- Title
- Psychological distress, fear and coping strategies during the second and third waves of the COVID-19 pandemic in Southern Germany
- Creator
- Elsayed, Mohamed; Schönfeldt-Lecuona, Carlos; Welte, Xenia; Dardeer, Khaled; Kamal, Manar; Abdelnaby, Ramy; Rudek, Markus; Riedel, Evelyne; Denkinger, Michael; Gahr, Maximilian; Connemann, Bernhard; Alif, Sheikh; Banik, Biswajit; Cross, Wendy; Rahman, Muhammad Aziz
- Date
- 2022
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/188625
- Identifier
- vital:17302
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.860683
- Identifier
- ISSN:1664-0640 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed enormous psychological discomfort and fear across the globe, including Germany. Objectives: To assess the levels of COVID-19 associated psychological distress and fear amongst Southern German population, and to identify their coping strategies. Methods: A cross-sectional survey using an online questionnaire was conducted in healthcare and community settings in the region of Ulm, Southern Germany. Assessment inventories were the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K-10), the Brief Resilient Coping Scale (BRCS), and the Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19S), which were valid and reliable tools. Results: A total of 474 Individuals participated in the study. The mean age was 33.6 years, and 327 (69%) were females. Most participants (n = 381, 80.4%) had high levels of psychological distress, whereas only 5.1% had high levels of fear, and two-thirds of participants showed higher levels of coping. Moderate to very high levels of psychological distress were associated with being female, living alone, distress due to employment changes, experiencing financial impact, having multiple co-morbidities, being a smoker, increased alcohol use over the previous 6 months, contact with COVID-19 cases and healthcare providers for COVID-19-related stress. Individuals who were
- Publisher
- Frontiers Media S.A.
- Relation
- Frontiers in Psychiatry Vol. 13, no. (2022), p.
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Rights
- Copyright © 2022 Elsayed, Schönfeldt-Lecuona, Welte, Dardeer, Kamal, Abdelnaby, Rudek, Riedel, Denkinger, Gahr, Connemann, Alif, Banik, Cross and Rahman
- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- 3202 Clinical sciences; Coping; COVID-19; Cross-sectional survey; Fear; Germany; Mental health; Psychological distress
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