COVID-19 (2019-nCoV), an acute respiratory tract disease with uncertain causes, is known to have occurred in Wuhan in December 2019. On March 11, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared it a \u201cpandemic\u201d, when the COVID-19 virus increasingly continued to spread across the globe.<\/p>\n
China is among the countries that have been seriously affected by COVID-19 since December 2019. In a study that aimed to analyze the mental health burden of the Chinese people, demographic data, COVID-19-related information, as well as data regarding generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), depressive symptoms, and sleep quality, were collected from 7,236 volunteers by using a web-based questionnaire.<\/p>\n
The overall GAD prevalence, depressive symptoms, and sleep quality of the people were found as 35.1%, 20.1%, and 18.2% respectively. Significantly higher levels of prevalence of GAD and depressive symptoms were reported in the youths, compared to elderlies.<\/strong><\/p>\n When compared to other occupational groups, it was seen that healthcare professionals were under a high risk in terms of low sleep quality. \u00a0Moreover, it was found that age (ages <35), and the time spent to focus on COVID-19 (\u2265 3 hours on a daily basis) were associated with GAD.<\/strong><\/p>\n This study determined that the people had an enormous mental health burden over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. Consequently, monitoring psychological health constantly, and providing early diagnosis and early intervention opportunities for psychiatric and psychological diseases should become a routine as a part of the attempts for a worldwide preparation for diseases, which bear the potential of turning into a pandemic and which threaten the life itself. <\/strong><\/p>\n REFERENCES:<\/strong> Monitoring psychological health constantly, and providing early diagnosis and early intervention opportunities for psychiatric and psychological diseases should become a routine as a part of the attempts for a worldwide preparation for diseases, which bear the potential of turning into a pandemic and which threaten the life itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\nHuang, Y., & Zhao, N. (2020). Generalized anxiety disorder, depressive symptoms and sleep quality during COVID-19 outbreak in China: a web-based cross-sectional survey. Psychiatry Research, 112954.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"