Prepandemic Resilience to Trauma and COVID-19 Infection in Older Women.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Prior work suggests that psychological resilience to trauma may protect not only mental but also physical health. This study examined the relationship of prepandemic psychological resilience to lifetime trauma with self-reported COVID-19 infection and symptoms during the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods

Data are from 18,670 longitudinal cohort participants in the Nurses' Health Study II. Based on prior evidence that trauma and subsequent distress can increase infection risk and severity, and that psychological assets may offset this risk, we hypothesized higher versus lower psychological resilience to prior trauma would be associated with lower risk for COVID-19 infection. Prepandemic resilience was assessed via self-report between 2017 and 2019 based

SUBMITTER: Scoglio AAJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11371542 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature