TY - JOUR
T1 - COVID‐19 Pandemic in Portugal
T2 - psychosocial and health‐related factors associated with psychological discomfort
AU - Pais‐ribeiro, José
AU - Ferreira‐valente, Alexandra
AU - Jarego, Margarida
AU - Sánchez‐rodríguez, Elisabet
AU - Miró, Jordi
N1 - Funding Information:
A.F.-V. is supported by a Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT—Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, I.P.) Post-doctoral grant (grant SFRH/BPD/121452/2016). M.J. is supported by an FCT doctoral grant (2020.10251. BD). E.S.-R.’s and J.M.’s works are partly supported by grants from the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness (RTI2018-09870-B-I00; RED2018-102546-T), the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033: PID2020-113869RA-I00), the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), the Government of Catalonia (AGAUR; 2017SGR-1321), the Fundación Grünenthal (Spain), and ICREA-Acadèmia. The William James Center for Research is supported with national funds from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT—Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, I.P.), in the context of the project UID/04810/2020.
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PY - 2022/3/1
Y1 - 2022/3/1
N2 - The COVID‐19 pandemic is a stressful long‐lasting event with an increasingly negative impact upon individuals. This study aimed at assessing the magnitude of depression, anxiety, and stress among adults living in Portugal during the first mandatory lockdown of 2020, and the psychosocial and health‐related factors associated with these symptoms. A sample of 484 adults (73% women) with an average age of 40 years old (Standard Deviation, SD = 14.03) responded to an online survey. The survey included measures of depression, anxiety, stress, social support, COVID‐ 19 interference in daily life, attitudes towards COVID‐19, and health perception. The impact of the lockdown on psychological well‐being was large, with up to 36% of the participants showing signs of at least mild psychological discomfort (i.e., depression, anxiety, and stress). Social support, COVID‐19 interference on daily life, health perception, and age, explained all the dependent variables. Education level, income, attitudes towards COVID‐19, and gender explained some of the dependent variables. These results suggest that the COVID‐19 pandemic has a serious impact on the psychological health of Portuguese adults. The role of the procedures to control the pandemic on the mental health of Portuguese adults should not be underestimated.
AB - The COVID‐19 pandemic is a stressful long‐lasting event with an increasingly negative impact upon individuals. This study aimed at assessing the magnitude of depression, anxiety, and stress among adults living in Portugal during the first mandatory lockdown of 2020, and the psychosocial and health‐related factors associated with these symptoms. A sample of 484 adults (73% women) with an average age of 40 years old (Standard Deviation, SD = 14.03) responded to an online survey. The survey included measures of depression, anxiety, stress, social support, COVID‐ 19 interference in daily life, attitudes towards COVID‐19, and health perception. The impact of the lockdown on psychological well‐being was large, with up to 36% of the participants showing signs of at least mild psychological discomfort (i.e., depression, anxiety, and stress). Social support, COVID‐19 interference on daily life, health perception, and age, explained all the dependent variables. Education level, income, attitudes towards COVID‐19, and gender explained some of the dependent variables. These results suggest that the COVID‐19 pandemic has a serious impact on the psychological health of Portuguese adults. The role of the procedures to control the pandemic on the mental health of Portuguese adults should not be underestimated.
KW - COVID‐19
KW - Psychological discomfort
KW - COVID‐19 interference
KW - Psychosocial predictors
KW - Sociodemographic predictors
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85126308935&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/ijerph19063494
DO - 10.3390/ijerph19063494
M3 - Article
C2 - 35329180
AN - SCOPUS:85126308935
SN - 1661-7827
VL - 19
JO - International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
JF - International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
IS - 6
M1 - 3494
ER -
