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COVID-19 and Anxiety Sensitivity Across Two Studies in Argentina: Associations with COVID-19 Worry, Symptom Severity, Anxiety, and Functional Impairment

BACKGROUND: The novel 2019 SARS2-Coronavirus (COVID-19) has had a devastating physical health, mental health, and economic impact, causing millions of infections and hundreds of thousands of deaths. While COVID-19 has impacted the entire world, COVID-19 has disproportionately impacted low-income cou...

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Autores principales: Rogers, Andrew H., Bogiaizian, Daniel, Salazar, Patricio López, Solari, Adrian, Garey, Lorra, Fogle, Brienna M., Schmidt, Norman B., Zvolensky, Michael J.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7778696/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33424059
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10608-020-10194-1
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author Rogers, Andrew H.
Bogiaizian, Daniel
Salazar, Patricio López
Solari, Adrian
Garey, Lorra
Fogle, Brienna M.
Schmidt, Norman B.
Zvolensky, Michael J.
author_facet Rogers, Andrew H.
Bogiaizian, Daniel
Salazar, Patricio López
Solari, Adrian
Garey, Lorra
Fogle, Brienna M.
Schmidt, Norman B.
Zvolensky, Michael J.
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description BACKGROUND: The novel 2019 SARS2-Coronavirus (COVID-19) has had a devastating physical health, mental health, and economic impact, causing millions of infections and hundreds of thousands of deaths. While COVID-19 has impacted the entire world, COVID-19 has disproportionately impacted low-income countries, particularly in South America, causing not only increased mortality but also increased associated mental health complaints. Anxiety sensitivity (AS), reflecting fear of anxiety-related physical sensations, may be particularly important to understand COVID-19 mental health effects among Latinx individuals in South America (Argentina). Past work suggests that Latinx individuals report greater somatization of mental health symptoms, and AS has been specifically linked to greater mental health symptoms. Yet, to date, no work has examined AS as a vulnerability factor for the negative mental health effects of COVID-19. METHOD: Therefore, the current manuscript examined the association of AS with COVID-19 worry, functional impairment, anxiety, and symptom severity across two samples of adults in Argentina: a community sample (n = 105, M(age) = 38.58, SD = 14.07, 69.5% female) and a clinical sample comprised of individuals with an anxiety disorder (n = 99, M(age) = 34.99, SD = 10.83, 66.7% female). RESULTS: Results from the current study provide support for AS as a potential vulnerability factor for COVID-19-related mental health problems across both samples, and these effects were evident over and above the variance accounted for by age, sex, pre-existing medical conditions, and COVID-19 exposure. CONCLUSIONS: These data identify AS as a potential intervention target to reduce COVID-19 mental health burden among adults in Argentina.
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spelling pubmed-77786962021-01-04 COVID-19 and Anxiety Sensitivity Across Two Studies in Argentina: Associations with COVID-19 Worry, Symptom Severity, Anxiety, and Functional Impairment Rogers, Andrew H. Bogiaizian, Daniel Salazar, Patricio López Solari, Adrian Garey, Lorra Fogle, Brienna M. Schmidt, Norman B. Zvolensky, Michael J. Cognit Ther Res Original Article BACKGROUND: The novel 2019 SARS2-Coronavirus (COVID-19) has had a devastating physical health, mental health, and economic impact, causing millions of infections and hundreds of thousands of deaths. While COVID-19 has impacted the entire world, COVID-19 has disproportionately impacted low-income countries, particularly in South America, causing not only increased mortality but also increased associated mental health complaints. Anxiety sensitivity (AS), reflecting fear of anxiety-related physical sensations, may be particularly important to understand COVID-19 mental health effects among Latinx individuals in South America (Argentina). Past work suggests that Latinx individuals report greater somatization of mental health symptoms, and AS has been specifically linked to greater mental health symptoms. Yet, to date, no work has examined AS as a vulnerability factor for the negative mental health effects of COVID-19. METHOD: Therefore, the current manuscript examined the association of AS with COVID-19 worry, functional impairment, anxiety, and symptom severity across two samples of adults in Argentina: a community sample (n = 105, M(age) = 38.58, SD = 14.07, 69.5% female) and a clinical sample comprised of individuals with an anxiety disorder (n = 99, M(age) = 34.99, SD = 10.83, 66.7% female). RESULTS: Results from the current study provide support for AS as a potential vulnerability factor for COVID-19-related mental health problems across both samples, and these effects were evident over and above the variance accounted for by age, sex, pre-existing medical conditions, and COVID-19 exposure. CONCLUSIONS: These data identify AS as a potential intervention target to reduce COVID-19 mental health burden among adults in Argentina. Springer US 2021-01-03 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC7778696/ /pubmed/33424059 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10608-020-10194-1 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC part of Springer Nature 2021 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 Article
Rogers, Andrew H.
Bogiaizian, Daniel
Salazar, Patricio López
Solari, Adrian
Garey, Lorra
Fogle, Brienna M.
Schmidt, Norman B.
Zvolensky, Michael J.
COVID-19 and Anxiety Sensitivity Across Two Studies in Argentina: Associations with COVID-19 Worry, Symptom Severity, Anxiety, and Functional Impairment
title COVID-19 and Anxiety Sensitivity Across Two Studies in Argentina: Associations with COVID-19 Worry, Symptom Severity, Anxiety, and Functional Impairment
title_full COVID-19 and Anxiety Sensitivity Across Two Studies in Argentina: Associations with COVID-19 Worry, Symptom Severity, Anxiety, and Functional Impairment
title_fullStr COVID-19 and Anxiety Sensitivity Across Two Studies in Argentina: Associations with COVID-19 Worry, Symptom Severity, Anxiety, and Functional Impairment
title_full_unstemmed COVID-19 and Anxiety Sensitivity Across Two Studies in Argentina: Associations with COVID-19 Worry, Symptom Severity, Anxiety, and Functional Impairment
title_short COVID-19 and Anxiety Sensitivity Across Two Studies in Argentina: Associations with COVID-19 Worry, Symptom Severity, Anxiety, and Functional Impairment
title_sort covid-19 and anxiety sensitivity across two studies in argentina: associations with covid-19 worry, symptom severity, anxiety, and functional impairment
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7778696/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33424059
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10608-020-10194-1
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