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Distress, anxiety, and its correlates among caregivers of children with kidney diseases during COVID-19 pandemic lockdown
BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has generated a significant amount of psychological burden in the form of stress, anxiety, uncertainty, depression, anger, and helplessness. The caregivers of children with chronic diseases in particular are at a higher risk of mental stress and burden. MATERIAL AND...
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French Society of Pediatrics. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS.
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8768425/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35115218 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.arcped.2022.01.003 |
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author | Sharma, Rajni Jafra, Bikramjit Singh Tiewsoh, Karalanglin Kumar, Krishan Kaur, Navpreet Sharawat, Indar Kumar Dawman, Lesa |
author_facet | Sharma, Rajni Jafra, Bikramjit Singh Tiewsoh, Karalanglin Kumar, Krishan Kaur, Navpreet Sharawat, Indar Kumar Dawman, Lesa |
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description | BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has generated a significant amount of psychological burden in the form of stress, anxiety, uncertainty, depression, anger, and helplessness. The caregivers of children with chronic diseases in particular are at a higher risk of mental stress and burden. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We conducted an online survey among caregivers of children with kidney diseases to assess the psychosocial impact of COVID-19. The psychosocial impact of COVID-19 pandemic on their mental health was assessed through standardized psychological scales (Peritraumatic Distress Inventory, Insomnia Severity Scale [ISI], Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale [DASS], and Positive and Negative Aspect Scale) and a semi-structured interview was conducted telephonically. RESULTS: A total of 200 caregivers participated in the study. The mean age of the participants was 36±5.56 years, and 76% were males. Participants experienced maximum distress in terms of life threat (6.27±4.64), followed by helplessness and anger (2.66 ± 1.65). Among participants, 38% of them exhibited significant distress. The majority scored below the cut-off on positive affect (98%), and thus could not experience positive emotions and interaction, and 37.5% of participants were feeling significant negative affect. On the ISI, 38.5% of participants experienced significant sleep problems. On the DASS, 65% of participants exhibited significant stress, 76% anxiety, and 78.5% depression. CONCLUSION: A high prevalence of stress, anxiety, and depression along with insomnia was detected among the caregivers of children with kidney diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic. |
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spelling | pubmed-87684252022-01-20 Distress, anxiety, and its correlates among caregivers of children with kidney diseases during COVID-19 pandemic lockdown Sharma, Rajni Jafra, Bikramjit Singh Tiewsoh, Karalanglin Kumar, Krishan Kaur, Navpreet Sharawat, Indar Kumar Dawman, Lesa Arch Pediatr Research Paper BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has generated a significant amount of psychological burden in the form of stress, anxiety, uncertainty, depression, anger, and helplessness. The caregivers of children with chronic diseases in particular are at a higher risk of mental stress and burden. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We conducted an online survey among caregivers of children with kidney diseases to assess the psychosocial impact of COVID-19. The psychosocial impact of COVID-19 pandemic on their mental health was assessed through standardized psychological scales (Peritraumatic Distress Inventory, Insomnia Severity Scale [ISI], Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale [DASS], and Positive and Negative Aspect Scale) and a semi-structured interview was conducted telephonically. RESULTS: A total of 200 caregivers participated in the study. The mean age of the participants was 36±5.56 years, and 76% were males. Participants experienced maximum distress in terms of life threat (6.27±4.64), followed by helplessness and anger (2.66 ± 1.65). Among participants, 38% of them exhibited significant distress. The majority scored below the cut-off on positive affect (98%), and thus could not experience positive emotions and interaction, and 37.5% of participants were feeling significant negative affect. On the ISI, 38.5% of participants experienced significant sleep problems. On the DASS, 65% of participants exhibited significant stress, 76% anxiety, and 78.5% depression. CONCLUSION: A high prevalence of stress, anxiety, and depression along with insomnia was detected among the caregivers of children with kidney diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic. French Society of Pediatrics. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. 2022-04 2022-01-19 /pmc/articles/PMC8768425/ /pubmed/35115218 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.arcped.2022.01.003 Text en © 2022 French Society of Pediatrics. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. 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 | Research Paper Sharma, Rajni Jafra, Bikramjit Singh Tiewsoh, Karalanglin Kumar, Krishan Kaur, Navpreet Sharawat, Indar Kumar Dawman, Lesa Distress, anxiety, and its correlates among caregivers of children with kidney diseases during COVID-19 pandemic lockdown |
title | Distress, anxiety, and its correlates among caregivers of children with kidney diseases during COVID-19 pandemic lockdown |
title_full | Distress, anxiety, and its correlates among caregivers of children with kidney diseases during COVID-19 pandemic lockdown |
title_fullStr | Distress, anxiety, and its correlates among caregivers of children with kidney diseases during COVID-19 pandemic lockdown |
title_full_unstemmed | Distress, anxiety, and its correlates among caregivers of children with kidney diseases during COVID-19 pandemic lockdown |
title_short | Distress, anxiety, and its correlates among caregivers of children with kidney diseases during COVID-19 pandemic lockdown |
title_sort | distress, anxiety, and its correlates among caregivers of children with kidney diseases during covid-19 pandemic lockdown |
topic | Research Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8768425/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35115218 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.arcped.2022.01.003 |
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