The Relationship Between Perceived Stress and Subjective Cognitive Decline During the COVID-19 Epidemic.

ABSTRACT: During the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic, fear of disease and its consequences, recommended lifestyle changes, and severe restrictions set by governments acted as stressors and affected people's mood, emotions, mental health, and wellbeing. Many studies conducted during this crisis focused on affective and physiological responses to stress, but few studies examined how the crisis affected cognition. The present cross-sectional study examined the relationship between physiological, affective, and cognitive responses to the epidemic. In an online survey conducted at the height of the first wave of the epidemic in Slovenia (April 15-25, 2020), 830 Slovenian residents aged 18-85 years reported the effects of stressors (confinement, problems at home, problems at work, lack of necessities, a

SUBMITTER: Podlesek A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8374330 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature