SOCIAL MEDIA EXPOSURE AND MENTAL HEALTH DURING COVID-19 OUTBREAK
| Autor: | Ayesha, Sarwar, Sumbul, Liaqat, Masood, H. M. U., Imra Nazish |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Generalized anxiety disorder
business.industry Outbreak Panic medicine.disease Mental health General Health Professions Well-being medicine Anxiety Social media General Pharmacology Toxicology and Pharmaceutics medicine.symptom business General Dentistry Depression (differential diagnoses) Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Khyber Medical University Journal. |
| ISSN: | 2305-2651 2305-2643 |
| DOI: | 10.35845/kmuj.2021.20668 |
| Popis: | OBJECTIVE: To investigate relationship of social media exposure with prevalence of depression and anxiety among general public in Lahore, Pakistan during the COVID-19 outbreak. METHODS: A web-based cross-sectional study was conducted via Google forms in June–July 2020 among Pakistani citizens aged ≥18 years. Purposive convenient sampling was done. The questionnaire constituted socio-demographic data, information regarding social media exposure, and scales to assess depression and anxiety. Social media exposure was measured by a questionnaire based on previous literature while depression and anxiety were measured by WHO-Five Well-Being Index (WHO-5) and Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD-7) scale respectively. Differences in depression and anxiety between groups and their associations with their social media use were examined through Chi-square test. RESULTS: Out of 516 participants who completed the questionnaire, 447 (86.6%) had frequent exposure to social media. Facebook (n=345; 66.9%) and WhatsApp (n=224; 43.4%) were the most used platforms to obtain COVID-19 related news. The prevalence of depression, anxiety, and combined depression and anxiety in the sample was 46.3% (n=239), 45.5% (n=235), and 29.7% (n=153) respectively. Statistically significant association was observed between depression and social media exposure (p |
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