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The changes in psychological symptoms of COVID-19 patients after “re-positive”

BACKGROUND: Previous studies have showed that individuals infected with COVID-19 were more likely to report psychological symptoms. However, little is known about the changes from testing positive to negative to positive again. METHODS: This survey was conducted through the questionnaires including...

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Autores principales: Wang, Xing, Fan, Qinyi, Li, Yunyue, Xiao, Junjian, Huang, Yanyan, Guo, Tiantian, Chen, Hongguang, Li, Mengqian
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9589489/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36299548
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.1010004
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author Wang, Xing
Fan, Qinyi
Li, Yunyue
Xiao, Junjian
Huang, Yanyan
Guo, Tiantian
Chen, Hongguang
Li, Mengqian
author_facet Wang, Xing
Fan, Qinyi
Li, Yunyue
Xiao, Junjian
Huang, Yanyan
Guo, Tiantian
Chen, Hongguang
Li, Mengqian
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description BACKGROUND: Previous studies have showed that individuals infected with COVID-19 were more likely to report psychological symptoms. However, little is known about the changes from testing positive to negative to positive again. METHODS: This survey was conducted through the questionnaires including the 7-item Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD-7), the 9-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9), as well as the Self-Rating Scale of Sleep (SRSS) to explore the psychological status of COVID-19 and re-positive cases. ″re-positive″ is defined as a positive RT-PCR test at any time during the recovery period after testing negative. RESULTS: A total of 94 COVID-19 patients presented the prevalence rates of anxiety, depression, insomnia, and any of the three psychological symptoms being 26.6, 8.6, 12.8, and 31.9%, respectively. Among these, 32 cases were re-tested positive during the recovery period, with the prevalence rates of anxiety, depression, insomnia, and any of the three psychological symptoms being 21.9, 18.7, 31.2, and 37.5%, respectively. The psychological status after re-positive showed a significant decrease in anxiety (P = 0.023), an increase in depression, and a significant rise in insomnia (P = 0.035). For those with no psychological symptoms during initial-positive, after re-positive, 5.88% reported anxiety, 5.88% reported depression, and 11.76% reported insomnia. For those who experienced only anxiety symptoms during initial-positive, after re-positive, 33.3% reported depression, and 33.3% reported insomnia. CONCLUSIONS: Our findings encompassed the urgent concern for anxiety in initial-positive COVID-19 patients, depression in re-positive COVID-19 patients, and insomnia in both initial and re-positive patients, hence enabling targeted interventions for appeasing the psychological burden of COVID-19 patients.
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spelling pubmed-95894892022-10-25 The changes in psychological symptoms of COVID-19 patients after “re-positive” Wang, Xing Fan, Qinyi Li, Yunyue Xiao, Junjian Huang, Yanyan Guo, Tiantian Chen, Hongguang Li, Mengqian Front Psychiatry Psychiatry BACKGROUND: Previous studies have showed that individuals infected with COVID-19 were more likely to report psychological symptoms. However, little is known about the changes from testing positive to negative to positive again. METHODS: This survey was conducted through the questionnaires including the 7-item Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD-7), the 9-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9), as well as the Self-Rating Scale of Sleep (SRSS) to explore the psychological status of COVID-19 and re-positive cases. ″re-positive″ is defined as a positive RT-PCR test at any time during the recovery period after testing negative. RESULTS: A total of 94 COVID-19 patients presented the prevalence rates of anxiety, depression, insomnia, and any of the three psychological symptoms being 26.6, 8.6, 12.8, and 31.9%, respectively. Among these, 32 cases were re-tested positive during the recovery period, with the prevalence rates of anxiety, depression, insomnia, and any of the three psychological symptoms being 21.9, 18.7, 31.2, and 37.5%, respectively. The psychological status after re-positive showed a significant decrease in anxiety (P = 0.023), an increase in depression, and a significant rise in insomnia (P = 0.035). For those with no psychological symptoms during initial-positive, after re-positive, 5.88% reported anxiety, 5.88% reported depression, and 11.76% reported insomnia. For those who experienced only anxiety symptoms during initial-positive, after re-positive, 33.3% reported depression, and 33.3% reported insomnia. CONCLUSIONS: Our findings encompassed the urgent concern for anxiety in initial-positive COVID-19 patients, depression in re-positive COVID-19 patients, and insomnia in both initial and re-positive patients, hence enabling targeted interventions for appeasing the psychological burden of COVID-19 patients. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-10-10 /pmc/articles/PMC9589489/ /pubmed/36299548 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.1010004 Text en Copyright © 2022 Wang, Fan, Li, Xiao, Huang, Guo, Chen and Li. 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 Psychiatry
Wang, Xing
Fan, Qinyi
Li, Yunyue
Xiao, Junjian
Huang, Yanyan
Guo, Tiantian
Chen, Hongguang
Li, Mengqian
The changes in psychological symptoms of COVID-19 patients after “re-positive”
title The changes in psychological symptoms of COVID-19 patients after “re-positive”
title_full The changes in psychological symptoms of COVID-19 patients after “re-positive”
title_fullStr The changes in psychological symptoms of COVID-19 patients after “re-positive”
title_full_unstemmed The changes in psychological symptoms of COVID-19 patients after “re-positive”
title_short The changes in psychological symptoms of COVID-19 patients after “re-positive”
title_sort changes in psychological symptoms of covid-19 patients after “re-positive”
topic Psychiatry
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9589489/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36299548
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.1010004
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