Emotional symptoms and their related factors in adolescents during the acute phase of Covid-19 outbreak in South Italy
| Autor: | Simone Pisano, Vincenzo Paolo Senese, Anna Pezzella, Gennaro Catone, Carmela Bravaccio, Antonella Gritti, Luisa Almerico, Pia Santangelo, Raffaella Iuliano |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Pisano, S., Catone, G., Gritti, A., Almerico, L., Pezzella, A., Santangelo, P., Bravaccio, C., Iuliano, R., Senese, V. P., Pisano, Simone, Catone, Gennaro, Gritti, Antonella, Almerico, Luisa, Pezzella, Anna, Santangelo, Pia, Bravaccio, Carmela, Iuliano, Raffaella, Senese, Vincenzo Paolo |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Youth Adolescent Population Emotions Context (language use) Anxiety 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Surveys and Questionnaires Pandemic Anxiety symptoms medicine Humans Surveys and Questionnaire 030212 general & internal medicine Anxiety symptom education Pandemics Depression (differential diagnoses) education.field_of_study Descriptive statistics business.industry Depression SARS-CoV-2 Research Depressive symptoms lcsh:RJ1-570 Outbreak COVID-19 lcsh:Pediatrics Depressive symptom Italy Quarantine Female medicine.symptom business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Clinical psychology Psychopathology Human |
| Zdroj: | Italian Journal of Pediatrics, Vol 47, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2021) Italian Journal of Pediatrics |
| Popis: | Background Several studies have shown that during COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, emotional symptoms increased in the general population. Less is known about youths. Methods We surveyed a sample of Italian adolescents during the strictest quarantine period and assessed the effects of socio-demographic and psychological factors on current emotional symptoms. A convenient sample of 326 adolescents (age range 14–19 years) participated in a web-based survey. We collected data on several socio-demographic and psychological variables (summarized into three indexes: environmental context, changes in lifestyle, and worries about infection) and psychopathological symptoms (previous psychopathological status, current anxiety and depressive symptoms). Results Descriptive analysis showed that adolescents have experienced quarantine under very different conditions; they reported 47.5 and 14.1% of anxiety and depressive symptoms, respectively. Regression analyses indicated that previous psychopathological status and worries about infection are linked to anxiety and that female gender, previous psychopathological status (moderated by change in lifestyle), worse environmental context are linked to depression. Conclusion This study indicates that, facing the COVID-19 pandemic and its related safety measures, adolescents show relevant emotional symptoms and therefore should be monitored, assessed and supported. |
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