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Sociodemographic and lifestyle predictors of mental health adaptability during COVID-19 compulsory confinement: A longitudinal study in the Portuguese population

BACKGROUND: The outbreak of COVID-19 and the physical isolation measures taken by the governments to reduce its propagation might have negative psychological consequences on the population. In this study, we aimed to explore, for the first time, how mental health status fluctuated along the weeks of...

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Autores principales: Picó-Pérez, Maria, Ferreira, Sónia, Couto, Beatriz, Raposo-Lima, Catarina, Machado-Sousa, Mafalda, Morgado, Pedro
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Publicado: Elsevier B.V. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8413096/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34517254
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2021.08.150
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author Picó-Pérez, Maria
Ferreira, Sónia
Couto, Beatriz
Raposo-Lima, Catarina
Machado-Sousa, Mafalda
Morgado, Pedro
author_facet Picó-Pérez, Maria
Ferreira, Sónia
Couto, Beatriz
Raposo-Lima, Catarina
Machado-Sousa, Mafalda
Morgado, Pedro
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description BACKGROUND: The outbreak of COVID-19 and the physical isolation measures taken by the governments to reduce its propagation might have negative psychological consequences on the population. In this study, we aimed to explore, for the first time, how mental health status fluctuated along the weeks of the emergency state in Portugal, and to identify which factors may shape these changes in mental health outcomes. METHODS: To this end, we conducted an online survey to evaluate demographic, lifestyle and mental health variables (DASS-21 and quality of life) in the Portuguese population at three different time-points. 748 participants (mean age = 39.52, % females = 79.95) provided data at all time-points. RESULTS: We observed that depression, anxiety and stress symptoms seemed to improve as the weeks passed during the state of emergency, while the perception of quality of life and sleep got worse. In particular, being female, younger, actively working, and extroverted appear to be protective factors of mental health adaptability during this particular period. On the contrary, having a psychiatric diagnosis or physical illness, and higher neuroticism seem to be risk factors for mental health worsening. LIMITATIONS: The lack of a more diverse sample could limit the generalizability of our results, and other factors that were not considered in our analysis might also have a significant impact on mental health. CONCLUSIONS: Our results provide relevant and novel insights about the course of mental health changes and its predictors during the outbreak of COVID-19, which may help identify potential vulnerability groups.
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spelling pubmed-84130962021-09-03 Sociodemographic and lifestyle predictors of mental health adaptability during COVID-19 compulsory confinement: A longitudinal study in the Portuguese population Picó-Pérez, Maria Ferreira, Sónia Couto, Beatriz Raposo-Lima, Catarina Machado-Sousa, Mafalda Morgado, Pedro J Affect Disord Research Paper BACKGROUND: The outbreak of COVID-19 and the physical isolation measures taken by the governments to reduce its propagation might have negative psychological consequences on the population. In this study, we aimed to explore, for the first time, how mental health status fluctuated along the weeks of the emergency state in Portugal, and to identify which factors may shape these changes in mental health outcomes. METHODS: To this end, we conducted an online survey to evaluate demographic, lifestyle and mental health variables (DASS-21 and quality of life) in the Portuguese population at three different time-points. 748 participants (mean age = 39.52, % females = 79.95) provided data at all time-points. RESULTS: We observed that depression, anxiety and stress symptoms seemed to improve as the weeks passed during the state of emergency, while the perception of quality of life and sleep got worse. In particular, being female, younger, actively working, and extroverted appear to be protective factors of mental health adaptability during this particular period. On the contrary, having a psychiatric diagnosis or physical illness, and higher neuroticism seem to be risk factors for mental health worsening. LIMITATIONS: The lack of a more diverse sample could limit the generalizability of our results, and other factors that were not considered in our analysis might also have a significant impact on mental health. CONCLUSIONS: Our results provide relevant and novel insights about the course of mental health changes and its predictors during the outbreak of COVID-19, which may help identify potential vulnerability groups. Elsevier B.V. 2021-12-01 2021-09-03 /pmc/articles/PMC8413096/ /pubmed/34517254 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2021.08.150 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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Picó-Pérez, Maria
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Couto, Beatriz
Raposo-Lima, Catarina
Machado-Sousa, Mafalda
Morgado, Pedro
Sociodemographic and lifestyle predictors of mental health adaptability during COVID-19 compulsory confinement: A longitudinal study in the Portuguese population
title Sociodemographic and lifestyle predictors of mental health adaptability during COVID-19 compulsory confinement: A longitudinal study in the Portuguese population
title_full Sociodemographic and lifestyle predictors of mental health adaptability during COVID-19 compulsory confinement: A longitudinal study in the Portuguese population
title_fullStr Sociodemographic and lifestyle predictors of mental health adaptability during COVID-19 compulsory confinement: A longitudinal study in the Portuguese population
title_full_unstemmed Sociodemographic and lifestyle predictors of mental health adaptability during COVID-19 compulsory confinement: A longitudinal study in the Portuguese population
title_short Sociodemographic and lifestyle predictors of mental health adaptability during COVID-19 compulsory confinement: A longitudinal study in the Portuguese population
title_sort sociodemographic and lifestyle predictors of mental health adaptability during covid-19 compulsory confinement: a longitudinal study in the portuguese population
topic Research Paper
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8413096/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34517254
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2021.08.150
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