Poor mental health is associated with loneliness and boredom during Covid-19-related restriction periods in patients with pre-existing depression.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In 2020-2021, many European countries put in place temporary lockdown measures due to the increase in COVID-19 cases, although such measures have negative psychological effects. As pre-existing mental disorders are a risk factor of negative psychological consequences during pandemics, it is important to identify specific predictors of psychological distress caused by restrictive measures in patients with history of depressive episodes. The aims of this study were i) to determine whether depressive, anxious symptomatology and suicidal ideation (i.e. mental health outcomes) were influenced by stay-at-home orders, and ii) to identify the psychosocial dimensions that influenced these mental health outcomes in patients with pre-existing depression during/after COVID-19-relate

SUBMITTER: Olie E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9482872 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature