The loneliness pandemic: Loneliness and other concomitants of depression, anxiety and their comorbidity during the COVID-19 outbreak
| Autor: | Yaakov Hoffman, Lia Ring, Ehud Bodner, Amit Shrira, Sara Cohen-Fridel, Yuval Palgi, Yoav S. Bergman, Shoshi Keisari, Sharon Avidor |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry Outbreak Loneliness Disease medicine.disease_cause medicine.disease Comorbidity Article 030227 psychiatry 03 medical and health sciences Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology 0302 clinical medicine Pandemic medicine Anxiety medicine.symptom Psychiatry business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Depression (differential diagnoses) Coronavirus |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Affective Disorders |
| ISSN: | 1573-2517 |
| Popis: | Since its outbreak, in December 2019, the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has rapidly spread into a global pandemic. Many people infected with the coronavirus experience mild to moderate respiratory difficulties, and in extreme cases, serious illness and death (Lipsitch et al., 2020). Due to a lack of specific treatment, the swift spread of the pandemic has triggered various psychiatric symptoms such as depression and anxiety (Xiang et al., 2020). Previous studies showed that depression and anxiety were highly prevalent in pandemics, and tended to appear in comorbidity among SARS survivors (Mak et al., 2009). Therefore, these psychiatric problems and their comorbidity may be another result of the novel coronavirus outbreak. In many countries, the age benchmark of 60 was used to demark those at high-risk for COVID-19 complications (Murthy et al., 2020). Thus, our first goal was to compare psychiatric symptoms of depression, anxiety and their comorbidity between those at low- and high-risk for COVID-19 complications. Our second goal was to address the psychiatric effects of social-distancing (Mizumoto and Chowell, 2020), a policy adopted in the absence of specific medical treatments. A central potential outcome of such social-distancing policy is loneliness, defined as a discrepancy between desired and perceived social relationships (Jeste et al., 2020). Loneliness is linked with a myriad of deleterious physical and mental consequences (e.g., Heinrich and Gullone, 2006). To the best of our knowledge, the present study is among the first to evaluate COVID-19 related psychiatric symptoms of depression and anxiety, and their comorbidity in a Western society (Israel), where restrictive social-distancing has been employed. |
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