General Psychiatry

The researchers tested whether the COVID-19 pandemic has altered beliefs about the extent to which poverty is caused by external forces and internal dispositions and support for economic inequality.

With global measures to prevent infection implemented to combat COVID-19, experts assume that the pandemic is affecting people with obsessive-compulsive disorder, especially those with washing compulsions.

In older adults coming to the emergency department with COVID-19, delirium was common and often presented without other typical symptoms or signs.

Study authors examined the impact of substance use disorder on the risk of hospitalization, complications, and mortality among adult patients diagnosed with COVID-19.

Investigating the effects of the COVID -19 pandemic on sleep quality across different levels of pre-pandemic sleep complaints and as a function of affect and worry.

While the global pandemic is obviously stressful for everyone, the impact of factors related to the family unit and other protective psychosocial factors that could produce resilient or psychopathological results in college students has not been sufficiently assessed nor differentiated by gender.

Researchers found in an observational cohort study that pre-existing Alzheimer disease and dementia are top risk factors for severe COVID-19 based on their association with positive tests for the coronavirus in England’s hospitals in spring 2020.

Right now, the wellbeing among high-risk groups during the COVID-19 pandemic is an immediate research priority.

Researchers conducted 3 studies involving a series of questionnaires to determine whether there was a connection between psychological entitlement and following or not following COVID-19 guidelines.