Download or read book Predicting Anxiety and Depression During the COVID 19 Pandemic written by Brooklynn Bailey and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Objective: Substantial increases in symptoms of anxiety and depression have been reported among the general public during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Prior to the pandemic, individual risk factors for emotional disorders have been identified by a considerable body of research. However, COVID-19 has brought exposure to a variety of new stressors, including risk of infection and stress and isolation related to infection control procedures. Well studied transdiagnostic vulnerability factors as well as novel risk factors for anxiety and depression need to be examined in this context. This study utilized machine learning regularization and variable selection methods to identify key individual risk factors for anxiety and depressive symptoms over the course of the pandemic. Methods: Adults in the United States (N = 1,200) completed seven online self-report assessments over a 4.5-month period (data collected April 24-October 3, 2020). Anxiety and depressive symptoms were assessed at each time point using the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale-7 and the Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology. Cumulative symptom severity across the assessment period was calculated using area under the curve (AUC). A machine learning approach to elastic net regularized regression was used to select predictors of 1) cumulative anxiety severity and 2) cumulative depression severity among a set of 68 sociodemographic, psychological, and pandemic-related baseline variables. Results: Using established cut scores at the initial assessment, nearly half of participants met criteria for probable generalized anxiety disorder (n = 564, 47.0%) and a quarter met criteria for probable major depressive disorder (n = 306, 25.5%). For cumulative anxiety severity, 52 selected baseline variables predicted 79.7% of the variance (predicted R2). Cumulative anxiety severity was most strongly explained by perceived stress, depressive symptom reactivity, and brooding. For cumulative depression severity, the combination of 46 selected baseline variables predicted 76.2% of the variance (predicted R2). Comorbid generalized anxiety, health anxiety, and poor sleep contributed most strongly to predicting depression. There were considerable similarities in the risk factors identified across models. Depressive symptom reactivity, full-time employment, and living with someone age 60+ were among the most important predictors of greater symptom severity in both models. Important psychological risk factors that represent potential targets for interventions include depressive symptom reactivity, brooding, instrumental social support, and hopelessness. Discussion: Many established risk factors for anxiety and depression emerged as important in the context of the pandemic, including greater stress and comorbid psychopathology. Contrary to pre-pandemic research, full-time employment and being married/cohabiting were related to greater risk of anxiety and depression. Several coping strategies which may be adaptive in other contexts, such as use of instrumental social support, were associated with symptoms over the study period. Characteristics associated with COVID-19 risk (e.g., living with someone age 60+, having a chronic health condition) also emerged as risk factors for anxiety and depression. Findings suggest that although many risk factors for internalizing psychopathology appear to generalize to the pandemic, differential relationships and novel contributors need to be considered. Findings highlight risk factors for internalizing psychopathology during the pandemic and suggest possible treatment targets for psychological interventions.

Download or read book 2016 3rd International Conference on Computer and Information Sciences ICCOINS written by IEEE Staff and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this conference is to provide an excellent platform for professionals, engineers, academicians and practitioners worldwide to share and exchange research knowledge and ideas in technologies and applications in the field that relates to information and communication technology and information systems This conference promises a wide variety of topics that emphasize on the development of latest technology and innovation towards a sustainable environment that support the values of life and activities in the global and social perspectives Among the main topics include computer intelligence, software engineering, information sciences and data communications and networks systems

Download or read book Age of Onset of Mental Disorders written by Giovanni de Girolamo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-11 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a thorough and critical review of current knowledge about the age of onset of mental disorders. The opening chapters offer information about the impact of the age of onset on the clinical picture, course, and outcome of physical illnesses, and about the neurobiological implications and correlates of different ages of onset. The impact and correlates of the ages of onset of all the most important mental disorders are then discussed in detail by internationally renowned scientists. The background to the book is the recognition that a better understanding of age of onset makes it possible to estimate the lifetime risk of disorders, helps to elucidate pathogenesis, and facilitates efficient, targeted clinical management. The book will be of value for clinicians, mental health professionals, mental health researchers, epidemiologists, and different stakeholders in the mental health field.

Download or read book Coping with COVID 19 written by Nicolette Carnahan and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The COVID-19 pandemic has led to increased levels of anxiety and depression worldwide. The current study examined predictors of anxiety and depression as well as longitudinal changes in distress at two times points during the pandemic in the United States. We also looked at disparities between White and Non-White participants. We found Non-White participants scored higher on all dependent measures than White participants in May 2020, indicating greater distress. Further, significant depression predictors for the whole sample were COVID-19 diagnosis, previous depression, and younger age, and health anxiety predictors were previous anxiety diagnosis and no COVID-19 diagnosis. Avoidant coping predicted state anxiety and depression; more time spent watching or reading COVID-19 related news predicted all three outcome variables; intolerance of uncertainty predicted state anxiety and health anxiety, and looming cognitive style predicted health anxiety. Spiritual well-being significantly mitigated all three types of symptoms. Finally, we found differences in predictors between White and non-White participants, such that for all three dependent measures there were more significant predictors for White participants, however there was substantial overlap in predictors. We further examined the impact of cognitive vulnerability factors and avoidant coping on anxiety and depression longitudinally. After testing for temporal directionality between looming cognitive style and intolerance of uncertainty, we found the best model fit and a significant serial mediation for looming cognitive style at time one leading to increased intolerance of uncertainty at time two leading to more avoidant coping resulting in increased anxiety and depression at time two. Depression scores significantly increased over time and moderation analyses revealed that when people had lower levels of depression at time one and used less avoidant coping, they had significantly less symptoms at time two; and when people had higher levels of depression at time one and used less approach coping, they had significantly higher levels of depression at time two. Results suggest a novel model in conceptualizing anxiety and depression during the pandemic, namely highlighting looming cognitive style as an underlying cognitive vulnerability factor and the impact of coping on distress. Further implications include understanding predictors and mitigating factors of psychological symptoms during COVID-19 to inform psychological treatment of depression and anxiety. Moreover, understanding the differences in predictors of anxiety and depression in White versus Non-White groups in creating treatment plans.

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Download or read book A Crisis Within A Public Health Crisis U S Public Health Workers Race Related Stress Trauma Anxiety Depression and Burnout During the COVID 19 Pandemic written by Barbara C. Wallace and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the total respondents (n = 486), 80% experienced insomnia, 68.5% experienced depression, 81.7% experienced anxiety and 61.3% experienced trauma. BIPOC public health professionals suffered a moderately high overall level of burnout (mean = 2.578, SD = 0.486, min = 1, max = 3.9) and a high level of exhaustion (mean = 2.744, SD = 0.532, min = 1, max = 4). Paired t-tests found respondents' physical and mental health status were each significantly worse during the pandemic (p

Download or read book Disease Control Priorities Third Edition Volume 4 written by Vikram Patel and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mental, neurological, and substance use disorders are common, highly disabling, and associated with significant premature mortality. The impact of these disorders on the social and economic well-being of individuals, families, and societies is large, growing, and underestimated. Despite this burden, these disorders have been systematically neglected, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, with pitifully small contributions to scaling up cost-effective prevention and treatment strategies. Systematically compiling the substantial existing knowledge to address this inequity is the central goal of this volume. This evidence-base can help policy makers in resource-constrained settings as they prioritize programs and interventions to address these disorders.

Download or read book Machine Learning and Data Mining written by Igor Kononenko and published by Horwood Publishing. This book was released on 2007-04-30 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good data mining practice for business intelligence (the art of turning raw software into meaningful information) is demonstrated by the many new techniques and developments in the conversion of fresh scientific discovery into widely accessible software solutions. Written as an introduction to the main issues associated with the basics of machine learning and the algorithms used in data mining, this text is suitable foradvanced undergraduates, postgraduates and tutors in a wide area of computer science and technology, as well as researchers looking to adapt various algorithms for particular data mining tasks. A valuable addition to libraries and bookshelves of the many companies who are using the principles of data mining to effectively deliver solid business and industry solutions.

Download or read book The ICD 10 Classification of Mental and Behavioural Disorders written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 1992 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides clinical descriptions diagnostic guidelines and codes for all mental and behavioural disorders commonly encountered in clinical psychiatry. The book was developed from chapter V of the Tenth Revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-10). The clinical descriptions and diagnostic guidelines were finalized after field testing by over 700 clinicians and researchers in 110 institutes in 40 countries making this book the product of the largest ever research effort designed to improve psychiatric diagnosis. Every effort has been made to define categories whose existence is scientifically justifiable as well as clinically useful. The classification divides disorders into ten groups according to major common themes or descriptive likeness a new feature which makes for increased convenience of use. For each disorder the book provides a full description of the main clinical features and all other important but less specific associated features. Diagnostic guidelines indicate the number balance and duration of symptoms usually required before a confident diagnosis can be made. Inclusion and exclusion criteria are also provided together with conditions to be considered in differential diagnosis. The guidelines are worded so that a degree of flexibility is retained for diagnostic decisions in clinical work particularly in the situation where provisional diagnosis may have to be made before the clinical picture is entirely clear or information is complete. ... As befitting a publication of considerable influence the amount of work that went into preparing ICD-10 has been formidable... - The International Journal of Social Psychiatry

Download or read book Looming Vulnerability written by John H. Riskind and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stimulating resource presents the Looming Vulnerability Model, a nuanced take on the cognitive-behavioral conceptualization of anxiety, worry, and other responses to real or imagined threat. The core feature of the model—the perception of growing, rapidly approaching threat—is traced to humans’ evolutionary past, and this dysfunctional perception is described as it affects cognitive processing, executive functioning, emotions, physiology, and behavior. The LVM framework allows for more subtle understanding of mechanisms of and risk factors for the range of anxiety disorders as well as for more elusive subclinical forms of anxiety, worry, and fear. In addition, the authors ably demonstrate how the LVM can inform and refine cognitive-behavioral and other approaches to conceptualization, assessment, and treatment of these often disabling conditions. This important volume: · Introduces the Looming Vulnerability Model in its evolutionary, developmental, cognitive, and ecological contexts. · Unites diverse theoretical strands regarding anxiety, fear, and worry including work on wildlife behavior, experimental cognition and perception, neuroimaging, and emotion. · Defines the looming cognitive style as a core aspect of vulnerability. · Describes the measurement of the looming cognitive style, Looming Maladaptive Style Questionnaire, and measures of looming vulnerability for specific disorders. · Details diverse clinical applications of the LVM across the anxiety disorders. Spotlighting phenomena particularly relevant to current times, Looming Vulnerability, brings a wealth of important new ideas to researchers studying anxiety disorders and practitioners seeking more avenues for treating anxiety in their patients.

Download or read book Insomnia Distress Tolerance And Mental Health During The COVID 19 Pandemic written by Brooke Rita Leonelli and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mental health problems, which are associated with sleep difficulties during stressful events, have increased during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Insomnia is an important sleep phenomenon that predicts development of depressive and anxiety disorders, though mechanisms explaining this relationship remain unclear. Distress tolerance, the ability to withstand aversive affective experiences, is a transdiagnostic construct that may influence this relationship. It was hypothesized that greater psychological distress would predict more severe insomnia. Further, it was hypothesized that more severe insomnia and poorer distress tolerance would be associated with greater depression and anxiety. Depressive and anxiety symptoms were hypothesized to predict diagnoses of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) and Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD). Lastly, distress tolerance was hypothesized to mediate the relationship between insomnia and diagnosis of MDD and GAD. Data were obtained from a prospective observational study with three nested samples. The first sample was 5,547 college students who completed a survey study in March-April 2020, the second was 615 college students who completed a survey study in September-October 2020, and the final sample was 100 college students recruited for a clinical interview study between October 2020 and April 2021. Measures included the Kessler Screening Scale for Psychological Distress, Insomnia Severity Index, Distress Tolerance Scale, Patient Health Questionnaire-9, PROMIS Emotional Distress Short Form - Anxiety, and the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-5 Disorders. Greater psychological distress predicted more severe insomnia ([beta] = .29, p

Download or read book Pandemics and Emerging Infectious Diseases written by Robert Dingwall and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-06-21 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Infectious disease pandemics are a rising threat in our globalizing world. This agenda-setting collection provides international analysis of the pressing sociological concerns they confront us with, from cross-border coordination of public health governance to geopolitical issues of development and social equity. Focuses on vital sociological issues raised by resurgent disease pandemics Detailed analysis of case studies as well as broader, systemic factors Contributions from North America, Europe and Asia provide international perspective Bold, agenda-setting treatment of a high-profile topic

Download or read book The Effects of COVID 19 Induced Stress Anxiety and Depression on the Eating Behavior of College Women written by Natalie Simpson and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Increases in the prevalence of disordered eating patterns have been linked to distress and poor mental well-being. Additionally, COVID-19 has been linked to both depressive and anxious symptomatology, along with increased feelings of distress (Fitzpatrick et al., 2020). Because disordered eating is particularly prevalent among college-aged women, this study sought to determine how depression, anxiety, and stress affect eating behaviors of college women in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. 179 women at Butler University, aged 18-24, gave informed consent before completing a questionnaire pertaining to their demographics, their stress surrounding COVID, and their weight change since March 2020. The next set of questionnaires asked about their anxiety, stress, and depression, as well as their eating behaviors, first at the time they completed the survey (September-December 2021) and next during the COVID-19 lockdown period (March-August 2020). Depression, anxiety, and stress were significantly higher during COVID-19 than during the fall of 2021, but college-aged women reported more restraint in their eating at the time of the study. No overall differences emerged in uncontrolled or emotional eating across the two time points. In correlational analyses, depression and anxiety during COVID-19 correlated with both uncontrolled and emotional eating (depression also correlated with cognitive restraint). Although change in self-reported stress levels across time did not predict changes in disordered eating, improvements in depression and anxiety from Spring 2020 to Fall 2021 correlated with less emotional eating across time. Together, these findings reinforce past research showing that college-aged women are a particularly vulnerable population during times of crisis"--Unnumbered leaf 1.

Download or read book Perceptions and Sources of Community Impacting Feelings of Anxiety and Depression During COVID 19 written by Alyssa A. Bedford and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purpose: To examine how perception of community respect, care, safety and acceptance relate to feelings of depression among adults living in the U.S. during COVID-19 and determine which sources of community predict favorable perceptions of community. Methods: Bi-variate correlations were conducted examining the relationship of depression with perception of community items and overall perception of community. A binary logistic regression analysis was used to determine which sources of community significantly predicted group membership. Results: Feelings of depression were significantly related to perception of community respect, and safety and acceptance. Only extended family and neighborhood community predicted favorable perceptions of community. Discussion and Implications: Interventions which communicate associated perception items for depression are recommended. Engagement with extended family and neighborhood communities may promote mental well-being as the odds of having a favorable perception of community is higher within these two sectors.

Download or read book Anxiety Disorders written by Yong-Ku Kim and published by Springer. This book was released on 2020-02-17 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reviews all important aspects of anxiety disorders with the aim of shedding new light on these disorders through combined understanding of traditional and novel paradigms. The book is divided into five sections, the first of which reinterprets anxiety from a network science perspective, examining the altered topological properties of brain networks in anxiety disorders. The second section discusses recent advances in understanding of the neurobiology of anxiety disorders, covering, for example, gene-environmental interactions and the roles of neurotransmitter systems and the oxytocin system. A wide range of diagnostic and clinical issues in anxiety disorders are then addressed, before turning attention to contemporary treatment approaches in the context of novel bio-psychosocial-behavioral models, including bio- and neurofeedback, cognitive behavioral therapy, neurostimulation, virtual reality exposure therapy, pharmacological interventions, psychodynamic therapy, and CAM options. The final section is devoted to precision psychiatry in anxiety disorders, an increasingly important area as we move toward personalized treatment. Anxiety Disorders will be of interest for all researchers and clinicians in the field.

Download or read book COVID 19 Vs Cancer related Stress written by Tessa Rose Blevins and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Background: Patients with advanced-stage lung cancer experience both health-related and psychological symptoms at diagnosis and during treatment. The COVID-19 pandemic emerged and may have raised both health-related and psychological concerns for patients with lung cancer undergoing cancer treatment. A cross-sectional study was conducted to test the hypothesis that cancer-related stress would contribute more variance to depression and anxiety symptoms than COVID-related stress, (most likely) due to the patients’ current diagnoses of cancer and the psychological toll of diagnosis and treatment. Methods: Seventy-six patients with advanced lung cancer previously accrued for a cohort study (Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier: NCT03199651) completed measures of cancer-related stress, COVID-19 related stress, and depressive and anxiety symptoms from April 2020 – July 2020 during their routine follow ups. Results: To determine which stressor contributed more variance to depressive and anxiety symptoms, hierarchical linear regressions revealed cancer-related stress was a significant predictor of depressive symptoms, with the model explaining 71% of the variance (F(14,30)=5.327, p

Download or read book Oxford Handbook of Anxiety and Related Disorders written by Martin M. Antony and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook reviews research and clinical developments through synthetic chapters written by experts from various fields of study and clinical backgrounds. It discusses each of the main anxiety disorders and examines diagnostic criteria, prevalence rates, comorbidity, and clinical issues.