Psychological distress associated with COVID-19 quarantine: Latent profile analysis, outcome prediction and mediation analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mental health of the population during COVID-19 quarantine could be at risk. Previous studies in short quarantines, found mood-related and anxiety symptomatology. Here we aimed to characterize the subtypes of psychological distress associated with quarantine, assess its prevalence, explore risk/protective factors, and possible mechanisms.

Methods

Online cross-sectional data (n = 4408) was collected during the Argentine quarantine, between 1st-17th April 2020 along a small replication study (n = 644). Psychological distress clusters were determined using latent profile analysis on a wide-range of symptoms using the complete Brief-Symptom Inventory-53. Multinomial and Elastic-net regression were performed to identify risk/protective factors among trait-measures (Per

SUBMITTER: Fernandez RS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7413121 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature