Article ; Online: Psychosocial resources and psychopathology among persons with neuromuscular disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic.
2024 Volume 12, Issue 1, Page(s) 243
Abstract: Background: The COVID-19 pandemic substantially affected the lives of persons with inherited neuromuscular disorders (INMD), causing disruption in clinical and support services. While several studies have investigated mental health, distress and ... ...
| Abstract | Background: The COVID-19 pandemic substantially affected the lives of persons with inherited neuromuscular disorders (INMD), causing disruption in clinical and support services. While several studies have investigated mental health, distress and psychosocial resources in the general population during the pandemic, little is known about the experience of persons with INMD. Methods: This study was aimed to fill this gap by jointly investigating both psychopathological symptoms and psychosocial resources - specifically, resilience and perceived social support - among persons with INMD during the pandemic, taking into account demographic and clinical factors. Between April and December 2020, 59 participants with INMD (aged 15-59, 71.2% M) completed a questionnaire collecting demographic and clinical data, the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support, the Resilience Scale for Adults, and the Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment. Results: Overall, participants showed good levels of resilience and perceived social support. A minority of participants reported clinically relevant psychopathological symptoms, 28.81% for anxiety and depression. Most psychopathological symptoms were negatively correlated with resilience (-0.347 < r < - .420), but not significantly associated with social support. Consistent with previous studies, regression analyses highlighted that participants with Duchenne muscular dystrophy were more prone to report anxious and depressive symptoms (B = 1.748, p = .028, OR = 5.744), and participants with myotonic dystrophy, attention problems (B = 2.339, p = .006, OR = 10.376). Resilience emerged as a potential predictor of lower anxious-depressive symptoms (B=-1.264, p = .012, OR = 0.283). Conclusions: The findings suggest the importance to investigate psychosocial resources in addition to psychopathology among persons with INMD, and to design interventions supporting resilience as a protective factor for mental health promotion. |
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| MeSH term(s) | Humans ; COVID-19/psychology ; COVID-19/epidemiology ; Adult ; Male ; Female ; Middle Aged ; Resilience, Psychological ; Neuromuscular Diseases/psychology ; Neuromuscular Diseases/epidemiology ; Social Support ; Adolescent ; Young Adult ; Anxiety/psychology ; Anxiety/epidemiology ; Depression/psychology ; Depression/epidemiology ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; SARS-CoV-2 |
| Language | English |
| Publishing date | 2024-04-29 |
| Publishing country | England |
| Document type | Journal Article |
| ZDB-ID | 2705921-2 |
| ISSN | 2050-7283 ; 2050-7283 |
| ISSN (online) | 2050-7283 |
| ISSN | 2050-7283 |
| DOI | 10.1186/s40359-024-01742-5 |
| Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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