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Psychosocial impacts of COVID-19 in the Guinean population. An online cross-sectional survey
Guinea, like many other African countries, has been facing an unprecedented COVID-19 outbreak, since March 2020. In April 2020, Guinean National agency for health security recorded 1351 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 313 recoveries and 07 deaths. To address this health crisis, some drastic m...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7853443/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33529216 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0245751 |
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author | Touré, Almamy Amara Camara, Lansana Mady Magassouba, Aboubacar Sidiki Doumbouya, Abdoulaye Camara, Gnoume Camara, Alsény Yarie Loua, Gaspard Cissé, Diao Sylla, Mohamed Bereté, Alpha Oumar Beavogui, Abdoul Habib |
author_facet | Touré, Almamy Amara Camara, Lansana Mady Magassouba, Aboubacar Sidiki Doumbouya, Abdoulaye Camara, Gnoume Camara, Alsény Yarie Loua, Gaspard Cissé, Diao Sylla, Mohamed Bereté, Alpha Oumar Beavogui, Abdoul Habib |
author_sort | Touré, Almamy Amara |
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description | Guinea, like many other African countries, has been facing an unprecedented COVID-19 outbreak, since March 2020. In April 2020, Guinean National agency for health security recorded 1351 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 313 recoveries and 07 deaths. To address this health crisis, some drastic measures were implemented to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Those measures might potentially cause some psychological problems among Guineans. Thus, we conducted this study to assess the psychosocial impacts of COVID-19 in the Guinean population. We carried out an online cross-sectional survey among internet users in Guinea. A free e-survey platform was used, and questionnaires were sent to internet users. The study ran from May 1 through May 10 2020. Participation in the study was voluntary. Data collection was based on sociodemographic information and self-reported questionnaires: Impact of Event Scale-Revised (IES-R) for stress evaluation, Penn state worry questionnaire (PSWQ), and an adapted Social Psychological Measurements of COVID-19. A total of 280 participants took part in the study; responses from 5 participants were deleted because of incompleteness. The average age of participants was 28.9 [95% CI: 28.1;29.6]. Most of participants were male 65.5% [95% CI: 59.5%;71.1%]. Unemployed participants stood for 48.7% [95% CI: 42.7%;54.8%]. IES-R scale for stress evaluation yielded the following findings: 19.6% (mild), 5.23% (moderate) and 9.15% (severe); 82.8% and 17.2% of participants had respectively reported low and moderate worry. No significant statistical association was found between sociodemographic variables and traumatic events (IES-R and PSWQ). However, 82% of our participants had to cope with the negative impacts of COVID-19. Although there were few cases of traumatic events, negative impacts of COVID-19 on study participants deserve to be underlined. So, further investigations are necessary to identify and disentangle specific psychosocial problems in different Guinean socio-cultural contexts. |
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spelling | pubmed-78534432021-02-09 Psychosocial impacts of COVID-19 in the Guinean population. An online cross-sectional survey Touré, Almamy Amara Camara, Lansana Mady Magassouba, Aboubacar Sidiki Doumbouya, Abdoulaye Camara, Gnoume Camara, Alsény Yarie Loua, Gaspard Cissé, Diao Sylla, Mohamed Bereté, Alpha Oumar Beavogui, Abdoul Habib PLoS One Research Article Guinea, like many other African countries, has been facing an unprecedented COVID-19 outbreak, since March 2020. In April 2020, Guinean National agency for health security recorded 1351 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 313 recoveries and 07 deaths. To address this health crisis, some drastic measures were implemented to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Those measures might potentially cause some psychological problems among Guineans. Thus, we conducted this study to assess the psychosocial impacts of COVID-19 in the Guinean population. We carried out an online cross-sectional survey among internet users in Guinea. A free e-survey platform was used, and questionnaires were sent to internet users. The study ran from May 1 through May 10 2020. Participation in the study was voluntary. Data collection was based on sociodemographic information and self-reported questionnaires: Impact of Event Scale-Revised (IES-R) for stress evaluation, Penn state worry questionnaire (PSWQ), and an adapted Social Psychological Measurements of COVID-19. A total of 280 participants took part in the study; responses from 5 participants were deleted because of incompleteness. The average age of participants was 28.9 [95% CI: 28.1;29.6]. Most of participants were male 65.5% [95% CI: 59.5%;71.1%]. Unemployed participants stood for 48.7% [95% CI: 42.7%;54.8%]. IES-R scale for stress evaluation yielded the following findings: 19.6% (mild), 5.23% (moderate) and 9.15% (severe); 82.8% and 17.2% of participants had respectively reported low and moderate worry. No significant statistical association was found between sociodemographic variables and traumatic events (IES-R and PSWQ). However, 82% of our participants had to cope with the negative impacts of COVID-19. Although there were few cases of traumatic events, negative impacts of COVID-19 on study participants deserve to be underlined. So, further investigations are necessary to identify and disentangle specific psychosocial problems in different Guinean socio-cultural contexts. Public Library of Science 2021-02-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7853443/ /pubmed/33529216 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0245751 Text en © 2021 Touré et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Touré, Almamy Amara Camara, Lansana Mady Magassouba, Aboubacar Sidiki Doumbouya, Abdoulaye Camara, Gnoume Camara, Alsény Yarie Loua, Gaspard Cissé, Diao Sylla, Mohamed Bereté, Alpha Oumar Beavogui, Abdoul Habib Psychosocial impacts of COVID-19 in the Guinean population. An online cross-sectional survey |
title | Psychosocial impacts of COVID-19 in the Guinean population. An online cross-sectional survey |
title_full | Psychosocial impacts of COVID-19 in the Guinean population. An online cross-sectional survey |
title_fullStr | Psychosocial impacts of COVID-19 in the Guinean population. An online cross-sectional survey |
title_full_unstemmed | Psychosocial impacts of COVID-19 in the Guinean population. An online cross-sectional survey |
title_short | Psychosocial impacts of COVID-19 in the Guinean population. An online cross-sectional survey |
title_sort | psychosocial impacts of covid-19 in the guinean population. an online cross-sectional survey |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7853443/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33529216 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0245751 |
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