The impact of economic recessions on depression and individual and social well-being: the case of Spain (2006–2013)

Chaves, Covadonga; Castellanos, T; Abrams, Matthew P.; Vázquez, Carmelo

doi:10.1007/s00127-018-1558-2

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“…Epidemic diseases have a psychological and psychological impact on both infected and non-infected persons 22 , 23 , 24 . Both the infected and non-infected population might be susceptible as a result of certain experiences, such as widespread anxiety, social isolation, stress in health-care workers and other essential workers, unemployment and financial difficulties 9 , 22 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 . Our study found that 17.7% of COVID-19 patients had a major mental disorder characterized by sleep disorders.…”

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Clinical sequelae of COVID-19 survivors in Wuhan, China: a single-centre longitudinal study

Xiong

et al. 2021

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

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Objectives To describe the prevalence, nature, and risk factors for the main clinical sequelae in COVID-19 survivors who have been discharged from the hospital for more than 3 months. Methods This longitudinal study was based on a telephone follow-up survey of COVID-19 patients hospitalized and discharged from Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China before March 1, 2020. Demographic and clinical characteristics and self-reported clinical sequelae of the survivors were described and analysed. A cohort of volunteers who were free of COVID-19 and lived in the urban area of Wuhan during the outbreak were also selected as the comparison group. Results Among 538 survivors (293[54.5%] female), the median age was 52.0 years (IQR 41.0–62.0), and the median time from discharge from hospital to first follow-up was 97.0 days (IQR 95.0–102.0). Clinical sequelae were common, including general symptoms (n=267, 49.6%), respiratory symptoms (n=210, 39%), cardiovascular-related symptoms (n=70, 13%), psychosocial symptoms (n=122, 22.7%) and alopecia (n=154, 28.6%). We found that physical decline/fatigue (P<0.01), post-activity polypnea (P=0.04) and alopecia (P<0.01) were more common in females than in males. Dyspnoea during hospitalization was associated with subsequent physical decline/fatigue, post-activity polypnea and resting heart rate increases, but not specifically with alopecia. A history of asthma during hospitalization was associated with subsequent post-activity polypnea sequela. A history of pulse ≥90 beats per min during hospitalization was associated with resting heart rate increase in convalescence. The duration of viral shedding after COVID-19 onset and hospital length of stay were longer in survivors with physical decline/fatigue or post-activity polypnea than in those without. Conclusion Clinical sequelae during early COVID-19 convalescence were common, and some of these sequelae might be related to gender, age and clinical characteristics during hospitalization.

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Clinical sequelae of COVID-19 survivors in Wuhan, China: a single-centre longitudinal study

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Clinical Microbiology and Infection

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“…2,3 The economic impact will exert its own separate toll on nations' mental health. 4 Many members of the public are likely to develop distress, depression and prolonged grief by isolation, loss of income and losing family members in heart-breaking circumstances with the possibility of comforting rituals drastically curtailed. 5 World Health Organization guidance on pandemic influenza risk management 6 includes as one of the possible necessary responses 'Address the psychological impacts of the pandemic, especially on the health workforce, and provide social and psychological support for health care workers, patients and communities' (p. 39).…”

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Why we need to integrate mental health into pandemic planning

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Pirard

et al. 2020

Perspect Public Health

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“…Giori, Arcangeli, Mucci, and Cupelli (2015) tested a mediation model, using Italian data, in which the independent variable was fear of the economic crisis and the outcome was mental health; job stress and social support both mediated this relationship. In a before‐and‐after study of the recession's effect in Spain, Chaves, Castellanos, Abrams, and Vazquez (2018) found that citizens' depressive symptoms increased, and that this was explained by a reduction in the effect of positive beliefs about society on well‐being. A study of Irish employees by Harney, Fu, and Freeney (2018) found that the experience of restructuring and downsizing increased exhaustion, and that this was mediated by increased work demands.…”

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Recessionary actions and absence: A workplace‐level study

Wood

Michaelides

Ogbonnaya

2020

Human Resource Management

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Actions such as work restructuring and wage and employment freezes taken by organizations in response to recessions are widely assumed to decrease employees' job security and detrimentally affect perceptions of management's trustworthiness. We assess whether these effects occur and if, in turn, they affect workplace absenteeism. Using data from Britain's Workplace Employee Relations Survey 2011, we show that the effects on stress-based absence are limited and not as predicted, but the effects on withdrawal-based absence are strong and as predicted. Reductions in well-being or job security's effect on well-being did not affect absence, and while the reduction of trust perceptions' effect was to increase anxiety, anxiety did not increase but reduced absenteeism. The effects on withdrawal absence differ: those of recessionary action through job security reduce absenteeism, while those through trust perceptions increase it, both as predicted. The two effects involving trust perceptions are less pronounced when recessionary actions are accompanied by voluntary layoffs, but not by compulsory layoffs. The implications for management are that they should be more conscious of the effects on absence when planning recessionary actions, and more generally their effects on presenteeism.

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The impact of economic recessions on depression and individual and social well-being: the case of Spain (2006–2013)

Abstract: Economic crises are associated with a significant increase in depressive symptoms. Furthermore, financial crises seem to have a corrosive impact on mental health by reducing the mediating effects of positive beliefs regarding the good nature of society.

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Clinical sequelae of COVID-19 survivors in Wuhan, China: a single-centre longitudinal study

Clinical sequelae of COVID-19 survivors in Wuhan, China: a single-centre longitudinal study

Why we need to integrate mental health into pandemic planning

Recessionary actions and absence: A workplace‐level study

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