Stress resilience during the coronavirus pandemic

Vinkers, Christiaan H.; Amelsvoort, Thérèse van; Bisson, Jonathan I.; Branchi, Igor; Cryan, John F.; Domschke, Katharina; Howes, Oliver; Manchia, Mirko; Pinto, Luísa; Quervain, Dominique de; Schmidt, Mathias; Wee, Nic J.A. van der

doi:10.1016/j.euroneuro.2020.05.003

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“…Consistent with research demonstrating increased risk of stress-related negative outcomes in lower SES groups, we found that, during the COVID-19 outbreak, lower SES was associated with lower wellbeing, even after accounting for individuals' emotional experiences during the last week. This finding highlights the stressors relating to both financial and health strains in lower SES communities, especially at times of crisis, and points to the importance of policy makers considering SES when introducing interventions at the societal level (38). One way to increase people's sense of control is to provide them with adequate information.…”

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“…Feelings of sadness and anxiety map onto the symptoms of two prevalent mental health conditions, depression and anxiety disorders. Frequent anxiety or sadness can reflect a risk for developing chronic mental health problems, especially during periods of social distancing (38). These findings highlight the particular challenge of pandemic threat, as the nature of the threat itself precludes many social strategies for handling stress (39).…”

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“…The present findings emphasize the role of individual-level factors in shaping wellbeing. However, this does not mean that emotions and wellbeing are a personal responsibility (38,41). This is particularly true during the collective strain of a pandemic crisis (42); historical evidence shows increased rates of suicide following both the 1918 influenza (43) and SARS in 2003 (44).…”

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Psychological Wellbeing During the Global COVID-19 Outbreak

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The COVID-19 pandemic presents a significant challenge to wellbeing for people around the world. Here, we examine which individual and societal factors can predict the extent to which individuals suffer or thrive during the COVID-19 outbreak, with survey data collected from 26,684 participants in 51 countries from 17 April to 15 May 2020. We show that wellbeing is linked to an individual's recent experiences of specific momentary positive and negative emotions, including love, calm, determination, and loneliness. Higher socioeconomic status was associated with better wellbeing. The present study provides a rich map of emotional experiences and wellbeing around the world during the COVID-19 outbreak, and points to calm, connection, and control as central to our wellbeing at this time of collective crisis.

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“…They are also liable to anxiety and fear attributed to the greater risk of infection during treatment provision in the dental office, especially during pandemics [11]. Mild anxiety helps people perform goal-directed tasks, is natural and may foster preventive behaviors during pandemics [12]. Severe anxiety, on the other hand, is associated with physical symptoms such as muscle tightening, hyperventilation, increased heart rate, sweating, trembling, fatigue, troubled sleeping, gastrointestinal disorders in addition to impaired cognitive skills [13].…”

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Behavior change due to COVID-19 among dental academics—The theory of planned behavior: Stresses, worries, training, and pandemic severity

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“…The long-term health and social implications of the virus are unknown. We also do not know when (or if at all) life will return to its pre-pandemic state [ 6 ]. Ubiquitous uncertainty makes it difficult to plan for the future and thus, becomes a source of additional stress [ 6 ].…”

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Mental Health and the SARS-COV-2 Epidemic—Polish Research Study

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Background: The aim of this study was to assess the mental state of Poles in the first weeks of the SARS-COV-2 epidemic. Methods: In the study, the General Health Questionnaire-28 (GHQ-18), The Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10), and Mini-Cope were used. Results: The study was conducted on a group of 443 individuals, including 348 women (78.6%) and 95 men (21.4%). There were more women (χ2 = 6.42, p = 0.02) in the group of people with high results in the GHQ-28 questionnaire and the differentiating factors between those with sten scores above 7 (significantly deteriorated mental health) and those with average or low results (sten score below 7) turned out to be: treatment for mental disorders before the pandemic (χ2 = 19.57, p < 0.001) and the use of psychotherapy during the pandemic (χ2 = 4.21, p = 0.04) and psychiatric pharmacotherapy (χ2 = 8.31, p = 0.01). The presence of suicidal thoughts since the appearance of the pandemic-related restraints and limitations significantly differentiates the compared groups (χ2 = 38.48, p < 0.001). Conclusions: Every fourth person in the examined group (over 26% of the respondents) recorded results that indicate a high probability of mental functioning disorders. Approximately 10% of the respondents signalled the occurrence of suicidal thoughts since the beginning of the pandemic. The respondents complain mainly about problems in everyday life, lack of satisfaction from one’s own activities, tension, trouble sleeping, and feelings of exhaustion. Individuals with significantly reduced mental well-being use non-adaptive coping strategies, such as denying problems, emotional discharge, taking substances, discontinuation of action, and blaming themselves for the situation. The risk factors for the deterioration of the mental state of the respondents during the pandemic include psychiatric treatment before the beginning of the pandemic, the presence of suicidal thoughts during forced isolation, and the use of non-adaptive coping strategies (denial of the existence of problems, emotional discharge, use of psychoactive substances, discontinuation of action, and blaming oneself for the situation).

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Stress resilience during the coronavirus pandemic

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Psychological Wellbeing During the Global COVID-19 Outbreak

Psychological Wellbeing During the Global COVID-19 Outbreak

Behavior change due to COVID-19 among dental academics—The theory of planned behavior: Stresses, worries, training, and pandemic severity

Mental Health and the SARS-COV-2 Epidemic—Polish Research Study

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