PMID- 33234835

OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20210503
LR - 20210508
IS - 1538-9855 (Electronic)
IS - 0363-3624 (Print)
IS - 0363-3624 (Linking)
VI - 46
IP - 3
DP - 2021 May-Jun 01
TI - Nursing Students in Crisis Mode: Fluctuations in Anxiety During the COVID-19-
Related
Lockdown.
PG - E33-E38
LID - 10.1097/NNE.0000000000000955 [doi]
AB - BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic initiated a period of new and difficult
challenges
for nursing students. PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to assess the change
in
levels of anxiety and ways of coping when the lockdown was being lifted
compared
with the period of the most severe lockdown restrictions. METHODS: First- to
fourth-year nursing students in Israel (N = 244) completed 2 surveys
conducted
during the initial lockdown and 5 weeks later. RESULTS: When the restrictions
were
lightened, the mean anxiety score decreased from 9.3 to 7.5 (P < .0001).
Among
Muslims students, the trend was the opposite, and anxiety levels increased.
Stronger
resilience was associated with lower odds for anxiety. Mental disengagement
and
information seeking were associated with higher anxiety levels. CONCLUSIONS:
The
pandemic created unparalleled stressful situations for nursing students.
Faculty
should have heightened awareness of these stressors and act to implement
innovative
resolutions for the problems that arise.
CI - Copyright © 2020 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.
FAU - Savitsky, Bella
AU - Savitsky B
AD - Author Affiliation: Department of Nursing, School of Health Sciences,
Ashkelon
Academic College, Ashkelon, Israel.
FAU - Findling, Yifat
AU - Findling Y
FAU - Ereli, Anat
AU - Ereli A
FAU - Hendel, Tova
AU - Hendel T
LA - eng
PT - Journal Article
TA - Nurse Educ
JT - Nurse educator
JID - 7701902
SB - N
MH - Adaptation, Psychological
MH - Adult
MH - Anxiety/*epidemiology
MH - COVID-19/epidemiology/*prevention & control
MH - Female
MH - Humans
MH - Israel/epidemiology
MH - Male
MH - Quarantine/legislation & jurisprudence/*psychology
MH - Students, Nursing/*psychology/statistics & numerical data
MH - Surveys and Questionnaires
MH - Young Adult
PMC - PMC8103845
COIS- The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
EDAT- 2020/11/26 06:00
MHDA- 2021/05/04 06:00
CRDT- 2020/11/25 05:39
PHST- 2020/11/26 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/05/04 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2020/11/25 05:39 [entrez]
AID - 00006223-202105000-00026 [pii]
AID - NNE50782 [pii]
AID - 10.1097/NNE.0000000000000955 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO - Nurse Educ. 2021 May-Jun 01;46(3):E33-E38. doi: 10.1097/NNE.0000000000000955.

PMID- 33338556
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20210223
LR - 20210223
IS - 1878-4216 (Electronic)
IS - 0278-5846 (Print)
IS - 0278-5846 (Linking)
VI - 107
DP - 2021 Apr 20
TI - Mental health consequences of the Covid-19 outbreak in Spain. A longitudinal
study
of the alarm situation and return to the new normality.
PG - 110219
LID - S0278-5846(20)30535-2 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2020.110219 [doi]
AB - AIMS: The objective is to conduct a longitudinal analysis of the effects of
the
pandemic and alarm situation on the mental health of the general population
at three
points in time: two weeks after beginning the confinement, after a month, and
after
two months, when the lockdown was lifted and the country returned to the new
normality. METHODS: The evaluations were carried out by means of an online
survey,
with a sample of 3480 persons in the first data collection and 1041 and 569
persons
in the successive evaluation periods. The presence of depressive symptoms,
anxiety
and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was evaluated by means of screening
tests.
Sociodemographic data, Covid-19 variables, loneliness, psychological well-
being,
social support, discrimination and a sense of belonging, were collected.
RESULTS:
Depressive symptoms increased significantly throughout the confinement,
decreasing
at the last assessment but not dropping to previous levels. In anxiety, there
are no
significant changes between the three evaluations, but a downward trend can
be seen
over time. Regarding the symptomatology of PTSD, a downward trend is observed

throughout the three evaluations, with significantly lower scores between the
first
and third assessments. The different regression models developed reveal the
importance of perceived loneliness and spiritual well-being as the main
predictors
of mental health, as well as the importance of the lower age for depression
and the
female gender for anxiety and PSTD. CONCLUSIONS: This research shows that the

pandemic has had a negative impact on our mental health, which still does not
seem
to be at pre-crisis levels, although it has improved as the emergency
situation
subsides. These results underline the importance of paying greater attention
to
mental health, and reveal key variables such as spiritual well-being and
perceived
loneliness in which to intervene from different care services, as well as
younger
people and women as vulnerable groups on which to focus more attention.
CI - Copyright © 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
FAU - González-Sanguino, C
AU - González-Sanguino C
AD - Chair Against Stigma Grupo 5-Complutense University of Madrid, School of
Psychology,
Personality, Evaluation and Clinical Psychology Department, Complutense
University
of Madrid, Spain. Electronic address: clagon06@ucm.es.
FAU - Ausín, B
AU - Ausín B
AD - Chair Against Stigma Grupo 5-Complutense University of Madrid, School of
Psychology,
Personality, Evaluation and Clinical Psychology Department, Complutense
University
of Madrid, Spain.
FAU - Castellanos, M A
AU - Castellanos MA
AD - Chair Against Stigma Grupo 5-Complutense University of Madrid, School of
Psychology,
Psychobiology and Methodology in Behavioral Sciences Department, Complutense
University of Madrid, Spain.
FAU - Saiz, J
AU - Saiz J
AD - Chair Against Stigma Grupo 5-Complutense University of Madrid, School of
Psychology,
Social, Labor and Differential Psychology Department, Complutense University
of
Madrid, Spain.
FAU - Muñoz, M
AU - Muñoz M
AD - Chair Against Stigma Grupo 5-Complutense University of Madrid, School of
Psychology,
Personality, Evaluation and Clinical Psychology Department, Complutense
University
of Madrid, Spain.
LA - eng
PT - Journal Article
DEP - 20201215
TA - Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry
JT - Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry
JID - 8211617
SB - IM
MH - Adolescent
MH - Adult
MH - COVID-19/*epidemiology/*psychology
MH - Disease Outbreaks
MH - Female
MH - Humans
MH - Loneliness/psychology
MH - Longitudinal Studies
MH - Male
MH - Mental Health/*trends
MH - Middle Aged
MH - Quarantine/*psychology/*trends
MH - Social Support
MH - Spain/epidemiology
MH - Stress, Psychological/*epidemiology/*psychology
MH - Surveys and Questionnaires
MH - Young Adult
PMC - PMC7833458
OTO - NOTNLM
OT - *Anxiety
OT - *Coronavirus
OT - *Covid-19
OT - *Depression
OT - *Longitudinal
OT - *Posttraumatic stress disease
OT - *Quarantine
COIS- None of the authors have a conflict of interest.
EDAT- 2020/12/19 06:00
MHDA- 2021/02/24 06:00
CRDT- 2020/12/18 20:10
PHST- 2020/10/09 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2020/12/11 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2020/12/19 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/02/24 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2020/12/18 20:10 [entrez]
AID - S0278-5846(20)30535-2 [pii]
AID - 110219 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2020.110219 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO - Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry. 2021 Apr 20;107:110219. doi:
10.1016/j.pnpbp.2020.110219. Epub 2020 Dec 15.

PMID- 33882109
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20210519
LR - 20210519
IS - 1932-6203 (Electronic)
IS - 1932-6203 (Linking)
VI - 16
IP - 4
DP - 2021
TI - Health anxiety, coping mechanisms and COVID 19: An Indian community sample at
week 1
of lockdown.
PG - e0250336
LID - 10.1371/journal.pone.0250336 [doi]
LID - e0250336
AB - It is critical to gain an understanding of the impact of the COVID 19
pandemic and
the associated lockdown restrictions on the psychological, social and
behavioural
functioning of the general public, in order to inform public health promotion
and
future health service resource allocation. This cross-sectional study,
completed
during week 1 of lockdown in India, reports on data from 234 participants
using an
online survey. Data regarding health anxiety, coping mechanisms and locus of
control
was collected. Structural equation modelling was used to assess the
relationship
between locus of control, coping mechanisms, health anxiety and age. Age
related
differences in both locus of control and coping strategies were found.
Younger
people experienced more health-related anxiety and were more likely to engage
with
social media as a coping mechanism. Mindfulness-based strategies may reduce
health
anxiety by increasing tolerance of uncertainty experienced during the COVID
19
pandemic.
FAU - Barron Millar, Evelyn
AU - Barron Millar E
AD - Population Health Sciences Institute, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle
University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
FAU - Singhal, Divya
AU - Singhal D
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-2227-2109
AD - Goa Institute of Management, Sanquelim, Goa, India.
FAU - Vijayaraghavan, Padmanabhan
AU - Vijayaraghavan P
AD - Goa Institute of Management, Sanquelim, Goa, India.
FAU - Seshadri, Shekhar
AU - Seshadri S
AD - National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bengaluru, India.
FAU - Smith, Eleanor
AU - Smith E
AD - Translational and Clinical Research Institute, Faculty of Medical Sciences,
Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
AD - Cumbria Northumberland Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle Upon
Tyne,
United Kingdom.
FAU - Dixon, Pauline
AU - Dixon P
AD - School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences, Faculty of
Humanities and
Social Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
FAU - Humble, Steve
AU - Humble S
AD - School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences, Faculty of
Humanities and
Social Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
FAU - Rodgers, Jacqui
AU - Rodgers J
AD - Population Health Sciences Institute, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle
University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
FAU - Sharma, Aditya Narain
AU - Sharma AN
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-4632-4521
AD - Translational and Clinical Research Institute, Faculty of Medical Sciences,
Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
AD - Cumbria Northumberland Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle Upon
Tyne,
United Kingdom.
LA - eng
PT - Journal Article
DEP - 20210421
TA - PLoS One
JT - PloS one
JID - 101285081
SB - IM
MH - Adaptation, Psychological
MH - Adolescent
MH - Adult
MH - Anxiety/epidemiology/*psychology
MH - Anxiety Disorders/epidemiology/psychology
MH - COVID-19/epidemiology/*psychology
MH - Communicable Disease Control/methods
MH - Cross-Sectional Studies
MH - Female
MH - Humans
MH - India/epidemiology
MH - Male
MH - Mental Health
MH - Middle Aged
MH - Quarantine/*psychology
MH - SARS-CoV-2/isolation & purification
MH - Stress, Psychological/psychology
MH - Surveys and Questionnaires
MH - Young Adult
PMC - PMC8059846
COIS- The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
EDAT- 2021/04/22 06:00
MHDA- 2021/05/20 06:00
CRDT- 2021/04/21 17:19
PHST- 2020/07/29 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2021/04/05 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2021/04/21 17:19 [entrez]
PHST- 2021/04/22 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/05/20 06:00 [medline]
AID - PONE-D-20-23653 [pii]
AID - 10.1371/journal.pone.0250336 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO - PLoS One. 2021 Apr 21;16(4):e0250336. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0250336.
eCollection
2021.

PMID- 32831083
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20200909
LR - 20201218
IS - 1477-7517 (Electronic)
IS - 1477-7517 (Linking)
VI - 17
IP - 1
DP - 2020 Aug 24
TI - Harm reduction in an emergency response to homelessness during South Africa's

COVID-19 lockdown.
PG - 60
LID - 10.1186/s12954-020-00404-0 [doi]
LID - 60
AB - BACKGROUND: Caledonian Stadium, the main mass temporary shelter for homeless
people
in the City of Tshwane, was created as a local response to the imperatives of
the
novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) National State of Disaster lockdown in
South
Africa. This is a case study of the coordinated emergency healthcare response

provided by the University of Pretoria's Department of Family Medicine

between 24
March and 6 April 2020. METHODS: This study uses a narrative approach to
restory
situated, transient, partial and provisional knowledge. Analysis is based
on documented data and iteratively triangulated interviews on the operational

experiences of selected healthcare first responders directly involved in the

shelter. RESULTS: The impending lockdown generated intense interactions by
UP-DFM to
prepare for the provision of COVID-19 and essential generalist primary with
partners
involved in the Community Oriented Substance Use Programme (COSUP). With
approximately 2000 people at the shelter at its peak, the numbers exceeded
expectations. Throughout, while government officials tried to secure bedding,
food
and toilets, the shelter was poorly equipped and without onsite management.
The
COSUP clinical team prioritised opioid substitution therapy using methadone
and
COVID-19 screening over generalist healthcare to manage withdrawal and
contain
tension and anxiety. COSUP and its partners helped the city plan and
implement the
safe re-sheltering of all Caledonian residents. CONCLUSION: The Caledonian
shelter
is an account of organisational resilience in the face of homelessness and
substance
use emergencies triggered by lockdown. Through community-oriented, bottom-up
self-organisation, a clinically led team navigated a response to the
immediate needs
 of people who are homeless and/or use drugs that evolved into a more
sustainable
intervention. Key lessons learnt were the importance of communicating with
people
directly affected by emergencies, the value of using methadone to reduce
harms
during emergencies and the imperative of including OST in essential primary
healthcare.
FAU - Marcus, Tessa S
AU - Marcus TS
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-7218-0376
AD - COPC Research Unit, Department of Family Medicine, School of Medicine,
Faculty of
Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, P/Bag x323, Arcadia, City of
Tshwane, 0007,
South Africa. tessa.marcus@up.ac.za.
FAU - Heese, Jan
AU - Heese J
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-9471-2281
AD - COPC Research Unit, Department of Family Medicine, School of Medicine,
Faculty of
Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, P/Bag x323, Arcadia, City of
Tshwane, 0007,
South Africa.
FAU - Scheibe, Andrew
AU - Scheibe A
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-3238-0699
AD - COPC Research Unit, Community Oriented Substance Use Programme, Department of
Family
Medicine, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of
Pretoria,
P/Bag x323, Arcadia, City of Tshwane, 0007, South Africa.
FAU - Shelly, Shaun
AU - Shelly S
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-8199-876X
AD - COPC Research Unit, Community Oriented Substance Use Programme, Department of
Family
Medicine, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of
Pretoria,
P/Bag x323, Arcadia, City of Tshwane, 0007, South Africa.
FAU - Lalla, Sasha X
AU - Lalla SX
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-9811-9410
AD - COPC Research Unit, Community Oriented Substance Use Programme, Department of
Family
Medicine, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of
Pretoria,
P/Bag x323, Arcadia, City of Tshwane, 0007, South Africa.
FAU - Hugo, Jannie F
AU - Hugo JF
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-9406-8801
AD - COPC Research Unit, Department of Family Medicine, School of Medicine,
Faculty of
Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, P/Bag x323, Arcadia, City of
Tshwane, 0007,
South Africa.
LA - eng
PT - Journal Article
PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20200824
TA - Harm Reduct J
JT - Harm reduction journal
JID - 101153624
SB - IM
MH - Adolescent
MH - Adult
MH - *Betacoronavirus
MH - COVID-19
MH - Coronavirus Infections/*prevention & control
MH - Emergencies
MH - Female
MH - *Harm Reduction
MH - *Homeless Persons
MH - Humans
MH - Male
MH - Middle Aged
MH - Opiate Substitution Treatment/*methods
MH - Pandemics/*prevention & control
MH - Pneumonia, Viral/*prevention & control
MH - Quarantine/*methods
MH - SARS-CoV-2
MH - South Africa
MH - Young Adult
PMC - PMC7443613
OTO - NOTNLM
OT - *COVID-19
OT - *Emergency shelter
OT - *Harm reduction
OT - *Homelessness
OT - *National state of disaster lockdown
OT - *Opioid substitution therapy
COIS- Marcus, Heese, and Shelly have nothing to disclose. Scheibe reports personal
fees
from Gilead and Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation outside the submitted work.
Hugo
reports grants from City of Tshwane during the conduct of the study. Lalla
reports
that his employment at UP is supported by the City of Tshwane COSUP funding.
EDAT- 2020/08/25 06:00
MHDA- 2020/09/10 06:00
CRDT- 2020/08/25 06:00
PHST- 2020/07/03 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2020/08/11 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2020/08/25 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2020/08/25 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2020/09/10 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.1186/s12954-020-00404-0 [pii]
AID - 404 [pii]
AID - 10.1186/s12954-020-00404-0 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO - Harm Reduct J. 2020 Aug 24;17(1):60. doi: 10.1186/s12954-020-00404-0.