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Anxiety Linked to COVID-19: A Systematic Review Comparing Anxiety Rates in Different Populations

The COVID-19 pandemic has incited a rise in anxiety, with uncertainty regarding the specific impacts and risk factors across multiple populations. A qualitative systematic review was conducted to investigate the prevalence and associations of anxiety in different sample populations in relation to th...

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Autores principales: Saeed, Hafsah, Eslami, Ardalan, Nassif, Najah T., Simpson, Ann M., Lal, Sara
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8871867/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35206374
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19042189
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author Saeed, Hafsah
Eslami, Ardalan
Nassif, Najah T.
Simpson, Ann M.
Lal, Sara
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description The COVID-19 pandemic has incited a rise in anxiety, with uncertainty regarding the specific impacts and risk factors across multiple populations. A qualitative systematic review was conducted to investigate the prevalence and associations of anxiety in different sample populations in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. Four databases were utilised in the search (Medline, EMBASE, CINAHL, and PsycINFO). The review period commenced in April 2021 and was finalised on 5 July 2021. A total of 3537 studies were identified of which 87 were included in the review (sample size: 755,180). Healthcare workers had the highest prevalence of anxiety (36%), followed by university students (34.7%), the general population (34%), teachers (27.2%), parents (23.3%), pregnant women (19.5%), and police (8.79%). Risk factors such as being female, having pre-existing mental conditions, lower socioeconomic status, increased exposure to infection, and being younger all contributed to worsened anxiety. The review included studies published before July 2021; due to the ongoing nature of the COVID-19 pandemic, this may have excluded relevant papers. Restriction to only English papers and a sample size > 1000 may have also limited the range of papers included. These findings identify groups who are most vulnerable to developing anxiety in a pandemic and what specific risk factors are most common across multiple populations.
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spelling pubmed-88718672022-02-25 Anxiety Linked to COVID-19: A Systematic Review Comparing Anxiety Rates in Different Populations Saeed, Hafsah Eslami, Ardalan Nassif, Najah T. Simpson, Ann M. Lal, Sara Int J Environ Res Public Health Review The COVID-19 pandemic has incited a rise in anxiety, with uncertainty regarding the specific impacts and risk factors across multiple populations. A qualitative systematic review was conducted to investigate the prevalence and associations of anxiety in different sample populations in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. Four databases were utilised in the search (Medline, EMBASE, CINAHL, and PsycINFO). The review period commenced in April 2021 and was finalised on 5 July 2021. A total of 3537 studies were identified of which 87 were included in the review (sample size: 755,180). Healthcare workers had the highest prevalence of anxiety (36%), followed by university students (34.7%), the general population (34%), teachers (27.2%), parents (23.3%), pregnant women (19.5%), and police (8.79%). Risk factors such as being female, having pre-existing mental conditions, lower socioeconomic status, increased exposure to infection, and being younger all contributed to worsened anxiety. The review included studies published before July 2021; due to the ongoing nature of the COVID-19 pandemic, this may have excluded relevant papers. Restriction to only English papers and a sample size > 1000 may have also limited the range of papers included. These findings identify groups who are most vulnerable to developing anxiety in a pandemic and what specific risk factors are most common across multiple populations. MDPI 2022-02-15 /pmc/articles/PMC8871867/ /pubmed/35206374 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19042189 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Anxiety Linked to COVID-19: A Systematic Review Comparing Anxiety Rates in Different Populations
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8871867/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35206374
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19042189
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