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A 6-Month Follow-Up Study on Worry and Its Impact on Well-Being During the First Wave of COVID-19 Pandemic in an Italian Sample

The Italian state adopted serious safety measures to manage the COVID-19 pandemic in the year 2020. The lockdown was associated with negative psychological consequences in healthy populations, mostly in terms of anxiety, distress, depression, and even traumatic symptoms. This longitudinal study aime...

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Autores principales: Ongaro, Giulia, Cincidda, Clizia, Sebri, Valeria, Savioni, Lucrezia, Triberti, Stefano, Ferrucci, Roberta, Poletti, Barbara, Dell’Osso, Bernardo, Pravettoni, Gabriella
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8549434/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34721150
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.703214
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author Ongaro, Giulia
Cincidda, Clizia
Sebri, Valeria
Savioni, Lucrezia
Triberti, Stefano
Ferrucci, Roberta
Poletti, Barbara
Dell’Osso, Bernardo
Pravettoni, Gabriella
author_facet Ongaro, Giulia
Cincidda, Clizia
Sebri, Valeria
Savioni, Lucrezia
Triberti, Stefano
Ferrucci, Roberta
Poletti, Barbara
Dell’Osso, Bernardo
Pravettoni, Gabriella
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description The Italian state adopted serious safety measures to manage the COVID-19 pandemic in the year 2020. The lockdown was associated with negative psychological consequences in healthy populations, mostly in terms of anxiety, distress, depression, and even traumatic symptoms. This longitudinal study aimed at briefly documenting the psychological impact among an Italian sample, in terms of worry and its impact on psychological well-being levels, of the first wave of COVID-19, taking into account the changes in the lockdown scenario. A three-time follow-up survey was administered to 177 subjects (Female: 78%, M(age) = 36.33), during (T0), at the end (T1), and 3 months after the end of the first lockdown (T2). Since the first wave of COVID-19, results showed a decrease in worry and the perception of virus diffusion’s controllability over time while psychological well-being increased. Furthermore, factors such as personality traits (neuroticism and agreeableness) and dysfunctional coping strategies predicted increases in worry levels at the end of the lockdown and 3 months after in the Italian context. However, worry levels during and at the end of the lockdown did not predict well-being levels 3 months after the end of the lockdown. Based on these findings, mental health policymakers should design tailored interventions able to improve the perception of virus diffusion management, as well as address the psychological needs of Italian citizens and support it, including a plan for the follow-up evaluation.
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spelling pubmed-85494342021-10-28 A 6-Month Follow-Up Study on Worry and Its Impact on Well-Being During the First Wave of COVID-19 Pandemic in an Italian Sample Ongaro, Giulia Cincidda, Clizia Sebri, Valeria Savioni, Lucrezia Triberti, Stefano Ferrucci, Roberta Poletti, Barbara Dell’Osso, Bernardo Pravettoni, Gabriella Front Psychol Psychology The Italian state adopted serious safety measures to manage the COVID-19 pandemic in the year 2020. The lockdown was associated with negative psychological consequences in healthy populations, mostly in terms of anxiety, distress, depression, and even traumatic symptoms. This longitudinal study aimed at briefly documenting the psychological impact among an Italian sample, in terms of worry and its impact on psychological well-being levels, of the first wave of COVID-19, taking into account the changes in the lockdown scenario. A three-time follow-up survey was administered to 177 subjects (Female: 78%, M(age) = 36.33), during (T0), at the end (T1), and 3 months after the end of the first lockdown (T2). Since the first wave of COVID-19, results showed a decrease in worry and the perception of virus diffusion’s controllability over time while psychological well-being increased. Furthermore, factors such as personality traits (neuroticism and agreeableness) and dysfunctional coping strategies predicted increases in worry levels at the end of the lockdown and 3 months after in the Italian context. However, worry levels during and at the end of the lockdown did not predict well-being levels 3 months after the end of the lockdown. Based on these findings, mental health policymakers should design tailored interventions able to improve the perception of virus diffusion management, as well as address the psychological needs of Italian citizens and support it, including a plan for the follow-up evaluation. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-10-13 /pmc/articles/PMC8549434/ /pubmed/34721150 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.703214 Text en Copyright © 2021 Ongaro, Cincidda, Sebri, Savioni, Triberti, Ferrucci, Poletti, Dell’Osso and Pravettoni. https://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 Psychology
Ongaro, Giulia
Cincidda, Clizia
Sebri, Valeria
Savioni, Lucrezia
Triberti, Stefano
Ferrucci, Roberta
Poletti, Barbara
Dell’Osso, Bernardo
Pravettoni, Gabriella
A 6-Month Follow-Up Study on Worry and Its Impact on Well-Being During the First Wave of COVID-19 Pandemic in an Italian Sample
title A 6-Month Follow-Up Study on Worry and Its Impact on Well-Being During the First Wave of COVID-19 Pandemic in an Italian Sample
title_full A 6-Month Follow-Up Study on Worry and Its Impact on Well-Being During the First Wave of COVID-19 Pandemic in an Italian Sample
title_fullStr A 6-Month Follow-Up Study on Worry and Its Impact on Well-Being During the First Wave of COVID-19 Pandemic in an Italian Sample
title_full_unstemmed A 6-Month Follow-Up Study on Worry and Its Impact on Well-Being During the First Wave of COVID-19 Pandemic in an Italian Sample
title_short A 6-Month Follow-Up Study on Worry and Its Impact on Well-Being During the First Wave of COVID-19 Pandemic in an Italian Sample
title_sort 6-month follow-up study on worry and its impact on well-being during the first wave of covid-19 pandemic in an italian sample
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8549434/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34721150
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.703214
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