Living with COVID-19: Depression, Anxiety and Life Satisfaction during the New Normal in Turkey

Uysal, Burcu; Görmez, Vahdet; Eren, Senem; Morgül, Ebru; Öcal, Nilgün Belkıs; Karatepe, Hasan Turan; Yanik, Medaim

doi:10.5455/jcbpr.62468

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“…Emphasizing the need to prioritize interventions that enhance sleep quality as a crucial aspect of public health, our findings propose potential avenues for mitigating or preventing the onset of mental health disorders. Aligned with the study's primary focus on the lasting effects of the pandemic, our conclusion underscores the imperative of addressing mental health and sleep quality within broader public health strategies (10). Despite acknowledging the study's limitations, we emphasize its significant contributions to our understanding of post-pandemic mental health challenges.…”

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confidence: 70%

Commentary: Sleep quality, quality of life, fatigue, and mental health in COVID-19 post-pandemic Türkiye: a cross-sectional study

Sreya,

Lakshmana Rao,

Kulshrestha

et al. 2024

Front. Public Health

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confidence: 70%

Commentary: Sleep quality, quality of life, fatigue, and mental health in COVID-19 post-pandemic Türkiye: a cross-sectional study

Sreya,

Lakshmana Rao,

Kulshrestha

et al. 2024

Front. Public Health

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“…The reliability coefficient of Cronbach's α for the overall GAD-7 scale is 0.86, which is greater than the recommended value of 0.80, suggesting excellent reliability. The total scores range from 0 to 21 and were categorized as follows: minimal/no anxiety (0-4), mild (7-9, 13, 15), moderate (11,12,14,16,17), and severe (1,(18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…A systematic review and meta-analysis investigating changes in the quality of sleep and disturbances of sleep among the general population prior to and during the COVID-19 lockdown has revealed a decline in sleep quality and sleep efficiency, and an increase in sleep disturbances (11). The worldwide pandemic created an unpredictable, stressful, anxiety-provoking environment, with fear of infection and financial concerns added to social isolation and other negative consequences of lockdowns (12)(13)(14). Home confinement also resulted in increased screen time as many individuals turned to the media and the internet for information on the pandemic or to distract themselves from the stressful situation.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In the initial phases of the pandemic, people with mental health problems in the general population were reported to be struggling with higher levels of depression, anxiety, stress, and fear symptoms (6,12,(18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23)(24). Indeed, several studies conducted in various countries have reported the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of the general population (1,14). Multiple studies have also shown associations among depression, anxiety, stress, and negative changes in sleep (13,15,25,26).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Sleep quality, quality of life, fatigue, and mental health in COVID-19 post-pandemic Türkiye: a cross-sectional study

Bener,

Morgul,

Tokaç

et al. 2024

Front. Public Health

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AimThis study explores the predictors and associated risk factors of sleep quality, quality of life, fatigue, and mental health among the Turkish population during the COVID-19 post-pandemic period.Materials and methodsA cross-sectional survey using multi-stage, stratified random sampling was employed. In total, 3,200 persons were approached. Of these, 2,624 (82%) completed the questionnaire package consisting of socio-demographic information, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), the WHO Quality of Life Brief Version (WHOQOL-BREF), Fatigue Assessment Scale (FAS), Patients Health Questionnaire (PHQ-15), GAD-7 anxiety scale, and the 21-item Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scale (DASS-21).ResultsSignificant differences between genders were found regarding socio-demographic characteristics (p < 0.01). Using PHQ-15 for depressive disorders, significant differences were found between normal and high severity scores (≥ 10), regarding age group (p < 0.001), gender (p = 0.049), educational level (p < 0.001), occupational status (p = 0.019), cigarette smoking (p = 0.002), waterpipe-narghile smoking (p = 0.039), and co-morbidity (p = 0.003). The WHOQOL-BREF indicated strong correlations between public health, physical health, psychological status, social relationships, environmental conditions, and sleep disorders (p < 0.01). Furthermore, comparisons of the prevalence of mental health symptoms and sleeping with PHQ-15 scores ≥ 10 (p = 0.039), fatigue (p = 0.012), depression (p = 0.009), anxiety (p = 0.032), stress (p = 0.045), and GAD-7 (p < 0.001), were significantly higher among the mental health condition according to sleeping disorder status. Multiple regression analysis revealed that DASS21 stress (p < 0.001), DASS21 depression (p < 0.001), DASS21 anxiety (p = 0.002), physical health (WHOQOL-BREF) (p = 0.007), patient health depression-PHQ-15 (p = 0.011), psychological health (WHOQOL-BREF) (p = 0.012), fatigue (p = 0.017), and environmental factors (WHOQOL-BREF) (p = 0.041) were the main predictor risk factors associated with sleep when adjusted for gender and age.ConclusionThe current study has shown that sleep quality was associated with the mental health symptoms of depression, anxiety, stress, and fatigue. In addition, insufficient sleep duration and unsatisfactory sleep quality seemed to affect physical and mental health functioning.

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“…However, despite steady vaccination, COVID-19 continues to spread worldwide due to the occurrence of multiple variants. As a result, the New Normal era after this pandemic is more likely to be "Living with COVID-19", and there has been a great deal of discussion about it [7][8][9].…”

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confidence: 99%

Development of a Method for Evaluating Social Distancing Situations on Urban Streets during a Pandemic

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In the New Normal era of “Living with COVID-19”, we need a measure of the safety of street spaces. Social distancing during a pandemic is considered an effective safety measure, but the current binary threshold approach to social distancing is clearly inadequate for evaluating and monitoring the risk of infection on urban streets. This study is to propose a social distancing indicator that can quantitatively evaluate the level of exposure to viral infection for pedestrians using urban streets during a pandemic, and to develop a statistical model to estimate the proposed indicator from simulations of pedestrian activity on urban streets. We assumed that the risk of infection on urban streets has a direct relationship with distance between pedestrians. The social distancing indicator was based largely on the findings of past studies. We developed a statistical model to relate the proposed indicator to three other explanatory variables: pedestrian density, clumpiness, and directional heterogeneity. We used pedestrian simulation to generate the raw data for these explanatory variables. The social distancing indicator demonstrated a statistically significant relationship with input variables and can be used to evaluate pedestrians’ social distancing on urban streets. We measured the relationship between different levels of pedestrian density, clumpiness, and directional heterogeneity and related the results to the potential level of exposure to viral infection. Health agencies can use the findings to develop appropriate policies for monitoring and improving the social distance between pedestrians on urban streets during a pandemic.

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Living with COVID-19: Depression, Anxiety and Life Satisfaction during the New Normal in Turkey

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Commentary: Sleep quality, quality of life, fatigue, and mental health in COVID-19 post-pandemic Türkiye: a cross-sectional study

Commentary: Sleep quality, quality of life, fatigue, and mental health in COVID-19 post-pandemic Türkiye: a cross-sectional study

Sleep quality, quality of life, fatigue, and mental health in COVID-19 post-pandemic Türkiye: a cross-sectional study

Development of a Method for Evaluating Social Distancing Situations on Urban Streets during a Pandemic

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