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Article Dans Une Revue Comprehensive Psychiatry Année : 2021

Prior depression predicts greater stress during Covid-19 mandatory lockdown among college students in France

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BACKGROUND: The Covid-19 pandemic and its related public health measures such as mandatory lockdowns have been shown to have an impact on mental health. A key question is the role of pre-existing psychiatric disorders in how such measures are experienced. METHODS: During the first country-wide lockdown imposed in France, a Covid-19 module was added to the French portion of the ongoing World Mental Health International college student survey. The present study focuses on respondents who completed the survey during that time frame (n = 291). RESULTS: Students with prior depression endorsed greater increases in anxiety (72.2% vs 50.9%) and stress (72.2% vs 49.4%), as well as greater decreases in concentration (87.0% vs 72.9%) during lockdown as compared to those without depression history. In multivariate analyses, prior depression was associated with overall stress (AOR = 5.50), financial stress (AOR = 1.95), family stress (AOR = 2.47), work related stress (AOR = 5.15), and stress related to loved ones (AOR = 2.21). Prior depression was also associated with greater probability experiencing increased anxiety (AOR = 2.61) and stress (AOR = 2.55) during lockdown. CONCLUSIONS: The findings indicate that the best predictor of experiencing stress and anxiety during the first Covid-19 lockdown was a history of depression prior to the pandemic outbreak. Implementing public health measures such as mandatory national lockdowns should be accompanied by strategies for reaching out to those who are vulnerable due to a history of mental illness.
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Mathilde M. Husky, Viviane Kovess-Masfety, Clara Gobin-Bourdet, Joel Swendsen. Prior depression predicts greater stress during Covid-19 mandatory lockdown among college students in France. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 2021, 107, pp.152234. ⟨10.1016/j.comppsych.2021.152234⟩. ⟨hal-03208649⟩
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