Psychological Distress during the COVID-19 pandemic in France: a national assessment of at-risk populations

Chaix, Benjamin; Delamon, Guillaume; Guillemassé, Arthur; Brouard, Benoît; Bibault, Jean‐Emmanuel

doi:10.1101/2020.05.10.20093161

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“…The present data are in line with data from other countries in the context of the pandemic, and provide additional evidence of the mental health burden of the COVID-19 pandemic (Chaix et al, 2020;Filgueiras and Stults-Kolehmainen, 2020;Garcia-Priego et al, 2020;Jia et al, 2020;Jung et al, 2020;Moreira et al, 2020;Newby et al, 2020;Qiu et al, 2020;Rossi et al, 2020a;Rossi et al, 2020b;Sigdel et al, 2020;Suryadevara et al, 2020;Tan et al, 2020;Ueda et al, 2020;Vahedian-Azimi et al, 2020;Wang et al, 2020a). However (and even though we did not perform a comparative study between countries), there is no evidence from the local Saudi data that the strict curfews and restrictions have led to more severe psychological distress in the KSA than in other countries.…”

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confidence: 88%

“…Chinese studies have shown that approximately 35-50% of people have experienced psychological distress owing to the COVID-19 pandemic (Qiu et al, 2020;Wang et al, 2020a). High rates of psychological distress have also been reported in Australia (Newby et al, 2020), Italy (Rossi et al, 2020a;Rossi et al, 2020b), Mexico (Garcia-Priego et al, 2020), the UK (Jia et al, 2020), Singapore (Chew et al, 2020;Tan et al, 2020), France (Chaix et al, 2020), Germany (Jung et al, 2020), Portugal (Moreira et al, 2020), Brazil (Filgueiras and Stults-Kolehmainen, 2020), Japan (Ueda et al, 2020), India (Chew et al, 2020;Suryadevara et al, 2020), Nepal (Sigdel et al, 2020) and Iran (Vahedian-Azimi et al, 2020). The mental health burden includes stress, anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and insomnia.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Psychological Distress during COVID-19 Curfews and Social Distancing in Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study

Alghamdi

Alatawi

Alshehri

et al. 2020

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Background Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread to over 150 countries worldwide. Since the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in Saudi Arabia, cases have continued to escalate exponentially. The COVID-19 outbreak has had a negative effect on mental health and well-being. The study aim was to investigate the effects of the strict national regulations associated with the COVID-19 pandemic on the population’s mental health. Methods This was a cross-sectional study of a convenience sample of Saudi residents. Participants completed an online questionnaire after 1 month of a nationwide 24-hour curfew. We measured psychological distress using the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale-21 (DASS-21). We ran binary logistic regression analyses to detect variables that significantly predicted DASS-21 scores. Results The sample comprised 2252 Saudi residents. The DASS-21 score means and standard deviations for depression and anxiety for the whole sample (10.73 ± 10.29 and 6.98 ± 8.30, respectively) were in the range of mild depression and anxiety. In contrast, the mean DASS-21 stress score was within the normal range (11.97 ± 10.80). The mean stress score for healthcare workers was within normal range (13.70 ± 10.68), but was significantly higher than the mean score for the public (11.56 ± 10.89; P = .0006). Several variables (e.g. age, gender and history of contact with confirmed COVID-19 cases) were significantly associated with higher DASS-21 scores. Conclusions The COVID-19 pandemic has created a psychological burden. Therefore, there is an urgent need to implement emergency psychological interventions to reduce the negative psychosocial effects of the pandemic on public mental health.

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confidence: 99%

Psychological Distress during COVID-19 Curfews and Social Distancing in Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study

Alghamdi

Alatawi

Alshehri

et al. 2020

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“…11 Our focus on GDP reflects both the ubiquity of this measure and a lack of available, robust, economic estimates of the wider welfare impacts of lockdown. To better understand some of those wider costs, we direct the interested reader to: Branley-Bell and Talbot, 2020; Burki, 2020; Cash and Patel, 2020;Chaix et al, 2020;McLay, 2020;Pancani et al, 2020;Pinto and Jones, 2020;Sud et al, 2020;Van Lancker and Parolin, 2020. While driven out of necessity, we think that a focus solely on GDP is also justified.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Hence the true economic costs are more diverse and quite possibly more severe than that captured by financial metrics alone. They include negative ramifications for people's mental health (Pancani et al 2020;Chaix et al 2020;Branley-Bell and Talbot 2020); increased prevalence of domestic violence (McLay 2020); and likely reduce the educational achievement of today's children (Pinto and Jones 2020;Van Lancker and Parolin 2020). As with previous financial crises (Hoynes et al 2012) and pandemics (Nikolopoulos et al 2011), the virus and the economic fall-out are disproportionately affecting people from disadvantaged groups and lower-income households.…”

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Cross-Country Comparisons of Covid-19: Policy, Politics and the Price of Life

Balmford

Annan²,

Hargreaves³

et al. 2020

Environ Resource Econ

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Coronavirus has claimed the lives of over half a million people worldwide and this death toll continues to rise rapidly each day. In the absence of a vaccine, non-clinical preventative measures have been implemented as the principal means of limiting deaths. However, these measures have caused unprecedented disruption to daily lives and economic activity. Given this developing crisis, the potential for a second wave of infections and the near certainty of future pandemics, lessons need to be rapidly gleaned from the available data. We address the challenges of crosscountry comparisons by allowing for differences in reporting and variation in underlying socioeconomic conditions between countries. Our analyses show that, to date, differences in policy interventions have outweighed socioeconomic variation in explaining the range of death rates observed in the data. Our epidemiological models show that across 8 countries a further week long delay in imposing lockdown would likely have cost more than half a million lives. Furthermore, those countries which acted more promptly saved substantially more lives than those that delayed. Linking decisions over the timing of lockdown and consequent deaths to economic data, we reveal the costs that national governments were implicitly prepared to pay to protect their citizens as reflected in the economic activity foregone to save lives. These 'price of life' estimates vary enormously between countries, ranging from as low as around $100,000 (e.g. the UK, US and Italy) to in excess of $1million (e.g. Denmark, Germany, New Zealand and Korea). The lowest estimates are further reduced once we correct for under-reporting of Covid-19 deaths.

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“…4 Factors like lockdown, social isolation, disruptions in life routines may cause peritraumatic distress (PD). 5 It is defined as emotional and psychological distress during or immediately after any traumatic event and may develop into post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). 6 Study from China reveals that 35% (N=52,730) experienced PD related to COVID-19.…”

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Peritraumatic distress and perceived mental healthcare needs among residents of a community housing during COVID-19

Samson

Shah

2020

J Patan Acad Health Sci

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Introduction: The consequences of lockdown, quarantine, and uncertainties of COVID-19 pandemic has not only caused physical sufferings but affected the mental health of the people around the globe. Peritraumatic distress is a strong predictor of posttraumatic stress disorder that may further lead to depression and suicidal risk. Thus, the aim of this study was to assess peritraumatic distress and perceived mental healthcare needs among the residents of a gated community in Kathmandu Valley. Method: This was a quantitative online cross-sectional study conducted during June 2020 among adult residents of a gated community in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. COVID-19 peritraumatic distress index and perceived mental healthcare questionnaire were used to find out peritraumatic distress and mental healthcare needs of the residents. Ethical approval was obtained. Statistical analysis of data was done using SPSS. Result: A total of 45 residents returned the completed forms. Male were 62.2%, 53.3% belonged to 36 to 55 years and 46.7% had at least one comorbidity. Mild to moderate peritraumatic distress was found among 17.82%. Fisher’s exact test showed no association between age, gender, presence of comorbidity and peritraumatic distress (p > 0.05). Perceived mental healthcare needs were felt by more than 91% of the participants. Conclusion: One sixth of the participants had mild to moderate level of peritraumatic distress. Almost all the participants felt they have mental healthcare needs. Study highlights the need for counseling for distress and mental health during COVID-19 pandemic.

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Psychological Distress during the COVID-19 pandemic in France: a national assessment of at-risk populations

Cited by 18 publications

References 25 publications

Psychological Distress during COVID-19 Curfews and Social Distancing in Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study

Psychological Distress during COVID-19 Curfews and Social Distancing in Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study

Cross-Country Comparisons of Covid-19: Policy, Politics and the Price of Life

Peritraumatic distress and perceived mental healthcare needs among residents of a community housing during COVID-19

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