Stress, Anxiety, and Depression in People Aged Over 60 in the COVID-19 Outbreak in a Sample Collected in Northern Spain

OBJECTIVE: This study examines the levels of stress, anxiety, and depression in people over 60 years of age at the time of the COVID-19 outbreak. DESIGN: The study used an exploratory-descriptive cross-sectional methodology. The resulting responses were analyzed using SPSS v.25 PARTICIPANTS: Partici...

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Autores principales: Picaza Gorrochategi, Maitane, Eiguren Munitis, Amaia, Dosil Santamaria, Maria, Ozamiz Etxebarria, Naiara
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Publicado: American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7261426/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32576424
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jagp.2020.05.022
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Eiguren Munitis, Amaia
Dosil Santamaria, Maria
Ozamiz Etxebarria, Naiara
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description OBJECTIVE: This study examines the levels of stress, anxiety, and depression in people over 60 years of age at the time of the COVID-19 outbreak. DESIGN: The study used an exploratory-descriptive cross-sectional methodology. The resulting responses were analyzed using SPSS v.25 PARTICIPANTS: Participants (N = 290) were aged 60 years and above. SETTING: The study was carried out in the Basque Country (North of Spain). MEASUREMENTS: Stress, anxiety, and depression were measured using the Anxiety and Stress Scale - 21 (DASS-21) RESULTS: Most of the participants did not report levels of stress, anxiety, and depression. Among participants age 66 and above and those with chronic illness, a proportion reported experiencing one, two or all three of these symptoms
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spelling pubmed-72614262020-06-01 Stress, Anxiety, and Depression in People Aged Over 60 in the COVID-19 Outbreak in a Sample Collected in Northern Spain Picaza Gorrochategi, Maitane Eiguren Munitis, Amaia Dosil Santamaria, Maria Ozamiz Etxebarria, Naiara Am J Geriatr Psychiatry Article OBJECTIVE: This study examines the levels of stress, anxiety, and depression in people over 60 years of age at the time of the COVID-19 outbreak. DESIGN: The study used an exploratory-descriptive cross-sectional methodology. The resulting responses were analyzed using SPSS v.25 PARTICIPANTS: Participants (N = 290) were aged 60 years and above. SETTING: The study was carried out in the Basque Country (North of Spain). MEASUREMENTS: Stress, anxiety, and depression were measured using the Anxiety and Stress Scale - 21 (DASS-21) RESULTS: Most of the participants did not report levels of stress, anxiety, and depression. Among participants age 66 and above and those with chronic illness, a proportion reported experiencing one, two or all three of these symptoms American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2020-09 2020-05-31 /pmc/articles/PMC7261426/ /pubmed/32576424 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jagp.2020.05.022 Text en © 2020 American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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title_short Stress, Anxiety, and Depression in People Aged Over 60 in the COVID-19 Outbreak in a Sample Collected in Northern Spain
title_sort stress, anxiety, and depression in people aged over 60 in the covid-19 outbreak in a sample collected in northern spain
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32576424
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jagp.2020.05.022
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