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Physical and Psychological Impact of the Phase One Lockdown for COVID-19 on Italians
The exceptional pandemic due to the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has obliged all Italians to stay at home. In the literature, there are evidences that traumatic global events, such as natural catastrophes and pandemic, have negative effects on the physical and psychological health of the popu...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7773646/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33391079 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.563722 |
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author | Tommasi, Marco Toro, Francesca Arnò, Simone Carrieri, Angelo Conte, Marco Maria Devastato, Marianna Daria Picconi, Laura Sergi, Maria Rita Saggino, Aristide |
author_facet | Tommasi, Marco Toro, Francesca Arnò, Simone Carrieri, Angelo Conte, Marco Maria Devastato, Marianna Daria Picconi, Laura Sergi, Maria Rita Saggino, Aristide |
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description | The exceptional pandemic due to the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has obliged all Italians to stay at home. In the literature, there are evidences that traumatic global events, such as natural catastrophes and pandemic, have negative effects on the physical and psychological health of the population. We carried out a survey to analyze the physical and psychological conditions of Italians during the pandemic. Due to the severe limitations in moving during the phase one lockdown, the survey was administered by internet. Results show that Italians followed the provisions established by the Italian government to avoid contamination, but 43% of them declared to have suffered from physical symptoms, in particular migraine, sleep disorders, persistent exhaustion, and difficulty of concentration. They have great fear to be contaminated or that relatives or friends can be contaminated, and they actively take actions to avoid contamination. Participants declared that they had suffered a lot of inconveniences due to restrictions in their movements, and that their life habits were strongly changed. They spent their time at home in different activities, but their psychological well-being was strongly impaired by the lockdown. The level of anxiety tripled, in relation to the prepandemic period, and 30% of males and 41% of females declared to have severe levels of depression. Participants with high levels of optimism and hopefulness show a stronger resilience against anxiety and depression. In addition, there is a negative correlation between anxiety and depression and the five factors of personality. These results show that psychological diseases must not be neglected, and that people in lockdown do need support for their psychological health, also with the help of internet and communication technologies. |
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spelling | pubmed-77736462021-01-01 Physical and Psychological Impact of the Phase One Lockdown for COVID-19 on Italians Tommasi, Marco Toro, Francesca Arnò, Simone Carrieri, Angelo Conte, Marco Maria Devastato, Marianna Daria Picconi, Laura Sergi, Maria Rita Saggino, Aristide Front Psychol Psychology The exceptional pandemic due to the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has obliged all Italians to stay at home. In the literature, there are evidences that traumatic global events, such as natural catastrophes and pandemic, have negative effects on the physical and psychological health of the population. We carried out a survey to analyze the physical and psychological conditions of Italians during the pandemic. Due to the severe limitations in moving during the phase one lockdown, the survey was administered by internet. Results show that Italians followed the provisions established by the Italian government to avoid contamination, but 43% of them declared to have suffered from physical symptoms, in particular migraine, sleep disorders, persistent exhaustion, and difficulty of concentration. They have great fear to be contaminated or that relatives or friends can be contaminated, and they actively take actions to avoid contamination. Participants declared that they had suffered a lot of inconveniences due to restrictions in their movements, and that their life habits were strongly changed. They spent their time at home in different activities, but their psychological well-being was strongly impaired by the lockdown. The level of anxiety tripled, in relation to the prepandemic period, and 30% of males and 41% of females declared to have severe levels of depression. Participants with high levels of optimism and hopefulness show a stronger resilience against anxiety and depression. In addition, there is a negative correlation between anxiety and depression and the five factors of personality. These results show that psychological diseases must not be neglected, and that people in lockdown do need support for their psychological health, also with the help of internet and communication technologies. Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-12-17 /pmc/articles/PMC7773646/ /pubmed/33391079 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.563722 Text en Copyright © 2020 Tommasi, Toro, Arnò, Carrieri, Conte, Devastato, Picconi, Sergi and Saggino. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Tommasi, Marco Toro, Francesca Arnò, Simone Carrieri, Angelo Conte, Marco Maria Devastato, Marianna Daria Picconi, Laura Sergi, Maria Rita Saggino, Aristide Physical and Psychological Impact of the Phase One Lockdown for COVID-19 on Italians |
title | Physical and Psychological Impact of the Phase One Lockdown for COVID-19 on Italians |
title_full | Physical and Psychological Impact of the Phase One Lockdown for COVID-19 on Italians |
title_fullStr | Physical and Psychological Impact of the Phase One Lockdown for COVID-19 on Italians |
title_full_unstemmed | Physical and Psychological Impact of the Phase One Lockdown for COVID-19 on Italians |
title_short | Physical and Psychological Impact of the Phase One Lockdown for COVID-19 on Italians |
title_sort | physical and psychological impact of the phase one lockdown for covid-19 on italians |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7773646/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33391079 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.563722 |
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