Abstract
The dramatically changing situation during COVID-19 pandemic, is anticipated to provoke psycho-emotional disturbances and somatization arising from the current epidemiological situation that will become a significant problem for global and regional healthcare systems. The aim of this study was to identify the predictors, risk factors and factors associated with mental disorders, headache and potentially stress-modulated parafunctional oral behaviors among the adult residents of North America and Europe as indirect health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. This may help limit the long-term effects of this and future global pandemic crises. The data were collected from 1642 respondents using an online survey. The results demonstrated increased levels of anxiety, depression, headache and parafunctional oral behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic in both North American and European residents. The results of this study facilitated the definition of the group most predicted to experience the aforementioned secondary effects of the pandemic. This group included females younger than 28.5 years old, especially those who were single, less well educated and living in Europe. In case of this and other global crises this will allow faster defining the most vulnerable groups and providing rapid and more targeted intervention.
Highlights
The dramatically changing situation during COVID-19 pandemic, is anticipated to provoke psychoemotional disturbances and somatization arising from the current epidemiological situation that will become a significant problem for global and regional healthcare systems
Some evidence of COVID-19-related mental health issues and headache in the general public has been published[10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27]. Most of these studies were surveys showing increased symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress related to COVID-19, mainly as a result of psychosocial stressors such as fear of negative health impacts, the loss of life and economic issues
We aimed to identify the predictors, risk factors and factors associated with mental disorders, headache and potentially stress-modulated parafunctional oral behaviors among the adult residents of North America and Europe using validated questionnaires administered as an online survey during the COVID-19 pandemic
Summary
The dramatically changing situation during COVID-19 pandemic, is anticipated to provoke psychoemotional disturbances and somatization arising from the current epidemiological situation that will become a significant problem for global and regional healthcare systems. The aim of this study was to identify the predictors, risk factors and factors associated with mental disorders, headache and potentially stress-modulated parafunctional oral behaviors among the adult residents of North America and Europe as indirect health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. This may help limit the long-term effects of this and future global pandemic crises. We aimed to identify the predictors, risk factors and factors associated with mental disorders, headache and potentially stress-modulated parafunctional oral behaviors among the adult residents of North America and Europe using validated questionnaires administered as an online survey during the COVID-19 pandemic. We hope that this study will help prepare global and local healthcare systems by enabling the identification of high-risk groups and the more effective prevention of the secondary effects of the pandemic
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