Higher anxiety and perceived trauma among COVID-19 patients: a prospective comparative study

BMC Psychiatry

Research

Atiyeh Sarabi-Jamab¹  Nastaran Rezaee²  Behnam Shariati³  Seyed Vahid Shariat³  Fatemeh Sadat Mirfazeli³  Seyed Hamid Reza Faiz⁴  Alireza Kordi⁵ 

[1] Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran;Department of Veterinary, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran;Mental Health Research Center,Psychosocial Health Research Institute, Department of psychiatry, School of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran;Minimally Invasive Surgery Research Center, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, School of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran;School of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran;

关键词: COVID-19;    Coronavirus;    Anxiety;    Depression;    Perceived trauma;    OCD;    Obsessions-compulsion-disorder;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12888-023-04574-6

 received in 2022-05-28, accepted in 2023-01-27,  发布年份 2023

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

Background and purposePsychiatric disorders such as anxiety, depression, and traumatic stress are not rare during infectious outbreaks, as the COVID-19 pandemic has posed a great concern to the general population. In this study, we aimed to investigate whether experiencing psychiatric symptoms during COVID-19 is the result of the burden of carrying an illness or the COVID-19 itself.MethodTwo hundred ten subjects and three different groups of participants (COVID-19 patients, university staff, and orthopedic patients) were recruited. They answered a demographic questionnaire, Yale-Brown Obsessive–Compulsive Scale (YBOCS) test for OCD symptoms, Impact of Event Scale-Revised (IES-R) for perceived trauma, Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) for anxiety, and Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) for depression assessments using phone or face-to-face interviews.ResultAt least one OCD symptom was observed in 85.7% of the subjects. However, there was no significant difference between the 3 groups (p = 0.2194). Perceived trauma was significantly higher among COVID-19 patients followed by university staff and orthopedic patients (23.73, 16.21, 11.51 mean IES-R scores respectively, p = 8.449e−14). COVID-19 patients also showed higher anxiety (mean BAI score: 17.00) than the university staff and orthopedic patients’ group (9.22 and 5.56 respectively) (p = 6.175e−08). BDI score did not show much variation for depression, the mean score was 9.66, 9.49, and 6.7 for the COVID-19 patients, university staff, and orthopedic patients respectively, (p = 0.2735).ConclusionPerceived trauma and anxiety symptoms are significantly higher in COVID-19 patients and the symptoms of OCD and depression do not differ between COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 people, so the necessity of screening and following treatment of patients with COVID-19 should be kept in mind.Trial registrationIR.IUMS.FMD.REC.1399.761.

【 授权许可】

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© The Author(s) 2023

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