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Do coping responses predict better/poorer mental health in Portuguese adults during Portugal's national lockdown associated with the COVID-19?

BACKGROUND: This study aimed at assessing the mental health status of adults living in Portugal during the national lockdown of March 2020 to May 2020, how study participants coped with stress during the national lockdown, as well as the association between coping responses and mental health status....

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Autores principales: Jarego, Margarida, Pimenta, Filipa, Pais-Ribeiro, José, Costa, Rui M., Patrão, Ivone, Coelho, Lina, Ferreira-Valente, Alexandra
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Ltd. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9755831/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36540054
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.110698
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author Jarego, Margarida
Pimenta, Filipa
Pais-Ribeiro, José
Costa, Rui M.
Patrão, Ivone
Coelho, Lina
Ferreira-Valente, Alexandra
author_facet Jarego, Margarida
Pimenta, Filipa
Pais-Ribeiro, José
Costa, Rui M.
Patrão, Ivone
Coelho, Lina
Ferreira-Valente, Alexandra
author_sort Jarego, Margarida
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description BACKGROUND: This study aimed at assessing the mental health status of adults living in Portugal during the national lockdown of March 2020 to May 2020, how study participants coped with stress during the national lockdown, as well as the association between coping responses and mental health status. METHODS: 430 adults from the general population living in Portugal completed measures of mental health status and coping. RESULTS: Participants reported a mental health status in the normal range. Most commonly used coping responses were acceptance, planning and active coping. The use of instrumental and emotional support, self-blame, venting, denial, behavioural disengagement, and substance use were associated with poorer mental health. Active coping, positive reframing, acceptance, and humour were associated with better mental health. However, only positive reframing and humour significantly predicted better mental health, while only substance use predicted poorer mental health. CONCLUSIONS: Findings suggest that there was not a significant negative impact of the Portuguese national lockdown in the adults living in Portugal. Findings supported positive reframing and humour as being adaptive coping responses in this context. These responses should be encouraged by healthcare professionals and targeted in the context of psychosocial intervention programs directed to most vulnerable populations.
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spelling pubmed-97558312022-12-16 Do coping responses predict better/poorer mental health in Portuguese adults during Portugal's national lockdown associated with the COVID-19? Jarego, Margarida Pimenta, Filipa Pais-Ribeiro, José Costa, Rui M. Patrão, Ivone Coelho, Lina Ferreira-Valente, Alexandra Pers Individ Dif Article BACKGROUND: This study aimed at assessing the mental health status of adults living in Portugal during the national lockdown of March 2020 to May 2020, how study participants coped with stress during the national lockdown, as well as the association between coping responses and mental health status. METHODS: 430 adults from the general population living in Portugal completed measures of mental health status and coping. RESULTS: Participants reported a mental health status in the normal range. Most commonly used coping responses were acceptance, planning and active coping. The use of instrumental and emotional support, self-blame, venting, denial, behavioural disengagement, and substance use were associated with poorer mental health. Active coping, positive reframing, acceptance, and humour were associated with better mental health. However, only positive reframing and humour significantly predicted better mental health, while only substance use predicted poorer mental health. CONCLUSIONS: Findings suggest that there was not a significant negative impact of the Portuguese national lockdown in the adults living in Portugal. Findings supported positive reframing and humour as being adaptive coping responses in this context. These responses should be encouraged by healthcare professionals and targeted in the context of psychosocial intervention programs directed to most vulnerable populations. Elsevier Ltd. 2021-06 2021-02-03 /pmc/articles/PMC9755831/ /pubmed/36540054 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.110698 Text en © 2021 Elsevier Ltd. 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.
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Jarego, Margarida
Pimenta, Filipa
Pais-Ribeiro, José
Costa, Rui M.
Patrão, Ivone
Coelho, Lina
Ferreira-Valente, Alexandra
Do coping responses predict better/poorer mental health in Portuguese adults during Portugal's national lockdown associated with the COVID-19?
title Do coping responses predict better/poorer mental health in Portuguese adults during Portugal's national lockdown associated with the COVID-19?
title_full Do coping responses predict better/poorer mental health in Portuguese adults during Portugal's national lockdown associated with the COVID-19?
title_fullStr Do coping responses predict better/poorer mental health in Portuguese adults during Portugal's national lockdown associated with the COVID-19?
title_full_unstemmed Do coping responses predict better/poorer mental health in Portuguese adults during Portugal's national lockdown associated with the COVID-19?
title_short Do coping responses predict better/poorer mental health in Portuguese adults during Portugal's national lockdown associated with the COVID-19?
title_sort do coping responses predict better/poorer mental health in portuguese adults during portugal's national lockdown associated with the covid-19?
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9755831/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36540054
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.110698
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