Emotional well-being, mental health awareness, and prevention of suicide: Covid-19 pandemic and digital psychiatry

Kakunje, Anil; Mithur, Rajesh; Kishor, M

doi:10.4103/amhs.amhs_98_20

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“…The current concerns and anxieties about COVID-19 may cause, contribute to, or worsen psychological symptoms in individuals such as depression, increase obsessive-compulsive (OC) traits and insomnia (Aardema, 2020;Chew et al, 2020;Kakunje, Mithur, & Kishor, 2020;Machado et al, 2020;Rogers et al, 2020). The first academic-year nursing students are more prone to develop various symptoms of these psychological problems, due to fear of the unknown and uncertainty.…”

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Fear of COVID-19 Pandemic, Obsessive-Compulsive Traits and Sleep Quality among First Academic Year Nursing Students, Alexandria University, Egypt.

Elsayed

Ghazi

2021

Egyptian Journal of Health Care

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It is now recognized that the uncertainty caused by the international COVID-19 pandemic can lead to excessive, intense, and repeated mental health problems such as obsessive-compulsive traits and disturbed sleep quality. These psychological responses affect the well-being of individuals and can persist long after the outbreak. Health care workers can be viewed as more vulnerable to these psychological consequences, particularity the younger students such as the first academic year nursing students. Thus, the present study aimed to determine and explore the impact of fear of COVID-19 on obsessive-compulsive traits and sleep quality among the first-academic year nursing students. Design: A descriptive correlational design was used in this study. Setting: The study was conducted at the Faculty of Nursing, Alexandria University, Egypt. Subjects: A representative sample of 275 first-year undergraduate students. Tools: Online web-based electronic questionnaires were used including A socio-demographic and Academic Data, FCV-19S, AOCS and ISI. Results: Results of the study revealed that 61.1% of the studied students had a moderate level of fear of COVID-19 pandemic and 8.7% of them had a severe level. As well, 35.3% of those students had a moderate level of obsessive-compulsive (OC) traits and 4.7% of them had a severe level of OC traits. In addition, 14.2% of them had a moderate level of insomnia during COVID-19 pandemic. Regression analysis indicates that fear of COVID-19 pandemic was a predictor of both obsessivecompulsive traits (P=0.000) and insomnia severity (P=0.052). Conclusion: level of fear of COVID-19 pandemic can predict the OC traits and insomnia severity levels among studied nursing students. Hence, early detection, picking up and effectively treating students who have intense fears of COVID 19 are emphasized before they evolve to more complex and enduring obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Immediate interventions via multidisciplinary teams, including academic mental health professionals, to the vulnerable group of students are recommended.

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Fear of COVID-19 Pandemic, Obsessive-Compulsive Traits and Sleep Quality among First Academic Year Nursing Students, Alexandria University, Egypt.

Elsayed

Ghazi

2021

Egyptian Journal of Health Care

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“…However, recent studies indicate that the MSLT is inadequate to delineate hypersomnia other than narcolepsy type 1. [2][3][4] Although several attempts using continuous PSG monitoring have been performed, [5][6][7] appropriate markers for idiopathic hypersomnia have not been established. 8 We performed 24-h PSG, standard PSG, and MSLT to understand the difference between the two aspects of sleepiness.…”

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“…1 Health-care workers are not only at higher risk of exposure to SARS-CoV-2 and increased workloads, 2 but also social isolation and rejection due to the high probability that they will come into contact with potentially infectious COVID-19 patients. 3 Social support has been recognized as a protective factor for mental health among health-care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. 4 However, social restrictions lead to reduced access to support from family and friends, and degrade social support systems, which can cause loneliness and depressed mood.…”

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Association between living with others and depressive symptoms in Japanese hospital workers during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Miki

Yamamoto

Inoue

et al. 2021

Psychiatry Clin Neurosci

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This Letter presents the findings of a cross-sectional study on the association between living with others and depressive symptoms among 1228 workers, aged 21-73 years, from a large hospital and its affiliated institute in Tokyo, 66.8% of whom had engaged in some sort of COVID-19-related work. The Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, and Tables are presented as an online supplement (Appendix S1). The COVID-19 pandemic is having a particularly significant psychological impact on health-care workers, with 25% reported to be depressed during the pandemic. 1 Health-care workers are not only at higher risk of exposure to SARS-CoV-2 and increased workloads, 2 but also social isolation and rejection due to the high probability that they will come into contact with potentially infectious COVID-19 patients. 3 Social support has been recognized as a protective factor for mental health among health-care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. 4 However, social restrictions lead to reduced access to support from family and friends, and degrade social support systems, which can cause loneliness and depressed mood. 5 In particular, individuals who live alone may be at high risk of adverse psychological conditions when they miss out on opportunities for emotional exchange and social support with cohabitants. These findings indicate the need to explore the relation between living alone and depressive symptoms during pandemic-related restrictions. While accumulating evidence suggests that living alone exacerbates depressive symptoms, 6 research on this issue among health-care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic is scarce. To our knowledge, only one recent study in China has investigated the relation between living alone and depression symptoms in medical staff during the COVID-19 pandemic. 7 The aim of this study was to examine the cross-sectional association of living with others with depressive symptoms among staff members at the National Center for Global Health and Medicine (NCGM) in Tokyo, Japan, a leading institute in the response to COVID-19 in Japan. Data for the present study were derived from the NCGM Clinical Epidemiology Study on SARS-CoV-2 Antibody, an ongoing clinical epidemiological study conducted among workers at NCGM. The first wave of the survey, conducted in July 2020, mainly targeted those who had

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“…According to Sophie et al (2017) the concept of emotional well-being is an umbrella term for psychological concepts such as life satisfaction, life purpose and positive emotions, all of which are shown to be associated with improved physical and mental function. Likewise, Langeland (2014) and Kakunje et al (2020) agree that emotional well-being is a component of mental health that includes a positive balance of pleasant to unpleasant affect and a cognitive appraisal with life in general, including ability to handle one's emotions and all life activities. Understandably, emotional well-being means a state of positive mental health and wellness, involving a sense of happiness, confidence, optimism, vitality, self-achievement and having meaning and purpose and responding effectively to one's own emotions (Weare, 2020;Choi, 2018;Barry, Clarke, & Dowling, 2017;Mclaughlin, 2008;Glazer-Zikuda et al, 2013;Eaude, 2009).…”

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Enabling Teachers as Front Liners in Maintaining Learners’ Emotional Well-Being during Covid-19 Context: Ubuntu/Botho as a Guiding Principle

Lephoto¹

2021

JETSS

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This article is an attempt to theoretically present Ubuntu/Botho philosophy as a complementary approach to guide efforts intended to restore and maintain positive emotional well-being among African Basotho school going children and youth during COVID-19 and beyond. Research shows that COVID-19 pandemic has impacted badly on school systems, particularly teaching and learning process and school life in general. The central assumption driving this paper is that factors emanating from Covid-19 pandemic do not only contribute to the damage of learning process for many learners, but they also contribute to a mental and emotional health crisis, as a result of lost access to services that are naturally offered by schools. Informed by Ubuntu/Botho philosophy, the paper argues that schools have moral obligation to protect learners’ emotional health as a crucial variable for both their complete psychosocial well-being and academic achievement. It looks at maintenance of emotional well-being from the lens of Ubuntu/Botho world view. Ubuntu/Botho adoption as a theoretical framework is an effort to contribute knowledge and suggest practice that have their foundation on the experiences of people, informed by their own sociological and cultural constructs. Ubuntu/Botho as a guiding principle places values such as compassion, empathy, sharing, respect, solidarity at the centre of human co-existence, thus, has the potential to create school relationships and support systems that can restore and maintain positive emotions.

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Emotional well-being, mental health awareness, and prevention of suicide: Covid-19 pandemic and digital psychiatry

Cited by 17 publications

References 41 publications

Fear of COVID-19 Pandemic, Obsessive-Compulsive Traits and Sleep Quality among First Academic Year Nursing Students, Alexandria University, Egypt.

Fear of COVID-19 Pandemic, Obsessive-Compulsive Traits and Sleep Quality among First Academic Year Nursing Students, Alexandria University, Egypt.

Association between living with others and depressive symptoms in Japanese hospital workers during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Enabling Teachers as Front Liners in Maintaining Learners’ Emotional Well-Being during Covid-19 Context: Ubuntu/Botho as a Guiding Principle

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