Abstract
As a sudden public event, COVID-19 had caused a great impact on the physical and mental health of people. During this period, people paid great attention to the information of COVID-19. This study investigated the emotional and mental health conditions of 511 residents in the early stage of COVID-19. The results showed that most people were nervous and panic in this period. Individuals who were exposed to more positive information had a lower degree of negative emotional experience; people got more positive and mixed information had significantly better mental health and sleep conditions than people received more negative emotions.
Highlights
1.1 Mental health in the COVID-19The COVID-19 had quickly become an emergency public event in China, due to its diverse transmission routes, long incubation period, strong infectivity, rapid diffusion rate and high mortality rate
While COVID-19 posed a threat to people’s lives and mental health [1], people may experience psychological stress reactions such as anxiety, worry and exhaustion. If this stress response was not timely get social support and psychological intervention, it would affect mental health and even turn to psychological stress disorder.Since the outbreak of COVID-19, people all over the world have generally shown a significant increase in depression and anxiety symptoms and pain, and their health conditions have deteriorated [2]
Current research shows that exposure to COVID-19 related information does affect the mental health of residents [6][7]
Summary
The COVID-19 had quickly become an emergency public event in China, due to its diverse transmission routes, long incubation period, strong infectivity, rapid diffusion rate and high mortality rate. While COVID-19 posed a threat to people’s lives and mental health [1], people may experience psychological stress reactions such as anxiety, worry and exhaustion. If this stress response was not timely get social support and psychological intervention, it would affect mental health and even turn to psychological stress disorder.Since the outbreak of COVID-19, people all over the world have generally shown a significant increase in depression and anxiety symptoms and pain, and their health conditions have deteriorated [2]. While more attention is paid to the psychological problems of infected patients and their families, bereaved persons, and frontline medical staff, the mental health problems of some marginalized people have been largely ignored, such as the elderly and those with chronic diseases, with physical illnesses and with mental illnesses, etc. [3]
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