Age- and gender-related differences in the evolution of psychological and cognitive status after the lockdown for the COVID-19 outbreak: a follow-up study
| Autor: | Raffaele Nappo, Gabriella Santangelo, Nicola Davide Cavallo, Andrea Barbaro, Ivana Baldassarre, Gianpaolo Maggi, Maria Cropano |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Maggi, G., Baldassarre, I., Barbaro, A., Cavallo, N. D., Cropano, M., Nappo, R., Santangelo, G. |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Coping (psychology)
media_common.quotation_subject Cognitive difficulties Psychological intervention Dermatology Anger Anxiety Longitudinal change Disease Outbreaks Young Adult Cognition medicine Humans Young adult Pandemics media_common Aged business.industry Depression SARS-CoV-2 Cognitive difficultie COVID-19 Gender General Medicine Mental health Psychiatry and Mental health Mental Health Longitudinal changes Communicable Disease Control Female Neurology (clinical) Psychological resilience medicine.symptom business Stress Psychological Clinical psychology Follow-Up Studies Young adults |
| Zdroj: | Neurological Sciences |
| ISSN: | 1590-3478 |
| Popis: | Objective Individuals experienced psychological symptoms in response to quarantine for the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, we aimed to investigate the possible effect of age and gender on the evolution of mental health status after the quarantine in the Italian population and the baseline predictors of post-traumatic stress symptoms. Methods An online follow-up questionnaire including an assessment of depression, anxiety, anger, post-traumatic stress, subjective cognitive failures, resilience, and coping style was completed by participants 2 months after the end of the quarantine (n = 758). Results Individuals experienced psychological symptoms also 2 months after the end of the quarantine. No decrease in depression and anxiety scores emerged, but younger individuals and females experienced more severe symptoms. Anger symptoms decreased in young adults, whereas they increased in older adults. Moreover, individuals reported more cognitive failures at follow-up. No changes were observed in resilience, whereas participants reported adopting fewer coping strategies at follow-up. Finally, post-traumatic stress symptoms 2 months after the end of the lockdown were associated with more severe psychological symptoms and more fear of getting infected at baseline. Conclusions Our findings demonstrate that the long-term psychological impact and the cognitive consequences of quarantine differ according to age and gender. The identification of more vulnerable groups allows the implementation of interventions to reduce psychological symptoms and the risk for cognitive impairment. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10072-021-05768-0. |
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