Habituating to pandemic anxiety: Temporal trends of COVID-19 anxiety over sixteen months of COVID-19.

ABSTRACT: The impact of COVID-19 anxiety on mental health and its association with preventive measures is well-established. We aimed to study how COVID-19 anxiety and its dimensions vary over time (16 months) in a sample of individuals (N = 2717) suffering from mental distress in the pandemic context that participated in a randomized clinical trial testing psychosocial interventions in Brazil. Results showed that pandemic anxiety reduced over time. COVID-19 influences fear of others being infected and concerns about mental health being affected by COVID-19 were more significant than the fear of being infected or the physical health influenced by COVID-19. A similar temporal effect was not found for burnout, and this effect was not correlated with the number of COVID-related deaths. Habituation to pa

SUBMITTER: Costa MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9235285 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature