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Psychological Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Public in Egypt
This study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of depression, anxiety, stress, and inadequate sleeping among the public in Egypt during the novel Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic. An online snowball sampling approach was used to collect data from netizens in four Egyptian governorates between 1...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7429137/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32803445 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10597-020-00701-9 |
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author | Arafa, Ahmed Mohamed, Amel Saleh, Lamiaa Senosy, Shaimaa |
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description | This study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of depression, anxiety, stress, and inadequate sleeping among the public in Egypt during the novel Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic. An online snowball sampling approach was used to collect data from netizens in four Egyptian governorates between 16 and 30 April 2020. A semi-structured questionnaire was designed to assess sociodemographic characteristics, sleeping hours per day, and psychological disturbances (depression, anxiety, and stress) of participants using the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale-21. Out of 1629 participants, 48.1% were aged ≤ 30 years, 42.4% were men, and 20.0% were working in the health sector. The participants reported a high prevalence of depression (67.1%: mild to moderate 44.6% and severe to very severe 22.5%), anxiety (53.5%: mild to moderate 30.6% and severe to very severe 22.9%), stress (48.8%: mild to moderate 33.8% and severe to very severe 15.0%), and inadequate sleeping (< 6 h/day) 23.1%. Female sex, working in sectors other than the health sector, watching/reading COVID-19 news ≥ 2 h/day, and lack of emotional support from family and society were associated with a high prevalence of severe to very severe depression, anxiety, and stress. In conclusion, the psychological impacts of COVID-19 on the public in Egypt were enormous, therefore, providing psychological support and counsel is warranted. |
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spelling | pubmed-74291372020-08-17 Psychological Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Public in Egypt Arafa, Ahmed Mohamed, Amel Saleh, Lamiaa Senosy, Shaimaa Community Ment Health J Original Paper This study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of depression, anxiety, stress, and inadequate sleeping among the public in Egypt during the novel Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic. An online snowball sampling approach was used to collect data from netizens in four Egyptian governorates between 16 and 30 April 2020. A semi-structured questionnaire was designed to assess sociodemographic characteristics, sleeping hours per day, and psychological disturbances (depression, anxiety, and stress) of participants using the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale-21. Out of 1629 participants, 48.1% were aged ≤ 30 years, 42.4% were men, and 20.0% were working in the health sector. The participants reported a high prevalence of depression (67.1%: mild to moderate 44.6% and severe to very severe 22.5%), anxiety (53.5%: mild to moderate 30.6% and severe to very severe 22.9%), stress (48.8%: mild to moderate 33.8% and severe to very severe 15.0%), and inadequate sleeping (< 6 h/day) 23.1%. Female sex, working in sectors other than the health sector, watching/reading COVID-19 news ≥ 2 h/day, and lack of emotional support from family and society were associated with a high prevalence of severe to very severe depression, anxiety, and stress. In conclusion, the psychological impacts of COVID-19 on the public in Egypt were enormous, therefore, providing psychological support and counsel is warranted. Springer US 2020-08-16 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC7429137/ /pubmed/32803445 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10597-020-00701-9 Text en © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Original Paper Arafa, Ahmed Mohamed, Amel Saleh, Lamiaa Senosy, Shaimaa Psychological Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Public in Egypt |
title | Psychological Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Public in Egypt |
title_full | Psychological Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Public in Egypt |
title_fullStr | Psychological Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Public in Egypt |
title_full_unstemmed | Psychological Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Public in Egypt |
title_short | Psychological Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Public in Egypt |
title_sort | psychological impacts of the covid-19 pandemic on the public in egypt |
topic | Original Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7429137/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32803445 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10597-020-00701-9 |
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