Prior Depression Predicts Greater Stress during COVID-19 Mandatory Lockdown among College Students in France
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BACKGROUND: The Covid-19 pandemic and its related public health measures such as mandatory lockdowns have been shown to have an impact on mental health. A key question is the role of pre-existing psychiatric disorders in how such measures are experienced. METHODS: During the first country-wide lockdown imposed in France, a Covid-19 module was added to the French portion of the ongoing World Mental Health International college student survey. The present study focuses on respondents who completed the survey during that time frame (n = 291). RESULTS: Students with prior depression endorsed greater increases in anxiety (72.2% vs 50.9%) and stress (72.2% vs 49.4%), as well as greater decreases in concentration (87.0% vs 72.9%) during lockdown as compared to those without depression history. In multivariate analyses, prior depression was associated with overall stress (AOR = 5.50), financial stress (AOR = 1.95), family stress (AOR = 2.47), work related stress (AOR = 5.15), and stress related to loved ones (AOR = 2.21). Prior depression was also associated with greater probability experiencing increased anxiety (AOR = 2.61) and stress (AOR = 2.55) during lockdown. CONCLUSIONS: The findings indicate that the best predictor of experiencing stress and anxiety during the first Covid-19 lockdown was a history of depression prior to the pandemic outbreak. Implementing public health measures such as mandatory national lockdowns should be accompanied by strategies for reaching out to those who are vulnerable due to a history of mental illness.
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Prior depression, anxiety, and somatic symptoms influenced the perceived negativity of subsequent stressors.
“Literature indicated that prior depression, anxiety, and somatic symptoms influenced the perceived negativity of subsequent stressors [25]”
From The Role of Pre-Pandemic Mental Health Status and Personality Traits on Psychological Distress during the COVID-19 Lockdown among Italian Young Adults (2023) · cites this paper as [25]
The Introduction (section 1; page unavailable) says prior depression may influence the perceived negativity of subsequent stressors. The multivariate results (section 3.3; page unavailable) associate prior depression with several categories of perceived stress, but prior anxiety only with overall stress. The paper does not report a corresponding finding for somatic symptoms, and these associations do not establish that the symptoms caused the perceptions. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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- Authors
- Husky, M. M., Kovess-Masfety, V., Gobin-Bourdet, C., & Swendsen, J.
- Affiliations
- Université de Bordeaux (FR)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Corresponding author
- Husky, Mathilde M.
- Venue
- Comprehensive Psychiatry
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2021-05
- Volume
- 107
- Pages
- 152234
- ISSN
- 0010-440X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3134682552
- Cited by
- 34
- References
- 41
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 4
- FWCI
- 5.30
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
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- Locations
- Comprehensive Psychiatry (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
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- Oskar-Bordeaux (Universite de Bordeaux) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Funders
- Agence nationale de la recherche
- Institut Universitaire de France (ANR-17-36-0013CE-01)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Student Stress and Coping
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Keywords
- COVID-19 lockdown, university students, stress, anxiety, financial stress, family stress, occupational stress, concentration, mental health, public health measures, vulnerable populations
- MeSH terms
- COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, Anxiety, Communicable Disease Control, Depression, France, Humans, Students, Pandemics
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