Human biases and the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic

García-Alamino, Josep M

doi:10.1016/j.iccn.2020.102861

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“…Originated in Wuhan, China, from December 2019 [2], the COVID-19 infected 8.7 million human beings across 210 countries and territories with confirmed cases of death around 0.47 million by 22 June 2020 [3]. The outbreak of COVID-19, and the unprecedented fatalities it caused, has made the governments and health practitioners across the world to promote psychological crisis interventions along with other necessary preventive social safety protocols for the citizens as well as for the healthcare workers during the pandemic [4][5][6][7][8][9][10].…”

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Social and electronic media exposure and generalized anxiety disorder among people during COVID-19 outbreak in Bangladesh: A preliminary observation

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Classified as a pandemic by the World Health Organization, the novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) has spread to Bangladesh since early March of 2020, and people are getting daily updates from the social and electronic media. We aimed at assessing the prevalence of anxiety among Bangladeshi people during the pandemic in connection with social media exposure (SME) and electronic media exposure (EME). For this cross-sectional study, data were collected from 880 participants by a self-administered online-based questionnaire relating personal characteristics, self-rate health (SRH), SME, and EME with anxiety. Findings show that around half of the surveyed population experienced a spike of anxiety (49.1%) during the pandemic, ten times higher than the national anxiety rate in 2019. The participants with an increased SME of over four hours per day experienced a higher level of anxiety than individuals with < = 2 hours exposure to social media. Similarly, the anxiety was higher among people with fair/bad SRH compared to individuals with excellent SRH. It is highly recommended to develop active surveillance and effective monitoring systems to reduce the spread of misinformation from both social and electronic media to improve the state of mental health conditions during the pandemic.

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Social and electronic media exposure and generalized anxiety disorder among people during COVID-19 outbreak in Bangladesh: A preliminary observation

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“…This system will allow identifying high-risk patients at an early stage, possibly leading to optimized management, and overcoming the shortage of medical and material resources ( Gao et al, 2020 , Li et al, 2020 , Shi et al, 2020 , Zhou et al, 2020 ). At the same time, this system will provide a more adequate screening of patients eligible to be transferred to specialized intensive care units, thus avoiding the overload of care and the medical errors that may arise ( Garcia-Alamino, 2020 , Janssonet al, 2020 , Lucchini et al, 2020 ).…”

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Development and validation of a laboratory risk score for the early prediction of COVID-19 severity and in-hospital mortality

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Intensive and Critical Care Nursing

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“…Thus, it is plausible that cognitive biases may affect risk assessment associated with COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, up to date, very few studies have addressed this issue [e.g., (13,14)].…”

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Mental Well-Being During Pandemic: The Role of Cognitive Biases and Emotion Regulation Strategies in Risk Perception and Affective Response to COVID-19

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Both cognitive appraisals of risks associated with the specific disease and affective response to crisis situations have been shown to shape an individual response to pandemics. COVID-19 pandemic and measures introduced to contain it present an unparalleled challenge to mental well-being worldwide. Here, we examine the relationship between self-reported cognitive biases (CB) and emotion regulation skills (ER), COVID-19 risk perception and affective response, and mental well-being (MWB). Five Hundred and Eleven individuals completed General Health Questionnaire, Emotion Regulation Questionnaire, Davos Assessment of Cognitive Biases Scale (DACOBS) as well as scales measuring COVID-19 risk perception and affective response during the initial days of the epidemic in Poland. We used path and bootstrapping analyses to examine the hypothesis that CB may shape MWB during COVID-19 pandemic both directly and indirectly by (i) decreasing ER capacity and (ii) by increasing COVID-19 risk perception and affective response. Negative effect of CB and positive effect of ER via cognitive reappraisal on MWB were observed in participants. Furthermore, in line with our hypothesis, we observed indirect effects of CB via increased COVID-19 risk perception and affective response and decreased use of reappraisal strategy, which all, in turn, were related to MWB. Finally, we found an indirect effect of CB on MWB through double mediation of suppression strategies and COVID-19 affective response. Results of the current study suggest that CB, which have been shown to be linked to a variety of mental health symptoms in non-clinical populations, may exacerbate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health outcomes.

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Human biases and the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic

Cited by 16 publications

References 8 publications

Social and electronic media exposure and generalized anxiety disorder among people during COVID-19 outbreak in Bangladesh: A preliminary observation

Social and electronic media exposure and generalized anxiety disorder among people during COVID-19 outbreak in Bangladesh: A preliminary observation

Development and validation of a laboratory risk score for the early prediction of COVID-19 severity and in-hospital mortality

Mental Well-Being During Pandemic: The Role of Cognitive Biases and Emotion Regulation Strategies in Risk Perception and Affective Response to COVID-19

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