多次灾难暴露后心理痛苦的年龄差异:多维负面COVID-19影响的效果
1Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
Disaster medicine and public health preparedness
|December 4, 2023
概括
灾难后,老年人经历的痛苦较少,但严重的COVID-19影响在65岁以上的人中增加了痛苦,比年轻人群更多. 量身定制的心理健康支持对于多重灾难恢复至关重要.
科学领域:
- 灾难心理健康研究研究
- 流行病的心理影响 流行病的心理影响
- 老年学和公共卫生.
背景情况:
- 随着COVID-19的流行,以及像龙卷风这样的自然灾害,也会造成严重的心理痛苦.
- 应对灾难和从灾难中恢复的年龄相关差异尚未完全理解.
- 流行病的多维影响可能会加剧弱势群体的痛苦.
研究的目的:
- 调查新冠肺炎疾病 (COVID-19) 的负面影响如何影响心理痛苦中的年龄差异.
- 为了检查风和COVID-19流行病暴露后的危险水平.
- 为了确定COVID-19影响的模式及其与年龄和心理痛苦的关系.
主要方法:
- 在2020年10月至2022年8月期间进行了一项两波面板研究 (N=1134在T1,N=554在T2).
- 潜在类分析确定了COVID-19负面影响的模式.
- 负二项式回归分析了心理困扰的年龄差异,控制了基线困扰和类成员资格.
主要成果:
- 确定了三类COVID-19影响:低,中等 (高情绪困扰) 和严重.
- 65岁以上的个人报告说,与年轻的成年人 (18-49岁) 相比,他们的整体心理压力较低.
- 然而,中度或重度COVID-19影响的老年人 (65岁以上) 患有最大的痛苦增加.
结论:
- 心理健康干预必须解决多重灾难的情况.
- 干预措施应适应长期灾难恢复的特定年龄需求.
- 了解流行病影响,灾害和年龄的相互作用对于有效的支持至关重要.
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