Severe COVID anxiety among adults in the United Kingdom: cohort study and nested feasibility trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

People with severe COVID anxiety have poor mental health and impaired functioning, but the course of severe COVID anxiety is unknown and the quality of evidence on the acceptability and impact of psychological interventions is low.

Methods

A quantitative cohort study with a nested feasibility trial. Potential participants aged 18 and over, living in the UK with severe COVID anxiety, were recruited online and from primary care services. We examined levels of COVID anxiety in the six months after recruitment, and factors that influenced this, using linear regression. Those scoring above 20 on the short Health Anxiety Inventory were invited to participate in a feasibility trial of remotely delivered Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Health Anxiety (CBT-HA). Exclusion

SUBMITTER: Crawford MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10771646 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature