Psychological impact of COVID-19 lockdowns among adult women: the predictive role of individual differences and lockdown duration.
Women Health
; 61(7): 668-679, 2021 08.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1319084
ABSTRACT
COVID-19 pandemic has altered women's mental health as a consequence of the global threat and the lockdown measures adopted by public health policies. It has been suggested that women are at a higher risk for mood alterations, but most of the studies are cross-sectional or have only considered the first days of the confinement in their longitudinal designs. The present study was aimed at evaluating temporal changes in anxiety and depression in a general sample of 155 non-infected adult Spanish women after a complete quarantine. It also explored the predictive role of personality, the establishment of new routines and physical activity during lockdown in a pre-post design assessing temporal and clinical mood changes after 5 weeks of lockdown. Logistic regression analyses showed that higher neuroticism and depressive levels at baseline, lower routines engagement, and lower physical activity during lockdown predicted depression caseness, whereas anxiety caseness was best predicted by higher neuroticism, more days of lockdown and greater anxiety symptoms at baseline. It is concluded that lockdown duration, increased neuroticism and baseline levels of anxiety and depression are risk factors for women's mental health, while routines and physical activity emerge as protective factors for managing psychological wellbeing during the pandemic lockdowns.
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Anxiety
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Exercise
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Quarantine
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Depression
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Pandemics
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COVID-19
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Individuality
Type of study:
Cohort study
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Etiology study
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Experimental Studies
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
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Randomized controlled trials
Limits:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Middle aged
Country/Region as subject:
Europa
Language:
English
Journal:
Women Health
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
03630242.2021.1954133
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