Touch hunger: trajectory and predictors of longing for physical contact during the COVID-19 pandemic in people with and without psychiatric disorders
| Autor: | S. E. Mann, A. L. Kok, N. Rius Ottenheim, E. J. Giltay, B. W. Penninx |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2024 |
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| Zdroj: | European Psychiatry, Vol 67, Pp S372-S372 (2024) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 0924-9338 1778-3585 |
| DOI: | 10.1192/j.eurpsy.2024.764 |
| Popis: | Introduction Little is known about touch hunger (longing for physical contact) during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly for people with pre-existing mental health disorders. Objectives We aim to investigate the dynamics of touch hunger in people with and without depressive, anxiety, or obsessive-compulsive disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the potential predictors for touch hunger during lockdown. Methods Data were aggregated from three Dutch ongoing prospective cohorts with similar methodology for data collection. We included participants with pre-pandemic data gathered during 2006–2016, and who completed up to 9 online questionnaires between October 2020 and February 2022. We compared trajectories between subgroups with different pre-pandemic chronicity of disorders and healthy controls using linear mixed models. Sociodemographic, clinical (number and type of mental health disorders, personality traits) and COVID-19-related variables were analysed as predictors of touch hunger using multivariate linear regression analyses. Results We included 1061 participants with (n = 811) and without (n = 250) mental health disorders. In all groups, touch hunger increased during lockdown (Fig. 1). Extraversion (β = 0.256, P |
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