The Association of Cardiometabolic Disease with Psychological Factors in Colombian People during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Agustín Aibar-Almazán,Gloria Cecilia Vega-Ávila,Yulieth Rivas-Campo,Patricia Alexandra García-Garro,Fidel Hita-Contreras,María Isabel Afanador-Rodríguez,Yolanda Castellote-Caballero,Antonio Martínez-Amat,Diego Fernando Afanador-Restrepo

doi:10.3390/jcm10214959

Agustín Aibar-Almazán, Gloria Cecilia Vega-Ávila + Show 7 more

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https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm10214959

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Abstract

During the COVID-19 pandemic, psychological disorders have been documented in the population, and their exacerbation in vulnerable populations such as those with Cardiometabolic Diseases (CD) might challenge health systems. This study determined psychological factors associated with CD in Colombian adults during the COVID-19 pandemic. For this purpose, 284 persons were evaluated, 142 without CD and 142 with CD. Sociodemographic data were collected, and the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ), the SF-12v2, the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and the Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale (ZSDS), which were integrated into an online form, were used. Through a simple and multiple logistic regression model, it was shown that CD was associated with low sleeping quality (LSQ) (OR = 3.51) and with depressive symptoms (DS) (OR = 1.98). In addition, in the group with CD, the presence of DS was related to BMI (OR = 2.45), and LSQ was related to living with persons at risk for COVID-19 (OR = 3.64) and BMI (OR = 5.88). In conclusion, this study showed that people with CD have a higher chance of presenting DS and LSQ. Furthermore, living with people at risk for COVID-19 was related to the presence of LSQ.

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The disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)is still considered a public health emergency of international importance [1]
The sample was made up of 284 participants (64.75% men) who were grouped according to the presence or absence of Cardiometabolic Diseases (CD) into two balanced groups in terms of the number of participants
This study showed that people with a CD diagnosis were more physically active during the COVID-19 pandemic than people without CD

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Is still considered a public health emergency of international importance [1]. Latin American public health problems include social factors such as poverty, unemployment and low government budgets for dealing with pandemic situations [3]. Different mental health problems were analyzed by recent research during the pandemic in the general population, [6] as well as in specific population groups; the elderly, [7] health care workers and [8] children and adolescents [9,10]. Other research included vulnerable groups such as people with chronic non-infectious diseases [11]. Research focused on this last population group continues to be rare, especially in Colombia

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