COVID-19 as a traumatic stressor is an indicator of mental health symptomatology

The mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic are gaining attention. While many are experiencing increased stress due to COVID-19, some perceive the pandemic as traumatic. This preliminary study identified respondents who endorsed a COVID-19-related trauma as their most stressful traumatic expe...

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Autores principales: Sommer, Jordana L., Mota, Natalie, Reynolds, Kristin, El-Gabalawy, Renée
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier B.V. 2021
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8056974/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33901973
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2021.113936
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description The mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic are gaining attention. While many are experiencing increased stress due to COVID-19, some perceive the pandemic as traumatic. This preliminary study identified respondents who endorsed a COVID-19-related trauma as their most stressful traumatic experience (i.e., index trauma). We analyzed data from an online Canadian survey (May-July 2020; N =1,018). Nearly 3% of participants endorsed a COVID-19-related index trauma. These individuals had increased posttraumatic stress, anxiety, and depressive symptoms compared to the remaining sample. Results may inform targeted screening to identify those who may be at greater risk for COVID-19-related mental health sequelae.
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spelling pubmed-80569742021-04-21 COVID-19 as a traumatic stressor is an indicator of mental health symptomatology Sommer, Jordana L. Mota, Natalie Reynolds, Kristin El-Gabalawy, Renée Psychiatry Res Short Communication The mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic are gaining attention. While many are experiencing increased stress due to COVID-19, some perceive the pandemic as traumatic. This preliminary study identified respondents who endorsed a COVID-19-related trauma as their most stressful traumatic experience (i.e., index trauma). We analyzed data from an online Canadian survey (May-July 2020; N =1,018). Nearly 3% of participants endorsed a COVID-19-related index trauma. These individuals had increased posttraumatic stress, anxiety, and depressive symptoms compared to the remaining sample. Results may inform targeted screening to identify those who may be at greater risk for COVID-19-related mental health sequelae. Elsevier B.V. 2021-06 2021-04-20 /pmc/articles/PMC8056974/ /pubmed/33901973 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2021.113936 Text en © 2021 Elsevier B.V. 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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