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The Emotional and Personal Experiences of the COVID-19 Illness During the Early Pandemic: A Qualitative Study

BACKGROUND: Several studies report the incidence of psychiatric symptoms and disorders among patients who recovered from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19); however, little is known about the emotional impact of acute COVID-19 illness and recovery on these survivors. Qualitative methods are ideal f...

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Autores principales: Raza, Haniya, Guinee, Emily P., Okeke, Onyi, Shaw, Jacob S., Gibbons, Alison, Mooneyham, GenaLynne C., Sneller, Michael, Chung, Joyce Y.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier B.V 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9700391/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36574583
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaclp.2022.11.003
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author Raza, Haniya
Guinee, Emily P.
Okeke, Onyi
Shaw, Jacob S.
Gibbons, Alison
Mooneyham, GenaLynne C.
Sneller, Michael
Chung, Joyce Y.
author_facet Raza, Haniya
Guinee, Emily P.
Okeke, Onyi
Shaw, Jacob S.
Gibbons, Alison
Mooneyham, GenaLynne C.
Sneller, Michael
Chung, Joyce Y.
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description BACKGROUND: Several studies report the incidence of psychiatric symptoms and disorders among patients who recovered from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19); however, little is known about the emotional impact of acute COVID-19 illness and recovery on these survivors. Qualitative methods are ideal for understanding the psychological impact of a novel illness. OBJECTIVE: To describe the emotional experience of the acute COVID-19 illness and recovery in patients who contracted the virus during the early months of the pandemic. METHODS: Semi-structured interviews conducted by consultation-liaison (C-L) psychiatrists were used to elicit participant responses about the emotional impact of the acute and recovery phases of the COVID-19 illness. Participants recruited from the Maryland, District of Columbia, and Virginia area were interviewed which was audio recorded between June 2020 and December 2020. The research team extracted qualitative themes from the recordings using the principles of thematic analysis. RESULTS: One hundred and one COVID-19 survivors (54 women; mean [SD] age, 50 [14.7] years) were interviewed at a mean of 5.16 months after their acute illness, and their responses were audio-recorded. Most participants were White (77%), non-Hispanic/Latino (86.1%), and not hospitalized for COVID-19 (87.1%). Coders identified 26 themes from participant responses. The most frequently coded themes included anxiety/worry (49), uncertainty (37), supportfrom others (35), alone/isolation (32), and positive reframe/positive emotions (32). CONCLUSIONS: Survivors who contracted severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 during the early months of the pandemic described both negative and positive valence emotions. They experienced emotional distress and psychosocial stressors associated with the acute illness and recovery but also drew upon personal resiliency to cope. This report highlights the utility of qualitative research methods in identifying emotional responses to a novel illness that may otherwise go unnoted. Consultation-liaison psychiatrists may be uniquely positioned to work in collaboration with medical colleagues in developing a multidimensional approach to evaluating an emerging illness.
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spelling pubmed-97003912022-11-28 The Emotional and Personal Experiences of the COVID-19 Illness During the Early Pandemic: A Qualitative Study Raza, Haniya Guinee, Emily P. Okeke, Onyi Shaw, Jacob S. Gibbons, Alison Mooneyham, GenaLynne C. Sneller, Michael Chung, Joyce Y. J Acad Consult Liaison Psychiatry Original Research Article BACKGROUND: Several studies report the incidence of psychiatric symptoms and disorders among patients who recovered from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19); however, little is known about the emotional impact of acute COVID-19 illness and recovery on these survivors. Qualitative methods are ideal for understanding the psychological impact of a novel illness. OBJECTIVE: To describe the emotional experience of the acute COVID-19 illness and recovery in patients who contracted the virus during the early months of the pandemic. METHODS: Semi-structured interviews conducted by consultation-liaison (C-L) psychiatrists were used to elicit participant responses about the emotional impact of the acute and recovery phases of the COVID-19 illness. Participants recruited from the Maryland, District of Columbia, and Virginia area were interviewed which was audio recorded between June 2020 and December 2020. The research team extracted qualitative themes from the recordings using the principles of thematic analysis. RESULTS: One hundred and one COVID-19 survivors (54 women; mean [SD] age, 50 [14.7] years) were interviewed at a mean of 5.16 months after their acute illness, and their responses were audio-recorded. Most participants were White (77%), non-Hispanic/Latino (86.1%), and not hospitalized for COVID-19 (87.1%). Coders identified 26 themes from participant responses. The most frequently coded themes included anxiety/worry (49), uncertainty (37), supportfrom others (35), alone/isolation (32), and positive reframe/positive emotions (32). CONCLUSIONS: Survivors who contracted severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 during the early months of the pandemic described both negative and positive valence emotions. They experienced emotional distress and psychosocial stressors associated with the acute illness and recovery but also drew upon personal resiliency to cope. This report highlights the utility of qualitative research methods in identifying emotional responses to a novel illness that may otherwise go unnoted. Consultation-liaison psychiatrists may be uniquely positioned to work in collaboration with medical colleagues in developing a multidimensional approach to evaluating an emerging illness. Elsevier B.V 2023 2022-11-26 /pmc/articles/PMC9700391/ /pubmed/36574583 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaclp.2022.11.003 Text en 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.
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Raza, Haniya
Guinee, Emily P.
Okeke, Onyi
Shaw, Jacob S.
Gibbons, Alison
Mooneyham, GenaLynne C.
Sneller, Michael
Chung, Joyce Y.
The Emotional and Personal Experiences of the COVID-19 Illness During the Early Pandemic: A Qualitative Study
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title_full_unstemmed The Emotional and Personal Experiences of the COVID-19 Illness During the Early Pandemic: A Qualitative Study
title_short The Emotional and Personal Experiences of the COVID-19 Illness During the Early Pandemic: A Qualitative Study
title_sort emotional and personal experiences of the covid-19 illness during the early pandemic: a qualitative study
topic Original Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9700391/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36574583
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaclp.2022.11.003
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