@article{ref1,
title="Levels and predictors of depression, anxiety, and suicidal risk during COVID-19  pandemic in Argentina: the impacts of quarantine extensions on mental health state",
journal="Psychology, health and medicine",
year="2020",
author="López Steinmetz, Lorena Cecilia and Dutto Florio, María Agustina and Leyes, Candela Abigail and Fong, Shao Bing and Rigalli, Alfredo and Godoy, Juan Carlos",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="This research is aimed to: analyze differences in mental health state (MHS)  indicators (depression, state-anxiety, trait-anxiety, and suicidal risk), during  three quarantine sub-periods (starting since the first quarantine extension); assess  multiple relationships between each MHS indicator and potentially affecting factors. We used a cross-sectional design with a convenience sample including 1100  participants. Data were collected online. Depression revealed a worsening pattern as  quarantine sub-periods went by. Anxiety (both state and trait), just like suicidal  risk, partially follow such a pattern, with mean scores increasing from the first to  the second/third quarantine extensions, but then maintaining to the fourth  extension. Predictors having protective effects on almost all the MHS indicators  were: availability of current economic income (except for state-anxiety, without  significant effect) and absence of suicide attempt history. Conversely, sex (woman),  younger age, and mental disorder history had an increasing risk effect on all the  MHS indicators. Overall, our findings indicate that quarantine have negative mental  health impacts and that quarantine duration is a relevant aspect to be taken into  account when measuring such an impact. More attention needs to be paid to vulnerable  groups such as the young, women, and people with history of mental disorder.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1354-8506",
doi="10.1080/13548506.2020.1867318",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13548506.2020.1867318"
}