Mental health improvement after the COVID-19 pandemic in individuals with psychological distress.
Journal
Scientific reports
ISSN: 2045-2322
Titre abrégé: Sci Rep
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101563288
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
07 Mar 2024
07 Mar 2024
Historique:
received:
20
11
2023
accepted:
28
02
2024
medline:
8
3
2024
pubmed:
8
3
2024
entrez:
7
3
2024
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
The COVID-19 pandemic and associated countermeasures had an immensely disruptive impact on people's lives. Due to the lack of systematic pre-pandemic data, however, it is still unclear how individuals' psychological health has been affected across this incisive event. In this study, we analyze longitudinal data from two healthy samples (N = 307) to provide quasi-longitudinal insight into the full trajectory of psychological burden before (baseline), during the first peak, and at a relative downturn of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our data indicated a medium rise in psychological strain from baseline to the first peak of the pandemic (d = 0.40). Surprisingly, this was overcompensated by a large decrease of perceived burden until downturn (d = - 0.93), resulting in a positive overall effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health (d = 0.44). Accounting for this paradoxical positive effect, our results reveal that the post-pandemic increase in mental health is driven by individuals that were already facing psychological challenges before the pandemic. These findings suggest that coping with acute challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic can stabilize previously impaired mental health through reframing processes.
Identifiants
pubmed: 38454076
doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-55839-3
pii: 10.1038/s41598-024-55839-3
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eng
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Organisme : Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
ID : DFG 44541416-TRR58
Organisme : Volkswagen Foundation
ID : AZ 99451
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