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The pandemic caused by Covid-19 has been an unprecedented social and health emergency worldwide. This is the first study in the scientific literature reporting the psychological impact of the Covid-19 outbreak in a sample of the Spanish population. A cross-sectional study was conducted through an online survey of 3480 people. The presence of depres...
Internalized stigma (IS), in addition to the illness itself, is one of the major challenges that people with mental health problems have to face. The aim of this scoping review and meta-analysis is to update knowledge about this issue and to investigate the influence of different sociodemographic, psychosocial, and clinical variables on IS. English...
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The objective is to conduct a longitudinal analysis of the effects of the pandemic and alarm situation on the mental health of the general population at three points in time: two weeks after beginning the confinement, after a month, and after two months, when the lockdown was lifted and the country returned to the new normality.
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The e...
This study aims to investigate the development and consequences of the internalized stigma (IS) explicitly and implicitly assessed, in relation to a longer time seeking professional help, avoidance of talking about the mental illness, self-esteem and general health perception. A structural equation model was developed in a clinical sample with hete...
Psychopathology networks consist of aspects (e.g., symptoms) of mental disorders (nodes) and the connections between those aspects (edges). This article aims to analyze the research literature on network analysis in psychopathology and mental health for the last ten years. Statistical descriptive analysis was complemented with two bibliometric tech...
Introduction. With the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic, most torture victim care centres had to adapt their forensic assessment methods and move to online methodologies. It is essential to assess the advantages and disadvantages of this type of intervention, which seems to be here to stay. Method. Based on a sample of 21 Istanbul Protocols (IPs) co...
p> Background: Social stigma towards people with mental health problems, homeless people or people with intellectual disabilities leads to a significant restriction of their human rights. Such stigma, which is associated with different conditions of vulnerability, has been assessed over time through surveys. However, intersectional stigma due to ge...
Background. Stigma associated with psychological problems is a major concern that negatively affects people living with different symptomatology, sometimes with serious consequences for their health. The principal purpose of this paper was to carry out an updated systematic review to explore the relationship between the stigma associated with menta...
Background: Covid-19 remains a pandemic that most countries in the world are still
dealing with. This is study aims to report the psychological impact of Covid-19 over time
on the Spanish population.
Methods: A longitudinal study (N = 1041) was carried out with two measurements:
after 2 and 5 weeks starting from the declaration of the state of emer...
Introduction: Women have been shown to be a vulnerable group in relation to mental health problems over time.
Despite this, gender-focused studies are uncommon. The aim of this research is to study mental health in a sample
of people with mental health problems and to analyze the differences and predictors focusing on gender.
Methods: A cross-secti...
Resumen: La pandemia de Covid-19 ha tenido un grave impacto en la salud mental de la
población, que además ha visto mermado su acceso a atención psicológica por diversas barreras. El objetivo del presente estudio es comparar el estado de salud mental de la población española al inicio del confinamiento (N = 3480) y 12 meses después (N = 550), y des...
This research aims to analyze age-related differences in the psychological impact of the Covid-19 confinement situation in a Spanish sample. A longitudinal study (N= 1,041) was conducted through an online survey with two measurements: at two and five weeks after the declaration of the alarm state in Spain. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anx...
This research aimed to study implicit and explicit internalized stigma and its relationship with other variables in a sample of people with distinct mental illness diagnoses (N = 160). Descriptive analysis, mean differences, correlations, and stepwise regression models were conducted. Implicit and explicit internalized stigma was found throughout t...
Background:
This study aims to longitudinally assess the psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the general Spanish population. It uses four assessment points: two weeks after the start of confinement, one month after, two months after, and one year after the first evaluation.
Methods:
Evaluations were conducted through an online surve...
The study aim was to assess the effects of the health emergency and the stay-at-home restrictions on loneliness variables in the Spanish population during the initial stage of COVID-19. A cross-sectional study was conducted through an online survey of 3480 people. From March 14, 2020, screening tests were used to evaluate sociodemographic and COVID...
El objetivo del estudio es analizar longitudinalmente los efectos del confinamiento derivados de la Covid-19 en la soledad de la población general española. Se evaluó mediante una encuesta online en tres momentos: dos semanas después del inicio del confinamiento (N = 3480), un mes después (N = 1041) y dos meses después con la vuelta al a nueva norm...
The COVID-19 lockdown has had a massive psychological impact on mental health in the
general population, with increases in anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Spiritual well-being, specifically peace and meaning, has already been identified as one of the main protective factors for these disorders in the COVID-19 context. The a...
In this study we intend to understand the impact of the COVID-19 crisis and the subsequent stay-at-home orders, on the Spanish population's sense of belonging at three moments in time: at the beginning of the lockdown, after one month of lockdown and with the return to the ''new normality''. A cross-sectional study was conducted through an online s...
COVID-19 disease control efforts and consequences are likely to be complicated by the impact of fear and stigmatization of the novel coronavirus. These complications may also worsen due to the potential compounding of COVID-19 related stigma with stigmatization associated with previously diagnosed conditions. This exploratory study analyzes the exp...
The aim of this study was to explore the role of stigma in different diagnoses of mental illness. A cross-sectional study (N = 255) was developed in two groups: users of a rehabilitation network for people with severe mental illness (Group-I) and people with common diagnoses in an ambulatory psychiatric service (Group-II). Internalized stigma, soci...
The monograph contains studies by international scientists who carry out research on the psychological aspects of COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on our lives. Special attention is given to the experience of providing psychological support in different regions of Russia and abroad. The book presents research-based recommendations for psychological...
Background. The COVID-19 pandemic has been an unprecedented social and health emergency worldwide. Cross-cultural research on mental health during this situation is needed to better understand its consequences.
Objective. To evaluate the different psychological impacts of the crisis and lockdown situation during the first six weeks of COVID emergen...
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Stigma and discrimination have been associated with different diseases and pandemics, with negative consequences for the people who suffered them and for their communities. Currently, COVID-19 has become a new source of stigmatization.
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The aim of the present study is to analyze longitudinally the evolution of intersectional perce...
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is one of the most prevalent conditions among mental disorders in individuals over 65 years. People over 65 who suffer from MDD are often functionally impaired, chronically physically ill, and express cognitive problems. The concordance between a clinician-assessed MDD diagnosis in a primary care setting and MDD asse...
Background: Covid-19 remains a pandemic that most countries in the world are still dealing with. This is study aims to report the psychological impact of Covid-19 over time on the Spanish population. Methods: A longitudinal study (N = 1041) was carried out with two measurements: after 2 and 5 weeks starting from the declaration of the state of emer...
The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a significant effect on our mental health. In this research, we aim to analyse gender-related differences in the psychological impact of the Covid-19 lockdown in Spain. A cross-sectional study was conducted through an online survey (n = 1041) with two measurements: at two and five weeks after the declaration of the...
An Implicit Association Test was developed to assess the mental illness stigma in people from the general population, mental health professionals, people with a diagnosis, and family members. No differences were found between groups. Implicit stigma was found throughout the sample, with lower scores in the younger age group.
Background:
Since 2009 Time to Change has included among its strategies a social marketing campaign to tackle the stigma surrounding mental health problems. At the start of its third phase (2016-2021) the target group of the campaign was kept as people aged between mid-twenties and mid-forties but changed to middle-low income groups and the conten...
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Internalized stigma (IS) is a key factor in the recovery, quality of life and functioning of people with severe mental illness (SMI), and effective intervention programs are needed to reduce IS in all its dimensions. The aim of this report was to design and evaluate the effectiveness of a new psychological intervention group program fo...
The emergence of the Implicit Association Test (IAT) has encouraged the study of the implicit stigma associated with mental illness in recent years, although further research is still needed in this area. A sample (n = 102) composed of psychology students and people from the general population completed explicit stigma tests: Attribution Questionna...
Today, cognitive dysfunction is accepted as a feature of schizophrenia. As the patients age, this dysfunction is higher and harder to evaluate due to the interaction among aging, other somatic diseases, psychoactive drugs, etc.
The purpose of this study is to find out which tests from the Wechsler Intelligence Scale define the most detailed cognitive model that is able to predict the relevant cognitive impairment in elderly people with schizophrenia. A group of 30 institutionalised women who were diagnosed with schizophrenia were assessed with MEC-35; they had been previo...
Objective:
To longitudinally analyze the course of cognitive dimensions in schizophrenic women over a period of 31 years.
Method:
Accidental sampling. Developmental longitudinal design. Diagnosis according to the ICD-10. Thirty institutionalized women were evaluated using the WAIS on three separate occasions (in 1981, 1997, and 2012). The data w...
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The pandemic caused by the Covid-19 has been an unprecedented social and health emergency worldwide. Through this study we intend to understand the psychological impact of the crisis, loneliness and intersectional discrimination and quarantine situation during the first two weeks, 1 month and 2 months of quarantine in a sample of the Spanish population. Method: a cross-sectional and longitudinal study was conducted through an online survey of 3480 people. The presence of depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder (PSTS) was evaluated by screening tests from March 14. Sociodemographic and Covid-19-related data were collected, and spiritual well-being, loneliness, social support, discrimination and sense of belonging were assessed. Descriptive analyses and linear regression models were carried out. Based on the results found, guidelines and infographics have been written with recommendations to mitigate the psychological impact, loneliness and discrimination during the pandemic and the confinement of the population. These materials are available in Spanish at https://www.contraelestigma.com/covid-19/
