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Omranifard V, Ghassemi Toudeshkchuie G, Nikfarjam N, Gharavinia A. Anxiety and Depressive Symptomatology among Iranian Patients Hospitalized for COVID-19 in January 2020. PCNM 2023; 13 (1) :59-71
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Anxiety and Depressive Symptomatology among Iranian Patients Hospitalized for COVID-19 in January 2020
Victoria Omranifard , Gholamreza Ghassemi Toudeshkchuie * , Niloofar Nikfarjam , Ali Gharavinia
Ph D Social Work, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Medical Education Research Centre, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran , ghr.ghassemi@gmail.com
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Background: Widespread outbreaks of Coronavirus disease among Iranian people are not only associated with physical illness but also with psychological symptoms which need special attention.
Objectives: This study was an endeavor to examine the relationship between comorbidity and death anxiety with Anxiety and Depressive Symptomatology among those survived after the COVID-19 pandemic in Iran.
Methods: This was a cross-sectional study in which the probands o survivors of COVID-19 participated. By means of convenient smpling method and adhering to selection criteria we chose 300 patients admitted for COVID-19 in a university affiliated hospital in Isfahan-Iran during the January 2020. We collected the data pertaining to their illness history, including information about their comorbidity and demographic background by means of an interview schedule with closed-ended questions. We used the Persian version of Templer's Death Anxiety Scale (TDAS) and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). Data were computer analyzed using SPSS-19 and running Hierarchical Log-linear analysis symptomatology in a saturated model.
Results: Majority of the participants were female (64%) with the mean (SD) age of 44.8 (12.8) years. Positive comorbidity was accompanied by a higher chance of exhibiting depressive symptoms (OR=34.67, df =1, P=0.000). High death anxiety was accompanied by higher chances of anxiety-depressive symptoms (OR=90.13, df =1, P=0.00).
Conclusion: These observations reinforce the hypothesis proposed on the basis of Hill’s (1958) ABC-X model and provided impetus to idea that how absence of comorbidity and positive perception of illness condition protect individuals from psychological hazards of COVID-19.
 
Keywords: COVID-19, death anxiety, anxiety, depression, Iran
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Received: 2021/11/11 | Accepted: 2023/03/1 | Published: 2023/03/1
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