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- Title
Factors Related to Psychological Distress during the First Stage of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Chilean Population.
- Authors
Ruiz-Frutos, Carlos; Delgado-García, Diemen; Ortega-Moreno, Mónica; Duclos-Bastías, Daniel; Escobar-Gómez, Dánica; García-Iglesias, Juan Jesús; Gómez-Salgado, Juan
- Abstract
The health effects of COVID-19 continue to raise doubts today. In some areas, such as mental health, these doubts have scarcely been addressed. The present study analyses the effects on psychological distress during the first phase of the pandemic in Chile. A cross-sectional descriptive study was performed by using a questionnaire validated in Spain and adapted for Chile. Between 22 April and 16 December 2020, 3227 questionnaires were collected from the 16 regions of Chile, using non-probabilistic snowball sampling. Bivariate analysis and binary logistic regression were performed. The variables that could predict psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic in Chile were: having a poor self-perception of health OR = 4.038, 95% CI = (2.831, 5.758); being younger than 29 OR = 2.287, 95% CI = (1.893, 2.762); having diarrhea OR = 2.093, 95% CI = (1.414, 3.098); having headache OR = 2.019, 95% CI = (1.662, 2.453); being a woman OR = 1.638, 95% CI = (1.363, 1.967); having muscle pain OR = 1.439, 95% CI = (1.114, 1.859); and having had casual contact with an infected person OR = 1.410, 95% CI = (1.138, 1.747). In Chile, with a better social, economic, cultural, and health environment compared to neighboring countries, there has been a high percentage of psychological distress. It is time to prioritize measures to safeguard the mental health of Chileans, especially focused on the most vulnerable population according to our results, i.e., young women with poorer health status.
- Subjects
CHILE; COVID-19 pandemic; PSYCHOLOGICAL distress; PSYCHOLOGICAL factors; BIVARIATE analysis; COVID-19
- Publication
Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2021, Vol 10, Issue 21, p5137
- ISSN
2077-0383
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/jcm10215137