Coronaphobia: Fear and the 2019-nCoV outbreak
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Excessive worry about one's health can lead to inappropriate healthcare seeking behaviour that may, in turn, add further pressure to the already burdened healthcare system.
“For example, excessive worry about one's health can lead to inappropriate healthcare seeking behaviour that may, in turn, add further pressure to the already burdened healthcare system [4,5].”
From Brief Online Cognitive Behavioural Intervention for Dysfunctional Worry Related to the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Randomised Controlled Trial (2021) · cites this paper as [4]
Heightened intolerance of uncertainty could increase COVID-related fear.
“Asmundson and Taylor (2020) logically suggested that heightened intolerance of uncertainty could increase COVID-related fear.”
From A Toolbox for Use During the Post-Pandemic Era: Preparing Youth for Re-entry (2024) · cites this paper as Asmundson and Taylor (2020)
Intolerance of uncertainty is associated with stress, distress, insomnia, psychosomatic symptoms, and other clinical conditions in studies on COVID-19 among the general population and HCWs.
“It can be considered as a sub-trait of anxiety [44] (that is, in its turn, a facet of neuroticism), which has often been found in association with stress, distress, insomnia, psychosomatic symptoms, and other clinical conditions in several recent studies carried out on COVID-19 among the general population and HCWs (e.g., [45,51,52,53,54,55,56]).”
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- Authors
- Asmundson, G. J. G., & Taylor, S.
- Affiliations
- University of Regina (CA)
- University of British Columbia (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Asmundson, Gordon J.G.
- Taylor, Steven
- Venue
- Journal of Anxiety Disorders
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2020-03
- Volume
- 70
- Pages
- 102196
- ISSN
- 0887-6185 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC7134790
- OpenAlex
- W3005195331
- Semantic Scholar
- 80e1698e85354c1f6c10d79eed5b358ce869fdde
- Cited by
- 1,103
- References
- 4
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- 2026: 23 · 2025: 35 · 2024: 60 · 2023: 169 · 2022: 239 · 2021: 363 · 2020: 212 · 2018: 1
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Journal of Anxiety Disorders (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Social Sciences › Communication › Communication and COVID-19 Impact
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Keywords
- fear of COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, fear, anxiety, pandemic, outbreak, fear of contagion
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