. Within the SEM framework, adaptive and maladaptive responses to these stressors were reported, with more similarities than differences between the countries. A quantification of word stems showed that the maladaptive reactions predominated.
“…At the public policy level, maladaptive responses to the government actions to mitigate the viral spread were associated with fears in all four countries, which is not surprising, as fear/anxiety is arguably the central emotion in an individual’s response to the pandemic [ 23 , 32 , 51 , 52 ]. In line with the observation that the more anxious people are, the angrier and more extreme in their world views they may become [ 53 ], our results show that the governmentally imposed mitigation efforts have also caused anger and resistance among some patients in all four countries. Indeed, adherence to all rules of social distancing appears highly challenging for the vast majority of participants [ 54 ].…”
The COVID-19 outbreak has raised questions about how vulnerable groups experience the pandemic. Research that focuses on the view of individuals with pre-existing mental health conditions is still limited, and so are cross-country comparative surveys. We gathered our sample of qualitative data during the first lockdown after governmental measures against the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus came into force in Austria, Czechia, Germany, and Slovakia. A total of n = 1690 psychotherapists from four middle European countries answered the question of how the COVID-19 pandemic was addressed in sessions by their patients during the early stage of unprecedented public health conditions. We employed a descriptive qualitative methodology to determine themes following levels of the social-ecological model (SEM) regarding how the COVID-19 pandemic affected patients. At the public policy level, stressful environmental conditions concerned the governmental mitigation efforts. At the level of community/society, reported key themes were employment, restricted access to educational and health facilities, socioeconomic consequences, and the pandemic itself. Key themes at the interpersonal level regarded forced proximity, the possibility of infection of loved ones, childcare, and homeschooling. Key themes at the individual level were the possibility of contracting COVID-19, having to stay at home/isolation, and a changing environment. Within the SEM framework, adaptive and maladaptive responses to these stressors were reported, with more similarities than differences between the countries. A quantification of word stems showed that the maladaptive reactions predominated.
“…Sadness is considered by numerous authors to be a core symptom of depression 42 . The dimensions of anger related to the pandemic include anger at the government and conspiracy mentalities but also anger at those who fail to comply with government hygiene measures to contain the virus 43 . Figure 5 Emotion analysis of non-neutral tweets performed by syuzhet .…”
The outbreak of COVID-19 forced a dramatic shift in education, from in-person learning to an increased use of distance learning over the past 2 years. Opinions and sentiments regarding this switch from traditional to remote classes can be tracked in real time in microblog messages promptly shared by Twitter users, who constitute a large and ever-increasing number of individuals today. Given this framework, the present study aims to investigate sentiments and topics related to distance learning in Italy from March 2020 to November 2021. A two-step sentiment analysis was performed using the VADER model and the syuzhet package to understand the overall sentiments and emotions. A dynamic latent Dirichlet allocation model (DLDA) was built to identify commonly discussed topics in tweets and their evolution over time. The results show a modest majority of negative opinions, which shifted over time until the trend reversed. Among the eight emotions of the syuzhet package, ‘trust’ was the most positive emotion observed in the tweets, while ‘fear’ and ‘sadness’ were the top negative emotions. Our analysis also identified three topics: (1) requests for support measures for distance learning, (2) concerns about distance learning and its application, and (3) anxiety about the government decrees introducing the red zones and the corresponding restrictions. People’s attitudes changed over time. The concerns about distance learning and its future applications (topic 2) gained importance in the latter stages of 2021, while the first and third topics, which were ranked highly at first, started a steep descent in the last part of the period. The results indicate that even if current distance learning ends, the Italian people are concerned that any new emergency will bring distance learning back into use again.
“…El liderazgo y trabajo en equipo, contribuye también a mantener el apoyo emocional para no caer en situaciones de enojo, producto de la ansiedad, por desconocimiento de abordaje de la enfermedad 8 . Siendo necesario aplicar estrategias para proteger a los empleados de reacciones exageradas y pánico innecesario en un momento de crisis global en virtud de las competencias psicológicas de sus supervisores y empleadores 9 .…”
Antecedentes: La gestión de los servicios de enfermería frente al COVID-19, ha sido uno de los procesos hospitalarios de mayor dinamismo durante el período por pandemia, por cuanto es el personal encargado de aplicar el tratamiento médico a los pacientes en primera línea de batalla. Objetivo: Analizar la gestión de los servicios de enfermería frente al COVID-19 en un hospital público de la provincia de Manabí – Ecuador. Metodología: De tipo descriptiva observacional no experimental. Resultados: El factor con mayor importancia de los encuestados, se radicó en la actualización profesional durante el período inicial de pandemia por COVID-19, considerándose como un elemento fundamental para abordar la atención del paciente, seguido del trabajo en equipo. Conclusión: Es necesario fomentar estrategias para mantener en alto nivel de eficacia al personal durante su estancia en cuidados intermedios e intensivos en relación a cuidado personal, trabajo en equipo, manejo de salud mental.
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