Anxiety, depression and sleep problems: a second wave of COVID-19.
Anxiety, depression and sleep problems: a second wave of COVID-19.
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DOI:
10.1136/gpsych-2020-100299
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发表时间:
2020
影响因子:
11.9
通讯作者:
COCONEL Group
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文献类型:
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作者:
Peretti-Watel P;Alleaume C;Léger D;Beck F;Verger P;COCONEL Group
Dear Editor, During the early spring of 2020, as the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic spread across the globe like a viral tsunami, many countries urgently implemented unprecedented mitigation measures to slow it down, following the example of China, where the disease first emerged at the end of 2019. As a result, more than 3 billion unprepared people worldwide had to cope with living under stringent lockdown measures for weeks or months, depending on the country. Together with the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people from this disease, a frightening emotional shock has touched populations everywhere around the planet. Millions have lost their jobs, others have had their personal lives changed drastically; the elderly, for example, have sometimes been isolated from any visits. To our knowledge, no guidelines to prevent psychological trauma have been proposed, even for the most vulnerable individuals. Nonetheless, before this crisis began, several experts had warned about the potential impact of such measures on the populations’ mental health, based on previous experiences of quarantine, as summarised in a review published, as this pandemic reached Europe and before any lockdowns. 1 This warning was confirmed a few days later by the publication of a nationwide study conducted in China reporting that the quarantine triggered a wide variety of psychological disorders. 2 In France, one of the hardest hit countries in Europe, a nationwide lockdown started on 17 March and lasted till 11 May. Public health authorities made daily recommendations on how to prevent COVID-19 infection with almost no specific advice on psychological prevention. Our interest was, therefore, to assess the French population’s mental health after the onset of this unprecedented 8-week lockdown. At the end of March 2020, we began repeated weekly national cross-sectional online surveys, the COCONEL (COronavirus & CONfinement, Enquête Longitudinale) survey. Representative samples of the French population aged 18 years and older were drawn from an online research panel of more than 750 000 households stratified for sex, age, occupational status, education level, size of town and region. The survey conducted during the last 4 days of lockdown (7–10 May) focused on mental health (participants: n= 2003) and included the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) and the General Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7) instruments to screen, respectively, for major depression and generalised anxiety disorders during the previous 2 weeks. 3 4 We applied a cut-off point of 15 for the PHQ-9 to identify individuals with moderate to severe depressive symptoms, and a cut-off point of 15 on the GAD-7 to define severe anxiety. For the PHQ-9, we also used a second lower cut-off point of 10 to identify individuals with moderate depressive symptoms and compare our results with the data collected in France in 2014. 5 Participants were also asked if they had experienced sleep problems over the last week and if they felt they needed psychological support from a health professional during the lockdown. We used the following item to assess sleep problems: did you have sleep problems during the last week:(A) not at all,(B) few,(C) a lot? It initially came from the quality-of-life scale ‘The Duke health profile’. 6 It has been regularly used in French surveys during the last decade, and we found that it was significantly associated with the claim of insomnia (according to International Classification of Sleep Disorders, Second Edition, and Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV)). 7 We used it because this allowed us to …
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