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COVID-19 lockdown impact on mental health in a large representative sample of Italian adults
- Source :
- Journal of Affective Disorders
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Elsevier B.V., 2021.
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Abstract
- Background The potential benefits of the COVID-19 lockdown need to be carefully weighed versus the possible impact on people's daily life and negative mental health effects.We aimed to assess the prevalence of depression, anxiety, insomnia and quality of life before and during the COVID-19 lockdown,identifying subgroups at higher risk of mental distress as a consequence of COVID-19 associated restrictions. Methods Within the Lost in Italy project, a web-based cross-sectional study was conducted on a representative sample of 6003 Italian adults aged 18–74 recruited from April 27 to May 3, 2020, within the nation-wide stay-at-home order. Results The prevalence of depressive symptoms (PHQ-2 ≥ 3) increased from 14.3% before lockdown to 33.2% during lockdown, anxiety symptoms (GAD-2 ≥ 3) from 18.1% to 41.5%, insufficient sleep (≤6 h/day) from 33.7% to 41.1%, unsatisfactory sleep from 17.0% to 38.8% and unsatisfactory quality of life from 13.1% to 42.1%.Overall, 47.7% reported worsened depressive symptoms, 43.6% worsened anxiety symptoms, sleep quantity (31.5%) and quality (35.0%),and 64.1% worsened quality of life.A statistically significant relationship with all mental health outcomes considered was found for women vs. men (multivariate odds ratio,OR between 1.13 and 1.63), for current vs. never smokers (OR between 1.15 and 1.25), and with increasing physical activity (p for trend
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Cross-sectional study
Lost in italy
Anxiety
Representative survey
03 medical and health sciences
Mental distress
0302 clinical medicine
Quality of life
Insomnia
medicine
Humans
Depression (differential diagnoses)
business.industry
Depression
SARS-CoV-2
COVID-19
Odds ratio
Mental health
030227 psychiatry
Psychiatry and Mental health
Clinical Psychology
Cross-Sectional Studies
Mental Health
Italy
Communicable Disease Control
Quality of Life
Female
medicine.symptom
business
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Demography
Research Paper
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 15732517 and 01650327
- Volume :
- 292
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Affective Disorders
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b175f99ec73f01824248fd39491c8743