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Psychological Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Hungarian Adults
We aimed to explore psychological effects of the coronavirus pandemic on Hungarian adults in the time of the national quarantine situation in May 2020.We conducted a cross-sectional observational study with the use of an anonymous online questionnaire that consisted of 65 items. The following measur...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7766563/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33371250 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17249565 |
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author | Szabó, Csanád Pukánszky, Judit Kemény, Lajos |
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description | We aimed to explore psychological effects of the coronavirus pandemic on Hungarian adults in the time of the national quarantine situation in May 2020.We conducted a cross-sectional observational study with the use of an anonymous online questionnaire that consisted of 65 items. The following measuring instruments were used: Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10); The General Anxiety Disorder Assessment (GAD)-2; The Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ)-2; European Quality of Life Visual Analogue Scale (EQ-VAS); Self-administered inventory of complaints (Hungarian questionnaire); Shortened (Hungarian) version of the Ways of Coping Questionnaire; 2 open-ended questions to examine the participants’ mood and ways of coping during the pandemic. The data of 431 participants were analyzed, their average age was 47.53 ± 11.66 years, and the percentage of females was 90%. The mean of participants’ scores were the following: 19.34 ± 7.97 for perceived stress, 73.05 ± 21.73 for health status, and 8.68 ± 4.65 for neurotic complaints. Thirty-four and one-tenth percent of participants were depressed, 36.2% were anxious, and they tended to use problem-focused coping strategies more frequently than emotion-focused ones. We found significant correlations between all of the seven examined psychological variables. Our results highlight the importance of stress management in the psychological support of healthy adults in quarantine situation caused by the coronavirus pandemic. |
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spelling | pubmed-77665632020-12-28 Psychological Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Hungarian Adults Szabó, Csanád Pukánszky, Judit Kemény, Lajos Int J Environ Res Public Health Article We aimed to explore psychological effects of the coronavirus pandemic on Hungarian adults in the time of the national quarantine situation in May 2020.We conducted a cross-sectional observational study with the use of an anonymous online questionnaire that consisted of 65 items. The following measuring instruments were used: Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10); The General Anxiety Disorder Assessment (GAD)-2; The Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ)-2; European Quality of Life Visual Analogue Scale (EQ-VAS); Self-administered inventory of complaints (Hungarian questionnaire); Shortened (Hungarian) version of the Ways of Coping Questionnaire; 2 open-ended questions to examine the participants’ mood and ways of coping during the pandemic. The data of 431 participants were analyzed, their average age was 47.53 ± 11.66 years, and the percentage of females was 90%. The mean of participants’ scores were the following: 19.34 ± 7.97 for perceived stress, 73.05 ± 21.73 for health status, and 8.68 ± 4.65 for neurotic complaints. Thirty-four and one-tenth percent of participants were depressed, 36.2% were anxious, and they tended to use problem-focused coping strategies more frequently than emotion-focused ones. We found significant correlations between all of the seven examined psychological variables. Our results highlight the importance of stress management in the psychological support of healthy adults in quarantine situation caused by the coronavirus pandemic. MDPI 2020-12-21 2020-12 /pmc/articles/PMC7766563/ /pubmed/33371250 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17249565 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Szabó, Csanád Pukánszky, Judit Kemény, Lajos Psychological Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Hungarian Adults |
title | Psychological Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Hungarian Adults |
title_full | Psychological Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Hungarian Adults |
title_fullStr | Psychological Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Hungarian Adults |
title_full_unstemmed | Psychological Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Hungarian Adults |
title_short | Psychological Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Hungarian Adults |
title_sort | psychological effects of the covid-19 pandemic on hungarian adults |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7766563/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33371250 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17249565 |
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