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Coping Styles, Mental Health, and the COVID-19 Quarantine: A Nationwide Survey in Poland
Background: The outbreak of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 that began from March 2020 is yet to be contained. Consequences of the ongoing pandemic may have a negative impact on the mental health of affected individuals. This particularly refers to those quarantined. Since the COVID-19 pandemic is cu...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7991383/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33776817 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.625355 |
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author | Kołodziejczyk, Agata Misiak, Błazej Szcześniak, Dorota Maciaszek, Julian Ciułkowicz, Marta Łuc, Dorota Wieczorek, Tomasz Fila-Witecka, Karolina Chladzinska-Kiejna, Sylwia Rymaszewska, Joanna |
author_facet | Kołodziejczyk, Agata Misiak, Błazej Szcześniak, Dorota Maciaszek, Julian Ciułkowicz, Marta Łuc, Dorota Wieczorek, Tomasz Fila-Witecka, Karolina Chladzinska-Kiejna, Sylwia Rymaszewska, Joanna |
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description | Background: The outbreak of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 that began from March 2020 is yet to be contained. Consequences of the ongoing pandemic may have a negative impact on the mental health of affected individuals. This particularly refers to those quarantined. Since the COVID-19 pandemic is currently one of the biggest health issues worldwide, a higher demand emerges for research concentrating on the worsening of psychological well-being among the general and the quarantined population, as well as on individual coping strategies that may moderate the occurrence of psychopathologies. Method: Data were collected within the first weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland. Participants represented quarantine (+) and quarantine (–) groups. Quarantine (+) group, different from quarantine (–), consisted of people who experienced it themselves or someone close to them did after contacting an infected individual. To measure psychopathological symptoms a General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28) was used. For measuring PTSD symptoms, the Impact of Event Scale-Revised (IES-R) was used. This study followed the coping strategies manifested among the participants using the MiniCope questionnaire. Results: A total of 2,036 individuals participated in this study. Quarantine (+) individuals had significantly higher total and subscales GHQ-28 scores (anxiety, insomnia, and somatic symptoms) as well as a higher IES-R arousal score. The quarantine (+) individuals were more likely to use self-distraction as a coping strategy. This research identified positive and negative correlations between presented coping styles and manifested psychopathology. Conclusion: This nationwide study suggests occurrence of negative effects on mental health due to the COVID-19 pandemic and quarantine. It is observed on most of the measured psychopathological symptoms. The present research provides a line of action that should be followed in the future in case of another epidemic and in the event restrictions like quarantine have to be introduced again. |
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spelling | pubmed-79913832021-03-26 Coping Styles, Mental Health, and the COVID-19 Quarantine: A Nationwide Survey in Poland Kołodziejczyk, Agata Misiak, Błazej Szcześniak, Dorota Maciaszek, Julian Ciułkowicz, Marta Łuc, Dorota Wieczorek, Tomasz Fila-Witecka, Karolina Chladzinska-Kiejna, Sylwia Rymaszewska, Joanna Front Psychiatry Psychiatry Background: The outbreak of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 that began from March 2020 is yet to be contained. Consequences of the ongoing pandemic may have a negative impact on the mental health of affected individuals. This particularly refers to those quarantined. Since the COVID-19 pandemic is currently one of the biggest health issues worldwide, a higher demand emerges for research concentrating on the worsening of psychological well-being among the general and the quarantined population, as well as on individual coping strategies that may moderate the occurrence of psychopathologies. Method: Data were collected within the first weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland. Participants represented quarantine (+) and quarantine (–) groups. Quarantine (+) group, different from quarantine (–), consisted of people who experienced it themselves or someone close to them did after contacting an infected individual. To measure psychopathological symptoms a General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28) was used. For measuring PTSD symptoms, the Impact of Event Scale-Revised (IES-R) was used. This study followed the coping strategies manifested among the participants using the MiniCope questionnaire. Results: A total of 2,036 individuals participated in this study. Quarantine (+) individuals had significantly higher total and subscales GHQ-28 scores (anxiety, insomnia, and somatic symptoms) as well as a higher IES-R arousal score. The quarantine (+) individuals were more likely to use self-distraction as a coping strategy. This research identified positive and negative correlations between presented coping styles and manifested psychopathology. Conclusion: This nationwide study suggests occurrence of negative effects on mental health due to the COVID-19 pandemic and quarantine. It is observed on most of the measured psychopathological symptoms. The present research provides a line of action that should be followed in the future in case of another epidemic and in the event restrictions like quarantine have to be introduced again. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-03-11 /pmc/articles/PMC7991383/ /pubmed/33776817 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.625355 Text en Copyright © 2021 Kołodziejczyk, Misiak, Szcześniak, Maciaszek, Ciułkowicz, Łuc, Wieczorek, Fila-Witecka, Chladzinska-Kiejna and Rymaszewska. 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 | Psychiatry Kołodziejczyk, Agata Misiak, Błazej Szcześniak, Dorota Maciaszek, Julian Ciułkowicz, Marta Łuc, Dorota Wieczorek, Tomasz Fila-Witecka, Karolina Chladzinska-Kiejna, Sylwia Rymaszewska, Joanna Coping Styles, Mental Health, and the COVID-19 Quarantine: A Nationwide Survey in Poland |
title | Coping Styles, Mental Health, and the COVID-19 Quarantine: A Nationwide Survey in Poland |
title_full | Coping Styles, Mental Health, and the COVID-19 Quarantine: A Nationwide Survey in Poland |
title_fullStr | Coping Styles, Mental Health, and the COVID-19 Quarantine: A Nationwide Survey in Poland |
title_full_unstemmed | Coping Styles, Mental Health, and the COVID-19 Quarantine: A Nationwide Survey in Poland |
title_short | Coping Styles, Mental Health, and the COVID-19 Quarantine: A Nationwide Survey in Poland |
title_sort | coping styles, mental health, and the covid-19 quarantine: a nationwide survey in poland |
topic | Psychiatry |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7991383/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33776817 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.625355 |
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