1. Perceived Stress of Quarantine and Isolation During COVID-19 Pandemic: A Global Survey
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Kevin Crispino, Adriana Viola Miranda, Le Van Truong, Akshay Raut, Irfan Ullah, Roman Pavlenko, Amr Hassan, Sze Jia Ng, Hoda Omran, Minh Duc Nguyen Tran, Asad Ali Khan, Ian Christopher Rocha, Jeza Abdul Aziz, Dmytro Pavlenko, and Andrés Estrella
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Isolation (health care) ,Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ,media_common.quotation_subject ,RC435-571 ,law.invention ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,law ,Quarantine ,Pandemic ,Stress (linguistics) ,survey ,030212 general & internal medicine ,media_common ,Original Research ,Psychiatry ,quarantine ,COVID-19 ,perceived stress status ,Mental health ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,Feeling ,Marital status ,Psychology ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,mental health ,Demography - Abstract
Aims: Understanding of the perceived stress and coping strategies adopted by people is important for contemplating the consequences of a pandemic on mental health of people globally. In this study, we intended to assess the perceived stress status under quarantine/isolation globally during the COVID-19 pandemic.Methods: This is a multicentre, multinational cross-sectional study that recruited isolated/quarantined individuals suspected or confirmed to have COVID-19 to assess the psychological impact of the quarantine/isolation experience by answering a survey distributed online.Results: The study was conducted across 63 participating countries, gaining 1,871 valid responses. There was a higher proportion of female participants in the Moderate to High Perceived Stress Scores (MH-PSS) group compared to the Low Perceived Stress Score group (66.0 vs. 52.0%) and a higher proportion of individuals whose marital status was single had MH-PSS (57.1%). Also, individual's religion (Christian, Hindu, and Muslim), no formal education level, being exposed to a confirmed or suspected COVID-19 patient, being forced to be quarantined/isolated, uncomfortable feeling during quarantine period may significantly increase the risk of MH-PSS (p < 0.05).Conclusions: Many factors can predict stress in COVID-19 pandemic including female sex, being single, religion, no formal education, involuntary quarantine, location and reason of quarantine/isolation, and place of exposure.
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- 2021