1. Determinants of quality of life among individuals seeking mental health care after termination of state of emergency due to the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic
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Goran Knezevic, Čedo Miljević, Tijana Vranes, Biljana Lukic, Milica Vezmar, Ana Podgorac, Aleksandra Parojcic, Vanja Mandic-Maravic, Nadja P. Maric, Olivera Vuković, Bojana Pejuskovic, Ana Munjiza, Milica Pejovic-Milovancevic, Maja Milosavljevic, Milutin Kostić, and Olga Čolović
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Adult ,Male ,Mental Health Services ,Adolescent ,Cross-sectional study ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Population ,Observational Study ,03 medical and health sciences ,stress ,0302 clinical medicine ,Quality of life ,Emotionality ,Surveys and Questionnaires ,Medicine ,Personality ,Humans ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Big Five personality traits ,education ,media_common ,Aged ,education.field_of_study ,business.industry ,pandemic ,COVID-19 ,General Medicine ,Middle Aged ,Mental health ,Help-seeking ,humanities ,3. Good health ,030227 psychiatry ,Cross-Sectional Studies ,quality of life ,Social Isolation ,personality ,Quality of Life ,the coronavirus disease 2019 ,business ,mental health ,Clinical psychology ,Research Article - Abstract
Prompted by the need to measure the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 on main areas of quality of life related to mental health (MH), the COV-19-impact on quality of life (COV19-QoL) scale has been developed recently. We measured how patients seeking face-to-face MH care perceived the coronavirus disease 2019 impact on QoL and how socio-demographic factors, stress, and personality contributed to QoL in this diagnostically diverse population.Patients aged 18 to 65âyears (nâ=â251) who came for the first time to the outpatient units during the 6-week index-period (May 21-July 1, 2020) were included. The cross-sectional assessment involved sociodemographic variables, working diagnosis, personality traits (7-dimension model, including HEXACO and DELTA), stress (list of threatening experiences and proximity to virus), and COV19-QoL.The perceived impact of the pandemic on QoL was above the theoretical mean of a 5-point scale (COV19-Qolâ=â3.1â±â1.2). No association between total COV19-QoL score, sociodemographic parameters, and working diagnoses was found in the present sample. After testing whether positional (threatening experiences), or dispositional (personality) factors were predominant in the perceived impact of COV-19 on QoL, significant predictors of the outcome were personality traits Disintegration (Bâ=â0.52; Pâ
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- 2020