在COVID-19期间,什么会加剧和缓解中国农村居民的抑郁症?
Ruotong Li1,2, Qiran Zhao1,2, Yi Cui1
1College of Economics and Management, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100083, China.
Heliyon
|August 22, 2024
概括
由于孤立和感染恐惧,COVID-19大流行增加了中国农村的抑郁症. 良好的健康,社会联系和COVID-19知识有助于缓解这些心理健康影响.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 流行病学 流行病学
- 心理健康研究 心理健康研究
背景情况:
- 全球范围内,COVID-19大流行导致精神健康障碍的增加.
- 中国严格的抗疫措施加剧了心理负担,尤其影响农村人口.
- 对于COVID-19对中国农村居民的具体心理影响的了解有限.
研究的目的:
- 在COVID-19大流行期间调查影响中国农村居民抑郁症的因素.
- 分析个人,社会和流行病相关变量对心理健康的影响.
- 确定能够减轻大流行病负面心理影响的调节者.
主要方法:
- 利用了来自152个村庄和676名农村居民的两年平衡面板数据集 (2019-2020年).
- 采用普通最小平方 (OLS) 模型来估计各种因素对抑郁症的影响.
- 进行比较的系数,以检查疫情前和疫情期间抑郁水平的变化.
主要成果:
- 孤立和对COVID-19感染的担忧显著增加了抑郁症.
- 积极的健康状况和更多的朋友与抑郁症的减少有关.
- 健康状况,家庭网络规模和COVID-19知识减轻了感染担忧对抑郁症的影响.
结论:
- 在大流行期间确定了农村人口抑郁症的关键驱动因素,包括隔离和感染恐惧.
- 突出了诸如健康状况良好,社会支持和对病毒传播知识等保护因素.
- 提供了在公共卫生危机期间支持农村心理健康的有针对性的干预措施的证据.
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