scholarly journals The Coronavirus Health and Impact Survey (CRISIS) reveals reproducible correlates of pandemic-related mood states across the Atlantic

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aki Nikolaidis ◽  
Diana Paksarian ◽  
Lindsay Alexander ◽  
Jacob Derosa ◽  
Julia Dunn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Negative Mood ◽  
Lifestyle Changes ◽  
Mood States ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
International Studies ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
The Us ◽  
High Degree

AbstractThe COVID-19 pandemic and its social and economic consequences have had adverse impacts on physical and mental health worldwide and exposed all segments of the population to protracted uncertainty and daily disruptions. The CoRonavIruS health and Impact Survey (CRISIS) was developed for use as an easy to implement and robust questionnaire covering key domains relevant to mental distress and resilience during the pandemic. Ongoing studies using CRISIS include international studies of COVID-related ill health conducted during different phases of the pandemic and follow-up studies of cohorts characterized before the COVID pandemic. In the current work, we demonstrate the feasibility, psychometric structure, and construct validity of this survey. We then show that pre-existing mood states, perceived COVID risk, and lifestyle changes are strongly associated with negative mood states during the pandemic in population samples of adults and in parents reporting on their children in the US and UK. These findings are highly reproducible and we find a high degree of consistency in the power of these factors to predict mental health during the pandemic.

scholarly journals The Coronavirus Health and Impact Survey (CRISIS) reveals reproducible correlates of pandemic-related mood states across the Atlantic.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aki Nikolaidis ◽  
Diana Paksarian ◽  
Lindsay Alexander ◽  
Jacob DeRosa ◽  
Julia Dunn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Distress ◽  
Negative Mood ◽  
Lifestyle Changes ◽  
Mood States ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
International Studies ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Adverse Impacts ◽  
The Us

The COVID-19 pandemic and its social and economic consequences have had adverse impacts on physical and mental health worldwide and exposed all segments of the population to protracted uncertainty and daily disruptions. The CoRonavIruS health and Impact Survey (CRISIS) was developed for use as an easy to implement and robust questionnaire covering key domains relevant to mental distress and resilience during the pandemic. In the current work, we demonstrate the feasibility, psychometric structure and construct validity of this survey. We then show that pre-existing mood states, perceived COVID risk, and lifestyle changes are strongly associated with negative mood states during the pandemic in population samples of adults and in parents reporting on their children in the US and UK. Ongoing studies using CRISIS include international studies of COVID-related ill health conducted during different phases of the pandemic and follow-up studies of cohorts characterized before the COVID pandemic.

scholarly journals Positive Mental Imagery in the Intervention of Negative Mood: A Randomized Controlled Trial

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenjing Zhou ◽  
Peizhi Li ◽  
Xu Lei ◽  
yuan yh
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Imagery ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Negative Mood ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Training Group ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Imagery Training

Abstract Background The aim of this study was to explore the intervention effect of positive mental imagery training on college students’ negative emotions in adults with depression trend. Methods A 2 (group: training group, non-training group) and 4 (time: pre-, post-, 1-week follow-up, and 6-week follow-up) mixed design was used in the present study, with the group as between-subjects factor and the time as within-subjects factor. Forty-nine participants with depressive tendency were randomly assigned to either the imagery training group or the non-training group. Except for negative interpretive bias were assessed before and after training, participants’ depression and anxiety symptoms, vividness and likelihood of mental imagery were assessed at all four time points. Results Compared to the pre-training, imagery group reported improvement in depression and trait anxiety scores and the likelihood of positive imagery across subsequent three assessments, and showed the improvement in the vividness of positive imagery at post-training. However, there was no significant between-group difference was found in negative interpretation bias. Conclusions The positive mental imagery training could effectively promote negative emotions and anxiety in adults with depression trend after 1-week training, and the effects of mental imagery could at least last for 6weeks, which provides a choice for self-regulation in daily life and is a promising way of mental health care. Often imagine a positive future, at least to some extent, good for our physical and mental health.

scholarly journals Self-reported health status, treatment decision and survival in asymptomatic and symptomatic patients with aortic stenosis in a Western Norway population undergoing conservative treatment: a cross-sectional study with 18 months follow-up

BMJ Open ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (8) ◽  
pp. e016489 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kjersti Oterhals ◽  
Rune Haaverstad ◽  
Jan Erik Nordrehaug ◽  
Geir Egil Eide ◽  
Tone M Norekvål
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Aortic Valve ◽  
Treatment Decision ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Western Norway ◽  
Asymptomatic Patients ◽  
Reported Health ◽  
Self Reported Health Status

ObjectivesTo investigate symptoms and self-reported health of patients conservatively treated for aortic stenosis (AS) and to identify factors associated with treatment decision and patient outcomes.DesignA cross-sectional survey with an 18-month follow-up.SettingOne tertiary university hospital in Western Norway.ParticipantsIn all, 1436 patients were diagnosed with AS between 2000 and 2012, and those 245 still under conservative treatment in 2013 were included in this study.Primary and secondary outcome measuresPrimary outcome measures were symptoms and self-reported health status. Secondary outcomes were treatment decision and patient survival after 18 months.ResultsA total of 136 patients with mean (SD) age 79 (12) years, 52% men responded. Among conservatively treated patients 77% were symptomatic. The symptom most frequently experienced was dyspnoea. Symptomatic patients reported worse physical and mental health compared with asymptomatic patients (effect size 1.24 and 0.74, respectively). In addition, symptomatic patients reported significantly higher levels of anxiety and depression compared with asymptomatic patients. However, symptom status did not correlate with haemodynamic severity of AS. After 18 months, 117 (86%) were still alive, 20% had undergone surgical aortic valve replacement (AVR) and 7% transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI). When adjusting for age, gender, symptomatic status, severity of AS and European system for cardiac operative risk evaluation (EuroSCORE), patients with severe AS had more than sixfold chance of being scheduled for AVR or TAVI compared with those with moderate AS (HR 6.3, 95% CI 1.9 to 21.2, p=0.003). Patients with EuroSCORE ≥11 had less chance for undergoing AVR or TAVI compared with those with EuroSCORE ≤5 (HR 0.06, 95% CI 0.01 to 0.46, p=0.007).ConclusionsSymptoms affected both physical and mental health in conservatively treated patients with AS. Many patients with symptomatic severe AS are not scheduled for surgery, despite the recommendations in current guidelines. The referral practice for AVR is a path for further investigation.

Antimonium Tartaricum as a Possible Homeopathic Prophylactic Remedy in the COVID-19 Epidemic

Homeopathy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernanda Maria Simões da Costa Fujino ◽  
Ana Amélia Campos Claro Olandim ◽  
Renata Lemonica ◽  
Jennifer Anne Coggan ◽  
Eduardo Nishimiya Takeyama ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Clinical Condition ◽  
Respiratory Symptoms ◽  
Health Surveillance ◽  
High Impact ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Ministry Of Health ◽  
Materia Medica ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Degree Of Similarity

AbstractThe current COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) epidemic has proved challenging due to its high impact on physical and mental health. According to Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathy, in an epidemic the most severe symptoms of the clinical condition presented by the population in question should be the basis for selecting the medication that is as similar as possible to them, and which should be administered to individuals who have been exposed to the disease but have not yet developed it. This medicine is called the genus epidemicus. This study aims to demonstrate the reasoning used to propose the homeopathic medicine Antimonium tartaricum (Ant-t) as a genus epidemicus in the COVID-19 epidemic. It was decided to develop the reasoning based on the respiratory symptoms described in the epidemiological bulletins presented by the Health Surveillance Secretariat of the Ministry of Health of Brazil, as these symptoms are the most serious of the disease. After repertorization, it was confirmed in the Materia Medica that Ant-t has a high degree of similarity with these respiratory symptoms, including the most serious situations, of COVID-19. Homeopathic Ant-t is thus a possible prophylactic genus epidemicus in the COVID-19 epidemic; further studies are needed to test this conclusion.

FRI0548 Physical and mental health in ra patients treated with biologic dmards - two-year follow-up data of the german biologics register rabbit

2013 ◽  
Vol 72 (Suppl 3) ◽  
pp. A560.2-A561
Author(s):  
K. Gerhold ◽  
A. Richter ◽  
M. Schneider ◽  
H. J. Bergerhausen ◽  
W. Demary ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Biologic Dmards ◽  
Biologics Register

scholarly journals Declining well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic reveals US social inequities

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (7) ◽  
pp. e0254114
Author(s):  
Krishna C. Bathina ◽  
Marijn ten Thij ◽  
Danny Valdez ◽  
Lauren A. Rutter ◽  
Johan Bollen
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Predominantly White ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Negative Mood ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Ordinary Least Squares ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Communities Of Color ◽  
The Us ◽  
Over Time

Background The COVID-19 pandemic led to mental health fallout in the US; yet research about mental health and COVID-19 primarily rely on samples that may overlook variance in regional mental health. Indeed, between-city comparisons of mental health decline in the US may provide further insight into how the pandemic is disproportionately affecting at-risk groups. Purpose This study leverages social media and COVID-19-city infection data to measure the longitudinal (January 22- July 31, 2020) mental health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in 20 metropolitan areas. Methods We used longitudinal VADER sentiment analysis of Twitter timelines (January-July 2020) for cohorts in 20 metropolitan areas to examine mood changes over time. We then conducted simple and multivariate Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regressions to examine the relationship between COVID-19 infection city data, population, population density, and city demographics on sentiment across those 20 cities. Results Longitudinal sentiment tracking showed mood declines over time. The univariate OLS regression highlighted a negative linear relationship between COVID-19 city data and online sentiment (β = -.017). Residing in predominantly white cities had a protective effect against COVID-19 driven negative mood (β = .0629, p < .001). Discussion Our results reveal that metropolitan areas with larger communities of color experienced a greater subjective well-being decline than predominantly white cities, which we attribute to clinical and socioeconomic correlates that place communities of color at greater risk of COVID-19. Conclusion The COVID-19 pandemic is a driver of declining US mood in 20 metropolitan cities. Other factors, including social unrest and local demographics, may compound and exacerbate mental health outlook in racially diverse cities.

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