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Psychological functioning in survivors of COVID-19: Evidence from recognition of fearful facial expressions
Evidence about the psychological functioning in individuals who survived the COVID-19 infectious is still rare in the literature. In this paper, we investigated fearful facial expressions recognition, as a behavioural means to assess psychological functioning. From May 15th, 2020 to January 30th, 20...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8297857/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34292994 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0254438 |
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author | Scarpina, Federica Godi, Marco Corna, Stefano Seitanidis, Ionathan Capodaglio, Paolo Mauro, Alessandro |
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description | Evidence about the psychological functioning in individuals who survived the COVID-19 infectious is still rare in the literature. In this paper, we investigated fearful facial expressions recognition, as a behavioural means to assess psychological functioning. From May 15th, 2020 to January 30th, 2021, we enrolled sixty Italian individuals admitted in multiple Italian COVID-19 post-intensive care units. The detection and recognition of fearful facial expressions were assessed through an experimental task grounded on an attentional mechanism (i.e., the redundant target effect). According to the results, our participants showed an altered behaviour in detecting and recognizing fearful expressions. Specifically, their performance was in disagreement with the expected behavioural effect. Our study suggested altered processing of fearful expressions in individuals who survived the COVID-19 infectious. Such a difficulty might represent a crucial sign of psychological distress and it should be addressed in tailored psychological interventions in rehabilitative settings and after discharge. |
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spelling | pubmed-82978572021-07-31 Psychological functioning in survivors of COVID-19: Evidence from recognition of fearful facial expressions Scarpina, Federica Godi, Marco Corna, Stefano Seitanidis, Ionathan Capodaglio, Paolo Mauro, Alessandro PLoS One Research Article Evidence about the psychological functioning in individuals who survived the COVID-19 infectious is still rare in the literature. In this paper, we investigated fearful facial expressions recognition, as a behavioural means to assess psychological functioning. From May 15th, 2020 to January 30th, 2021, we enrolled sixty Italian individuals admitted in multiple Italian COVID-19 post-intensive care units. The detection and recognition of fearful facial expressions were assessed through an experimental task grounded on an attentional mechanism (i.e., the redundant target effect). According to the results, our participants showed an altered behaviour in detecting and recognizing fearful expressions. Specifically, their performance was in disagreement with the expected behavioural effect. Our study suggested altered processing of fearful expressions in individuals who survived the COVID-19 infectious. Such a difficulty might represent a crucial sign of psychological distress and it should be addressed in tailored psychological interventions in rehabilitative settings and after discharge. Public Library of Science 2021-07-22 /pmc/articles/PMC8297857/ /pubmed/34292994 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0254438 Text en © 2021 Scarpina et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://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 Scarpina, Federica Godi, Marco Corna, Stefano Seitanidis, Ionathan Capodaglio, Paolo Mauro, Alessandro Psychological functioning in survivors of COVID-19: Evidence from recognition of fearful facial expressions |
title | Psychological functioning in survivors of COVID-19: Evidence from recognition of fearful facial expressions |
title_full | Psychological functioning in survivors of COVID-19: Evidence from recognition of fearful facial expressions |
title_fullStr | Psychological functioning in survivors of COVID-19: Evidence from recognition of fearful facial expressions |
title_full_unstemmed | Psychological functioning in survivors of COVID-19: Evidence from recognition of fearful facial expressions |
title_short | Psychological functioning in survivors of COVID-19: Evidence from recognition of fearful facial expressions |
title_sort | psychological functioning in survivors of covid-19: evidence from recognition of fearful facial expressions |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8297857/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34292994 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0254438 |
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