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COVID-19 infodemic and depressive symptoms: The impact of the exposure to news about COVID-19 on the general Paraguayan population
INTRODUCTION: : The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an increase of social stressors and mental health issues in the general population as well as among mentally ill patients. A COVID-19- related “infodemic”, including too much information in digital and physical environments, has been recognized global...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8592854/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34798149 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2021.11.036 |
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author | Torales, Julio Barrios, Iván O'Higgins, Marcelo Almirón-Santacruz, José Gonzalez-Urbieta, Israel García, Oscar Rios-González, Carlos Castaldelli-Maia, João Mauricio Ventriglio, Antonio |
author_facet | Torales, Julio Barrios, Iván O'Higgins, Marcelo Almirón-Santacruz, José Gonzalez-Urbieta, Israel García, Oscar Rios-González, Carlos Castaldelli-Maia, João Mauricio Ventriglio, Antonio |
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description | INTRODUCTION: : The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an increase of social stressors and mental health issues in the general population as well as among mentally ill patients. A COVID-19- related “infodemic”, including too much information in digital and physical environments, has been recognized globally. AIM: : This study aimed to describe the impact of COVID-19 infodemic (exposure to news related to COVID-19) in terms of depressive symptoms in the Paraguayan general population. METHODS: : This was a descriptive and cross-sectional study. An online survey, designed in Google Forms, has been launched nationwide through the most popular social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram) and messaging applications (WhatsApp, Telegram) in April (1st-30th) 2021. The Mental Health Inventory-5 (MHI-5) was employed for detecting depressive symptoms. RESULTS: : The survey included 1102 responders aged 35.4 ± 12.9 years old, 74.9% were women. MHI-5 mean score was 44.07 ± 14.16 in the general population with 34.4% (n = 379) of responders suffering from severe symptoms of depression (>52, as cut-off point). 53.5% of sample reported to have been exposed between 1 and 3 h to COVID-19 news, daily. An OR 1.933 (95% CI 1.48 - 2.52) was found between the exposure to news and depressive symptoms. CONCLUSIONS: : This study suggests that people exposed to a higher number of hours of COVID-19 news were 93.3% more likely to develop depressive symptoms. |
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spelling | pubmed-85928542021-11-16 COVID-19 infodemic and depressive symptoms: The impact of the exposure to news about COVID-19 on the general Paraguayan population Torales, Julio Barrios, Iván O'Higgins, Marcelo Almirón-Santacruz, José Gonzalez-Urbieta, Israel García, Oscar Rios-González, Carlos Castaldelli-Maia, João Mauricio Ventriglio, Antonio J Affect Disord Article INTRODUCTION: : The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an increase of social stressors and mental health issues in the general population as well as among mentally ill patients. A COVID-19- related “infodemic”, including too much information in digital and physical environments, has been recognized globally. AIM: : This study aimed to describe the impact of COVID-19 infodemic (exposure to news related to COVID-19) in terms of depressive symptoms in the Paraguayan general population. METHODS: : This was a descriptive and cross-sectional study. An online survey, designed in Google Forms, has been launched nationwide through the most popular social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram) and messaging applications (WhatsApp, Telegram) in April (1st-30th) 2021. The Mental Health Inventory-5 (MHI-5) was employed for detecting depressive symptoms. RESULTS: : The survey included 1102 responders aged 35.4 ± 12.9 years old, 74.9% were women. MHI-5 mean score was 44.07 ± 14.16 in the general population with 34.4% (n = 379) of responders suffering from severe symptoms of depression (>52, as cut-off point). 53.5% of sample reported to have been exposed between 1 and 3 h to COVID-19 news, daily. An OR 1.933 (95% CI 1.48 - 2.52) was found between the exposure to news and depressive symptoms. CONCLUSIONS: : This study suggests that people exposed to a higher number of hours of COVID-19 news were 93.3% more likely to develop depressive symptoms. Elsevier B.V. 2022-02-01 2021-11-16 /pmc/articles/PMC8592854/ /pubmed/34798149 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2021.11.036 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. |
spellingShingle | Article Torales, Julio Barrios, Iván O'Higgins, Marcelo Almirón-Santacruz, José Gonzalez-Urbieta, Israel García, Oscar Rios-González, Carlos Castaldelli-Maia, João Mauricio Ventriglio, Antonio COVID-19 infodemic and depressive symptoms: The impact of the exposure to news about COVID-19 on the general Paraguayan population |
title | COVID-19 infodemic and depressive symptoms: The impact of the exposure to news about COVID-19 on the general Paraguayan population |
title_full | COVID-19 infodemic and depressive symptoms: The impact of the exposure to news about COVID-19 on the general Paraguayan population |
title_fullStr | COVID-19 infodemic and depressive symptoms: The impact of the exposure to news about COVID-19 on the general Paraguayan population |
title_full_unstemmed | COVID-19 infodemic and depressive symptoms: The impact of the exposure to news about COVID-19 on the general Paraguayan population |
title_short | COVID-19 infodemic and depressive symptoms: The impact of the exposure to news about COVID-19 on the general Paraguayan population |
title_sort | covid-19 infodemic and depressive symptoms: the impact of the exposure to news about covid-19 on the general paraguayan population |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8592854/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34798149 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2021.11.036 |
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