Forced social isolation and mental health: a study on 1,006 Italians under COVID-19 lockdown

L Pancani, M Marinucci, N Aureli, P Riva - Frontiers in psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Most countries have been struggling with the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic imposing
social isolation on their citizens. However, this measure carried risks for people's mental …

Knowledge and acceptance of COVID-19 vaccination among undergraduate students from central and southern Italy

F Gallè, EA Sabella, P Roma, O De Giglio, G Caggiano… - Vaccines, 2021 - mdpi.com
At the end of 2020, the Italian Ministry of Health launched a national vaccination campaign
to counteract the COVID-19 pandemic. The present study aimed at appraising levels of …

The effects of the fear of missing out on people's social networking sites use during the COVID-19 pandemic: the mediating role of online relational closeness and …

F Gioia, G Fioravanti, S Casale, V Boursier - Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Forced isolation induced by COVID-19 pandemic dramatically impacted individuals' well-
being, reducing the opportunities for social encounters, consequently resulting in a greater …

Immediate psychological responses during the initial period of the COVID-19 pandemic among Bangladeshi medical students

F Safa, A Anjum, S Hossain, TI Trisa, SF Alam… - Children and Youth …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background The most recent global pandemic of COVID-19 has been creating
multidimensional damages, including a detrimental impact on the mental health status of …

Impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic lockdown on weight status and factors associated with weight gain among adults in Massachusetts

W Mulugeta, H Desalegn, S Solomon - Clinical obesity, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The study aims to examine the impact of the coronavirus disease‐2019 (COVID‐19)
pandemic lockdown on weight, overweight and obesity, and identify factors associated with …

A cross-country examination on the fear of COVID-19 and the sense of loneliness during the first wave of COVID-19 outbreak

G Lo Coco, A Gentile, K Bosnar, I Milovanović… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The aim of the current study is to examine gender, age. and cross-country differences in fear
of COVID-19 and sense of loneliness during the lockdown, by comparing people from those …

Weight gain in a sample of patients affected by overweight/obesity with and without a psychiatric diagnosis during the covid-19 lockdown

S Marchitelli, C Mazza, A Lenzi, E Ricci, L Gnessi… - Nutrients, 2020 - mdpi.com
The present study aimed at identifying psychological and psychosocial variables that might
predict weight gain during the COVID-19 lockdown in patients affected by …

[HTML][HTML] A systematic review of the nutritional status of adults experiencing homelessness

C Huang, H Foster, V Paudyal, M Ward, R Lowrie - Public health, 2022 - Elsevier
Objectives To identify, appraise, and describe studies focussing on the nutritional
characteristics of people experiencing homelessness (PEH). Study design Systematic …

The relationship between anxiety levels, sleep, and physical activity during COVID-19 lockdown: An exploratory study

R Frontini, R Rebelo-Gonçalves, N Amaro… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Nowadays and worldwide, the attention is focused on coronavirus disease (COVID-19), and
its consequences on mental health are yet to be fully understood. It is important to capture …

Relationship between self-care activities, stress and well-being during COVID-19 lockdown: A cross-cultural mediation model

E Luis, E Bermejo-Martins, M Martinez… - BMJ open, 2021 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives To examine the mediation role of self-care between stress and psychological well-
being in the general population of four countries and to assess the impact of …