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Post-traumatic stress, anxiety, and depressive symptoms in caregivers of children tested for COVID-19 in the acute phase of the Italian outbreak

BACKGROUND: The recent COVID-19 pandemic pointed out new burdens for researchers on mental health and that evidence-based (EB) studies on vulnerable populations are timely needed. The present paper aims at analysing the impact of suspicious of SARS-COV-2 infection in a cohort of parents presented at...

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Autores principales: Orsini, A., Corsi, M., Pedrinelli, V., Santangelo, A., Bertelloni, C., Dell’Oste, V., Cordelli, D., Perrone, A., Parini, L., Lanari, M., Massimetti, G., Bonuccelli, A., Foiadelli, T., Trabatti, C., Savasta, S., Marseglia, G., Striano, P., Peroni, D.G., Dell’Osso, L., Carmassi, C.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Ltd. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7825987/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33508545
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2021.01.024
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author Orsini, A.
Corsi, M.
Pedrinelli, V.
Santangelo, A.
Bertelloni, C.
Dell’Oste, V.
Cordelli, D.
Perrone, A.
Parini, L.
Lanari, M.
Massimetti, G.
Bonuccelli, A.
Foiadelli, T.
Trabatti, C.
Savasta, S.
Marseglia, G.
Striano, P.
Peroni, D.G.
Dell’Osso, L.
Carmassi, C.
author_facet Orsini, A.
Corsi, M.
Pedrinelli, V.
Santangelo, A.
Bertelloni, C.
Dell’Oste, V.
Cordelli, D.
Perrone, A.
Parini, L.
Lanari, M.
Massimetti, G.
Bonuccelli, A.
Foiadelli, T.
Trabatti, C.
Savasta, S.
Marseglia, G.
Striano, P.
Peroni, D.G.
Dell’Osso, L.
Carmassi, C.
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description BACKGROUND: The recent COVID-19 pandemic pointed out new burdens for researchers on mental health and that evidence-based (EB) studies on vulnerable populations are timely needed. The present paper aims at analysing the impact of suspicious of SARS-COV-2 infection in a cohort of parents presented at 3 major hospitals (spread between north and center of Italy) during the Italian COVID-19 pandemic phase 1. METHODS: Participants of the present cross-sectional, multicenter study were parental couples of children suspected to have COVID-19 who underwent testing with nasopharyngeal swabbing. All subjects were assessed by means of the: Impact of Event Scale-Revised (IES-R), Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-Item (GAD-7) and Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) in order to evaluate Post-traumatic stress (PTSS), anxiety, and depressive symptoms, respectively. OUTCOMES: Results evidenced that parents whose children tested positive for COVID-19 were more prone to developing PTSS, anxiety and depressive symptoms. The same results emerged for parents who had quarantined as opposed to those who had not. Moreover, patients who suffered economic damage showed a higher prevalence of anxiety and depressive symptoms, whereas PTSS was more common among unemployed subjects and among mothers. INTERPRETATION: This study identified a mental health strain represented by parenting a child who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 infection. Further EB research is needed to develop evidence-driven strategies to reduce adverse psychological impacts and related psychiatric symptoms in caregivers of COVID-19 infected children during the next phases of the pandemic.
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spelling pubmed-78259872021-01-25 Post-traumatic stress, anxiety, and depressive symptoms in caregivers of children tested for COVID-19 in the acute phase of the Italian outbreak Orsini, A. Corsi, M. Pedrinelli, V. Santangelo, A. Bertelloni, C. Dell’Oste, V. Cordelli, D. Perrone, A. Parini, L. Lanari, M. Massimetti, G. Bonuccelli, A. Foiadelli, T. Trabatti, C. Savasta, S. Marseglia, G. Striano, P. Peroni, D.G. Dell’Osso, L. Carmassi, C. J Psychiatr Res Article BACKGROUND: The recent COVID-19 pandemic pointed out new burdens for researchers on mental health and that evidence-based (EB) studies on vulnerable populations are timely needed. The present paper aims at analysing the impact of suspicious of SARS-COV-2 infection in a cohort of parents presented at 3 major hospitals (spread between north and center of Italy) during the Italian COVID-19 pandemic phase 1. METHODS: Participants of the present cross-sectional, multicenter study were parental couples of children suspected to have COVID-19 who underwent testing with nasopharyngeal swabbing. All subjects were assessed by means of the: Impact of Event Scale-Revised (IES-R), Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-Item (GAD-7) and Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) in order to evaluate Post-traumatic stress (PTSS), anxiety, and depressive symptoms, respectively. OUTCOMES: Results evidenced that parents whose children tested positive for COVID-19 were more prone to developing PTSS, anxiety and depressive symptoms. The same results emerged for parents who had quarantined as opposed to those who had not. Moreover, patients who suffered economic damage showed a higher prevalence of anxiety and depressive symptoms, whereas PTSS was more common among unemployed subjects and among mothers. INTERPRETATION: This study identified a mental health strain represented by parenting a child who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 infection. Further EB research is needed to develop evidence-driven strategies to reduce adverse psychological impacts and related psychiatric symptoms in caregivers of COVID-19 infected children during the next phases of the pandemic. Elsevier Ltd. 2021-03 2021-01-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7825987/ /pubmed/33508545 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2021.01.024 Text en © 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Orsini, A.
Corsi, M.
Pedrinelli, V.
Santangelo, A.
Bertelloni, C.
Dell’Oste, V.
Cordelli, D.
Perrone, A.
Parini, L.
Lanari, M.
Massimetti, G.
Bonuccelli, A.
Foiadelli, T.
Trabatti, C.
Savasta, S.
Marseglia, G.
Striano, P.
Peroni, D.G.
Dell’Osso, L.
Carmassi, C.
Post-traumatic stress, anxiety, and depressive symptoms in caregivers of children tested for COVID-19 in the acute phase of the Italian outbreak
title Post-traumatic stress, anxiety, and depressive symptoms in caregivers of children tested for COVID-19 in the acute phase of the Italian outbreak
title_full Post-traumatic stress, anxiety, and depressive symptoms in caregivers of children tested for COVID-19 in the acute phase of the Italian outbreak
title_fullStr Post-traumatic stress, anxiety, and depressive symptoms in caregivers of children tested for COVID-19 in the acute phase of the Italian outbreak
title_full_unstemmed Post-traumatic stress, anxiety, and depressive symptoms in caregivers of children tested for COVID-19 in the acute phase of the Italian outbreak
title_short Post-traumatic stress, anxiety, and depressive symptoms in caregivers of children tested for COVID-19 in the acute phase of the Italian outbreak
title_sort post-traumatic stress, anxiety, and depressive symptoms in caregivers of children tested for covid-19 in the acute phase of the italian outbreak
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7825987/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33508545
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2021.01.024
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