The high mental health burden of “Long COVID” and its association with on-going physical and respiratory symptoms in all adults discharged from hospital

Abstract Background The COVID-19 outbreak is an unprecedented global public health burden, which popped up in China in late 2019 to early 2020 and distributed worldwide rapidly. Indeed, this pandemic transmission has raised global physical and mental health concerns. Mental health issues that concur with this public health emergency may pose anxiety, depression, and posttraumatic stress disorder. In Iraq, there are no registered known data on the psychological consequence of the public during the communicable disease outbreak. The ongoing study aims to address the paucity of these data as an appraisal of the mental health burden represented by anxiety disorder related to the global COVID-19 era. Results Among the 1591 Iraqi respondents, 788 (49.5%) accounted for having health anxiety over the current home restriction situation. Younger ages experienced more COVID-19-related health anxiety compared to older ages. Females reported higher health anxiety compared to males (57.7% vs 42.3%). The health care professionals reported 20.9% health anxiety. The Iraqi southern population displayed more health anxiety compared to the northern and middle portions. This work showed about half of the respondents were spending over 60 min focusing on news of COVID-19. We found that 80 to 90% carrying out preventive efforts and home quarantine against COVID-19 infection. Interestingly, participants experienced fear from the risk of COVID-19 infection, whether more or equal to a level of war scare, in 70.1% of the sample. Conclusions In Iraq, during the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly half of the respondents have health anxiety. Southern Iraqi cities displayed higher rates of anxiety. Also, being female, younger ages, holding an academic degree, or being a college student are associated with more prominent degrees of anxiety. Furtherly, it is important to adopt strategies for public health education and prevention and alerting future governmental responses focusing on psychological state impact among the general population.

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High mental health burden for Africa’s youth

Nature Africa ◽

10.1038/d44148-021-00097-y ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Elsabe Brits

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Health Burden

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Mental Health Burden Among Impoverished HIV-Positive Patients in Peru

Journal of the International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care ◽

10.1177/1545109710385120 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 18-25 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Sonya Shin ◽

Maribel Muñoz ◽

Adolfo Caldas ◽

Ying Wu ◽

Jhon Zeladita ◽

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Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Hiv Positive ◽

Health Burden

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LB1494 Alopecia areata is associated with a substantial mental health burden in US inpatients

Journal of Investigative Dermatology ◽

10.1016/j.jid.2018.06.024 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 138 (9) ◽

pp. B5

Author(s):

V. Singam ◽

K.R. Patel ◽

H. Lee ◽

S. Rastogi ◽

J.I. Silverberg

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Alopecia Areata ◽

Health Burden

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Mental health burden and neuropsychiatric deficits of chronic arsenic exposure: First results of the Vietnamese field study

Understanding the Geological and Medical Interface of Arsenic - As 2012 ◽

10.1201/b12522-72 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 218-220

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Field Study ◽

Arsenic Exposure ◽

Health Burden ◽

First Results ◽

Chronic Arsenic Exposure

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Association Between Physical Exercise and Mental Health During the COVID-19 Outbreak in China: A Nationwide Cross-Sectional Study

Frontiers in Psychiatry ◽

10.3389/fpsyt.2021.722448 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 ◽

Author(s):

Yingjun Nie ◽

Yuanyan Ma ◽

Yankong Wu ◽

Jiahui Li ◽

Ting Liu ◽

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Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Physical Exercise ◽

Exercise Intervention ◽

Mitigation Strategies ◽

Psychological Status ◽

Whole Body ◽

Moderate Intensity ◽

Negative Consequences ◽

Physical And Mental Health ◽

Health Burden

The COVID-19 has undergone several mutations, and caused deleterious effects on physical and mental health of people worldwide. Whilst physical exercise is known for its positive effect on enhancing immunity and reducing the negative consequences of unhealthy emotional states caused by the pandemic; there is a severe lack of psychological exercise intervention measures and mitigation strategies to advance the knowledge and role of physical exercise to improve mental health in most countries. This study surveyed the association between physical exercise and mental health burden during the COVID-19 outbreak in China to better understand the influence of different physical exercise types on reducing mental health burden during the pandemic. ANOVA, binary logistic regression, the chi-square test, and Spearman's correlation analysis were used for statistical analysis. 14,715 participants were included. The results showed that Chinese residents had several poor mental health conditions during the COVID-19 outbreak. And there was a significant positive correlation between the extent of adverse effects on mental health and provincial proportions of confirmed COVID-19 cases (r = 0.365, p < 0.05). Some main factors caused an unhealthy psychological status, including epidemic severity (62.77%, 95% CI 58.62-65.64%), prolonged home quarantine (60.84%, 95% CI 58.15-63.25%), spread of large amounts of negative information about COVID-19 in the media (50.78%, 95% CI 47.46-53.15%), limitations in daily life and social interaction (45.93%, 95%CI 42.46-47.55%), concerns about students' learning (43.13%, 95% CI 40.26-45.48%), and worries about being infected (41.13%, 95% CI 39.16-45.23%). There was a significant association between physical exercise and mental health. The largest associations were seen for home-based group entertainment exercise (i.e., family games, rope skipping, and badminton), Chinese traditional sports (i.e., Chinese martial arts, Taijiquan and Qigong), and popular sports (i.e., yoga, video dancing, sensory-motor games, and whole-body vibration), as well as durations of 30-60 min per session, frequencies of three to five times per week and a total of 120-270 min of moderate-intensity exercise weekly during the COVID-19 outbreak (p < 0.05).

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Mental health among young adults in prison: The importance of childhood-onset conduct disorder

BJPsych Open ◽

10.1192/bjpo.bp.116.003889 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 78-84 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Björn Hofvander ◽

Henrik Anckarsäter ◽

Märta Wallinius ◽

Eva Billstedt

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Young Adults ◽

Conduct Disorder ◽

Psychiatric Disorders ◽

Violent Offenders ◽

Childhood Onset ◽

Important Indicator ◽

Health Burden ◽

Axis I ◽

The Impact

BackgroundThe psychiatric health burden of prisoners is substantial. However, there is a lack of high-quality studies of psychiatric disorders among young adults with a high risk of reoffending.AimsTo investigate the lifetime prevalence of psychiatric disorders and use of mental health services among young male violent offenders and the impact of childhood-onset conduct disorder (COCD).MethodA nationally representative cohort (n = 270, age 18–25) of male offenders was followed back in medical records and clinically assessed by gold standard methods. Lifetime prevalences are presented together with odds ratios (ORs) as risk estimates in relation to COCD.ResultsPrevious use of psychiatric services among the participants was high but their lifetime psychiatric morbidity was even higher, with 93% meeting criteria for at least one Axis I disorder. The COCD group was overrepresented in most clinical categories and carried five times higher odds (OR = 5.1, 95% CI 2.0–12.8) of a psychotic disorder, three times higher odds (OR = 3.2, 95% CI 1.2–8.5) of a substance use disorder and two times higher odds of a mood disorder (OR = 2.3, 95% CI 1.3–4.0) or anxiety disorder (OR = 2.0, 95% CI 1.1–3.5).ConclusionsThe mental health burden is substantial among young violent offenders, and COCD is an important indicator of future mental health problems which must be a priority for public health efforts.

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

Homeopathy ◽

10.1055/s-0041-1725060 ◽

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.

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Mental health burden of COVID-19

Family Practice ◽

10.1093/fampra/cmaa100 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Areeb Mian ◽

Sima Al-Asad ◽

Shujhat Khan

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Health Burden

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