COVID-19 infection among family and friends: The psychological impact on non-infected persons

J Khubchandani, S Sharma, FJ Webb, MJ Wiblishauser… - Brain Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Little is known about the mental health impact of having a family member or friend infected
with COVID-19. Thus, the purpose of this study was to conduct a comprehensive national …

The Extent and Impact of COVID-19 Infection among Family and Friends: A Scoping Review

M Wiblishauser, T Chapa, KO Ellis - BioMed, 2023 - mdpi.com
There exist a plethora of studies examining the psychological and physical impacts of
COVID-19 on infected victims. Fewer studies have been published assessing the different …

Associations between social COVID-19 exposure and psychological functioning

M Lewicka, JG Hamilton, EA Waters, H Orom… - Journal of Behavioral …, 2023 - Springer
The negative consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health have been widely
reported, but less is known about how the impact of COVID-19 on others in one's social …

COVID-19: the perfect vector for a mental health epidemic

IN Hisham, G Townsend, S Gillard, B Debnath… - BJPsych bulletin, 2021 - cambridge.org
In times of crisis, people have historically had to band together to overcome. What happens
when they cannot? This article examines the reality of people forced to isolate from one …

Left alone outside: A prospective observational cohort study on mental health outcomes among relatives of COVID-19 hospitalized patients

N Hertz-Palmor, D Gothelf, N Matalon, S Dorman-Ilan… - Psychiatry …, 2022 - Elsevier
Hospitalization due to COVID-19 bears many psychological challenges. While focusing on
infected patients, their relatives are being largely neglected. Here, we investigated the …

[HTML][HTML] Hitting close to home: the effect of COVID-19 illness in the social environment on psychological burden in older adults

L Richter, T Heidinger - Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
This study examines the impact of COVID-19 experience of infection in the individual's social
environment on psychological burden controlling for a broad range of factors using data on …

Understanding the mental health impact of the COVID-19 pandemic among individuals with chronic illness

KJ Bhatt, T Schulder, S Rudenstine… - Psychological …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
People with chronic illnesses are vulnerable to stress and psychopathology during
population-level disasters, as a subset of individuals with disabilities. We aimed to examine …

Psychosocial effects of the COVID-19 pandemic

J Dymecka - Neuropsychiatria i Neuropsychologia/Neuropsychiatry …, 2021 - termedia.pl
The COVID-19 outbreak is a serious threat to public health, both physical and mental. Over
80 million people worldwide have already been infected, including almost 2 million deaths …

The psychological consequences of COVID-19 fear and the moderator effects of individuals' underlying illness and witnessing infected friends and family

O Koçak, ÖE Koçak, MZ Younis - International journal of environmental …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The COVID-19 virus has become a fearful epidemic for people all over the world. In Turkey,
long quarantine periods and curfews have increased both physical and psychological …

Psychosocial distress among family members of COVID-19 patients admitted to hospital and isolation facilities in the Philippines: A prospective cohort study

L Apostol-Nicodemus, IKB Tabios… - Journal of clinical …, 2022 - mdpi.com
This study determined the psychosocial impact of COVID-19 on families of adult COVID-19
patients in isolation facilities in Metro Manila, Philippines. This prospective cohort study was …