Towards a model of uncertainty distress in the context of Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Freeston, Mark H.; Tiplady, Ashley; Mawn, Lauren; Bottesi, Gioia; Thwaites, Sarah

doi:10.1017/s1754470x2000029x

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“…Similarly to what has been observed in other countries [25,72], these findings confirm the negative psychological impact of the pandemic, and further highlight the presence of moderate to severe anxiety symptoms in Italian mothers during the lockdown. The quarantine measures imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic represent an uncertain and threatening situation that could trigger anxiety symptoms [73] and interfere with personal self-control [74].…”

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Stress, Resilience, and Well-Being in Italian Children and Their Parents during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak has forced parents and children to adopt significant changes in their daily routine, which has been a big challenge for families, with important implications for family stress. In this study, we aimed to analyze the potential risk and protective factors for parents’ and children’s well-being during a potentially traumatic event such as the COVID-19 quarantine. Specifically, we investigated parents’ and children’s well-being, parental stress, and children’s resilience. The study involved 463 Italian parents of children aged 5–17. All participants completed an online survey consisting of the Psychological General Well Being Index (PGWB) to assess parental well-being, the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) to measure children’s well-being, the Parent Stress Scale (PSS) to investigate parental stress, and the Child and Youth Resilience Measure (CYRM-R) to measure children’s resilience. The results show that confinement measures and changes in daily routine negatively affect parents’ psychological dimensions, thus exposing children to a significant risk for their well-being. Our results also detect some risk factors for psychological maladjustments, such as parental stress, lower levels of resilience in children, changes in working conditions, and parental psychological, physical, or genetic problems. In this study, we attempted to identify the personal and contextual variables involved in the psychological adjustment to the COVID-19 quarantine to identify families at risk for maladjustment and pave the way for ad hoc intervention programs intended to support them. Our data show promising results for the early detection of the determinants of families’ psychological health. It is important to focus attention on the needs of families and children—including their mental health—to mitigate the health and economic implications of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Stress, Resilience, and Well-Being in Italian Children and Their Parents during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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“…Furthermore, there is a surfeit of information from multiple sources which is rolling and instant in the digital age (Freeston et al ., in press). Unfiltered information may be perplexing, contradictory, untrustworthy or even misinformation.…”

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OCD and COVID-19: a new frontier

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Shahriyarmolki

Taylor

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People with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) are likely to be more susceptible to the mental health impact of COVID-19. This paper shares the perspectives of expert clinicians working with OCD considering how to identify OCD in the context of COVID-19, changes in the presentation and importantly what to consider when undertaking Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) for OCD in the current climate. The expert consensus is although the presentation of OCD and treatment may have become more difficult, CBT should still continue remotely unless there are specific reasons for it not to e.g. increase in risk, no access to computer or exposure tasks or behavioural experiments cannot be undertaken. The authors highlight some of the considerations to take in CBT in light of our current understanding of COVID-19, including therapists and clients taking calculated risks when developing behavioural experiments and exposure tasks, considering viral loading and vulnerability factors. Special considerations for young people and perinatal women are discussed as well as foreseeing what life may be like for those with OCD after the pandemic is over.

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“…Although literature has provided commentaries, theoretical frames, and perspectives, there is limited empirical evidence to lean on to understand resilience during COVID-19. However, the model of uncertainty distress tailored to COVID-19 psychosocial reality (Freeston et al, 2020) provides insight into the impact of adversities and adversities which are simultaneous. Resilience is a temporally stable but dynamic psychosocial process that unfolds over time (Fletcher and Sarkar, 2012;Bonanno and Diminich, 2013;Galli and Gonzalez, 2015;Bryan et al, 2017;Hill et al, 2018).…”

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Sporting Resilience During COVID-19: What Is the Nature of This Adversity and How Are Competitive Elite Athletes Adapting?

Gupta

McCarthy

2021

Front. Psychol.

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The COVID-19 pandemic is a global health issue which has severely disrupted and deferred several landmark international sporting competitions. Like the general population, athletes have faced direct psychological consequences from COVID-19 in addition to cancelation of events, loss of support, lack of training, loss of earnings, hypervigilance, and anxiety among others. The aim of the present research was to identify the adversity experiences of athletes caused by COVID-19 (study 1) and explore the process of resilience used by competitive elite athletes for positive adaptation (study 2). Research has indicated psychological resilience to be a protective factor against similar adversities in the sporting context. The study uses an across-cases qualitative design comparing the real-time lived experiences of athletes during COVID-19 using narrative analysis. Data were collected from 10 competitive elite athletes from various countries, as part of a larger doctoral dissertation study during the lockdown period, using in-depth experiential interviews. Study 1 presents detailed narratives on the loss and incongruence, which were the two major adversities experienced. Study 2 outlines the process of resilience as narrated by the participants through the emergent and minimal-impact resilience trajectories. We discuss recommendations for interventions and the role of sports psychologists, coaches, and sporting organizations in ensuring athletes’ mental health and their rehabilitation into post-COVID sports life.

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Towards a model of uncertainty distress in the context of Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Cited by 149 publications

References 57 publications

Stress, Resilience, and Well-Being in Italian Children and Their Parents during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Stress, Resilience, and Well-Being in Italian Children and Their Parents during the COVID-19 Pandemic

OCD and COVID-19: a new frontier

Sporting Resilience During COVID-19: What Is the Nature of This Adversity and How Are Competitive Elite Athletes Adapting?

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