Rogers Andrew H, Bogiaizian Daniel, Salazar Patricio López, Solari Adrian, Garey Lorra, Fogle Brienna M, Schmidt Norman B, Zvolensky Michael J
Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TX USA.
Department of Psychology, Universidad Argentina de la Empresa, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Cognit Ther Res. 2021;45(4):697-707. doi: 10.1007/s10608-020-10194-1. Epub 2021 Jan 3.
The novel 2019 SARS2-Coronavirus (COVID-19) has had a devastating physical health, mental health, and economic impact, causing millions of infections and hundreds of thousands of deaths. While COVID-19 has impacted the entire world, COVID-19 has disproportionately impacted low-income countries, particularly in South America, causing not only increased mortality but also increased associated mental health complaints. Anxiety sensitivity (AS), reflecting fear of anxiety-related physical sensations, may be particularly important to understand COVID-19 mental health effects among Latinx individuals in South America (Argentina). Past work suggests that Latinx individuals report greater somatization of mental health symptoms, and AS has been specifically linked to greater mental health symptoms. Yet, to date, no work has examined AS as a vulnerability factor for the negative mental health effects of COVID-19.
Therefore, the current manuscript examined the association of AS with COVID-19 worry, functional impairment, anxiety, and symptom severity across two samples of adults in Argentina: a community sample ( = 105, = 38.58, = 14.07, 69.5% female) and a clinical sample comprised of individuals with an anxiety disorder ( 99, = 34.99, = 10.83, 66.7% female).
Results from the current study provide support for AS as a potential vulnerability factor for COVID-19-related mental health problems across both samples, and these effects were evident over and above the variance accounted for by age, sex, pre-existing medical conditions, and COVID-19 exposure.
These data identify AS as a potential intervention target to reduce COVID-19 mental health burden among adults in Argentina.
新型2019严重急性呼吸综合征冠状病毒2（COVID-19）对身体健康、心理健康和经济产生了毁灭性影响，导致数百万例感染和数十万人死亡。虽然COVID-19影响了整个世界，但它对低收入国家的影响尤为严重，特别是在南美洲，不仅导致死亡率上升，还导致相关心理健康问题投诉增加。焦虑敏感性（AS）反映了对与焦虑相关的身体感觉的恐惧，对于理解南美洲（阿根廷）拉丁裔个体中COVID-19对心理健康的影响可能尤为重要。过去的研究表明，拉丁裔个体报告的心理健康症状躯体化程度更高，并且AS与更严重的心理健康症状有特定关联。然而，迄今为止，尚无研究将AS作为COVID-19负面心理健康影响的一个易感性因素进行考察。
因此，本论文研究了阿根廷两个成人样本中AS与COVID-19担忧、功能损害、焦虑和症状严重程度之间的关联：一个社区样本（n = 105，M = 38.58，SD = 14.07，69.5%为女性）和一个由焦虑症患者组成的临床样本（n = 99，M = 34.99，SD = 10.83，66.7%为女性）。
本研究结果支持AS作为两个样本中与COVID-19相关心理健康问题的一个潜在易感性因素，并且这些影响在年龄、性别、既往病史和COVID-19暴露所解释的方差之外仍然显著。
这些数据确定AS为减轻阿根廷成年人中COVID-19心理健康负担的一个潜在干预靶点。
