L’anxiété chez le jeune adulte et chez le sujet âgé pendant le confinement lié à la pandémie du SARS-CoV2

Among the elderly, certain disorders such as depression are difficult to diagnose and have a different aspect from the pathology occurring in young adults. In this study, we set out to assess levels of anxiety via somatization among the participants in order to highlight any differences between anxiety among young adults and anxiety among the elderly. This study is a follow-up to a previously published report on a newly established somatization scale. The statistical analyses were carried out on the same population. This work used the somatization scale on a sample of 235 participants over the age of 18. The participants were men and women who were subjected to lockdown in Morocco during the SARS-CoV2 pandemic. We found that young adults exhibited more intense anxiety than the elderly during this period of confinement and that the elderly subjects were more likely to experience so-called “normal” anxiety following the COVID-19 pandemic.