Transdiagnostic mechanisms of mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic on adults and families in Germany: study protocol of a cross-sectional and 1-year longitudinal study
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Background: Since the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic, psychological distress is increased. Transdiagnostic mechanisms, including trauma, personality functioning, mentalizing and emotion regulation are considered relevant to the development and maintenance of mental health problems and therefore may play a role in individuals’ reactions to the pandemic. Aim: To identify moderating and mediating factors associated with pandemic-related distress and mental health problems in adults and families, we aim to investigate the interactions of interpersonal trauma (childhood trauma and domestic violence), psychological capacities (personality functioning, mentalizing and emotion regulation) and pandemic-related adversity on psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, we aim to investigate behavioral and cognitive consequences of the pandemic (e.g., media consumption, vaccination status, conspiracy beliefs). Methods: Using an online-based cross-sectional and longitudinal design, we will investigate a sample of adult participants recruited via online platforms in German-speaking countries over the course of 1 year with four measurements points via self-report instruments (personality functioning: PID5BF +; mentalizing: MentS, PRFQ; emotion regulation: DERS-SF; mental health problems: PHQ-9, GAD-7; a composite pandemic-related stress score). Structural equation and multi-level modeling will be performed for data analyses. Implications: This study will provide data on the moderating and mediating effects of trauma, personality functioning and mentalizing during the pandemic in a large community sample, particularly on vulnerable groups like families. Identifying transdiagnostic mechanisms of psychopathology in the course of a pandemic crisis may provide valuable insight for the development of pre- and intervention measures for potential psychological distress during and post the pandemic.
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Training in emotion regulation skills may result in the improvement of clinical symptomatology (anxiety and depressive symptoms) in patients with long COVID.
“thus it could be reasonable to think that training in emotion regulation skills (i.e., practicing emotion awareness, cognitive flexibility, emotion driven behaviors and expositions) may result in the improvement of clinical symptomatology (i.e., anxiety and depressive symptoms) in that patients.”
From Unified Protocol for the transdiagnostic treatment of emotional disorders in people with post COVID-19 condition: study protocol for a multiple baseline n-of-1 trial (2023) · cites this paper as Volkert et al., 2021
The Introduction links emotion regulation to mental health and reports an association between emotional dysregulation, distress, and depressive mood after COVID-19 infection. It does not address emotion-regulation training, whether training improves anxiety or depression, or patients with long COVID. No page number is available in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.84)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredEmotion regulation could act as a transdiagnostic mechanism for mental health in the context of COVID-19.
“Also importantly, it has been proposed that emotion regulation could act as a transdiagnostic mechanism for mental health in the context of COVID-19 (Volkert et al., 2021)”
From Unified Protocol for the transdiagnostic treatment of emotional disorders in people with post COVID-19 condition: study protocol for a multiple baseline n-of-1 trial (2023) · cites this paper as Volkert et al., 2021
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- Authors
- Volkert, J., Taubner, S., Berning, A., Kling, L., Wießner, H., Georg, A. K., & Holl, J.
- Affiliations
- Heidelberg University (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Volkert, Jana
- Venue
- Frontiers in Psychology
- Publisher
- Frontiers Media SA
- Published
- 2021-12-22
- Volume
- 12
- Pages
- 720104-720104
- ISSN
- 1664-1078 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC8727441
- OpenAlex
- W4200298852
- Cited by
- 6
- References
- 87
- Citations by year
- 2024: 2 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 2
- FWCI
- 1.02
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
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- Locations
- Frontiers in Psychology (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Keywords
- COVID-19 pandemic, psychological distress, transdiagnostic mechanisms, mental illness, interpersonal trauma, childhood trauma, domestic violence, personality functioning, mentalization, emotion regulation, pandemic stress, family, conspiracy beliefs, media use, vaccination status
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