Major Stress-Related Symptoms During the Lockdown: A Study by the Italian Society of Psychophysiology and Cognitive Neuroscience

Frontiers in Public Health

Marina de Tommaso¹  Cosimo Urgesi²  Mirta Fiorio³  Daniele Romano⁴  Giuseppe Curcio⁵  Viviana Betti⁶  Giacomo Koch⁷  Emiliano Ricciardi⁸  Sara Invitto⁹  Alberto Grasso⁹  Francesca Garbarini^1,10  Valentina Bruno^1,10  Massimiliano Valeriani^1,11  Maria Concetta Pellicciari^1,12 

[1] Department of Basic Medical Science, Neuroscience and Sense Organs, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy;Department of Languages and Literatures, Communication, Education, and Society, University of Udine, Udine, Italy;Department of Neurosciences, Biomedicine and Movement Sciences, University of Verona, Verona, Italy;Department of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy;Dipartimento di Scienze Cliniche Applicate e Biotecnologiche, Università Degli Studi Dell'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy;Fondazione Santa Lucia IRCCS, Rome, Italy;Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy;Fondazione Santa Lucia IRCCS, Rome, Italy;Dipartimento di Neuroscienze e Riabilitazione, Università di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy;IMT School for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy;INSPIRE LAB - Laboratory of Cognitive and Psychophysiological Olfactory Processes, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy;Manibus Lab, Department of Psychology, University of Torino, Torino, Italy;Neurology Unit, Bambino Gesù Hospital, Rome, Italy;UniCamillus, Saint Camillus International University of Health Science, Rome, Italy;

关键词: Covid-19;    pain;    sleep habits;    olfactory perception;    lockdown;    stress;    anxiety symptoms;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpubh.2021.636089

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

The clinical effects of the Covid-19 pandemic are now the subject of numerous studies worldwide. But what are the effects of the quarantine imposed by the states that implemented the measures of lockdown? The present research aims to explore, in a preliminary way, the major stress-related symptoms during the lockdown, due to Covid-19, in the Italian population. Subjects were asked to fill out a survey, that traced a line identifying the most relevant psychophysiological symptoms that took into account factors such as perceived stress, body perception, perceived pain, quality of sleep, perceptive variations (i.e., olfactory, gustatory, visual, acoustic, and haptic perception). A network approach formulating a hypothesis-generating exploratory analysis was adopted. Main results of the network analysis showed that the beliefs of having had the Covid-19 was related to individual variables (i.e., gender, working in presence, sleep quality, anxiety symptoms), while the familiarity of Covid-19 disease was related to contextual factors (e.g., number of recorded cases in the Region, working in presence). The self-perception of olfactory and perceptive alterations highlighted a great sensorial cross-modality, additionally, the olfactory impairment was related to the belief of having had the Covid-19. Compared to general network data, BAI, perceived stress, anxiety and chronic pain were in relation to daily sleep disturbance. Main study's results show how the management of the Covid-19 stressful representation, in its cognitive aspects, can modulate the psychophysiological responses.

【 授权许可】

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