Open AccessRates and Correlates of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Symptoms During the Immediate Onset of COVID-19 Pandemic in a Sample of Patients from an Outpatient Psychiatric Clinic in Turkey
Author(s) -
Yusuf Özay Özdemir
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
i̇stanbul kuzey klinikleri
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2148-4902
DOI - 10.14744/nci.2022.89983
Subject(s) - anxiety , depression (economics) , psychiatry , outpatient clinic , traumatic stress , medicine , acute stress disorder , covid-19 , clinical psychology , beck depression inventory , beck hopelessness scale , psychology , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , economics , macroeconomics
This study was designed to investigate the traumatic stress levels, participants demonstrating higher than post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) cutoff, thus PTSD possibility, levels, and related factors of patients who felt the need to apply to the outpatient clinic for the 1st time during the first period of the outbreak of the pandemic as a traumatic event, when many psychiatry outpatient clinics were mostly closed to face-to-face admissions. In our research, we targeted three objectives. First, we evaluated PTSD as indicated with measure cutoff points and post-traumatic stress symptom (PTSS) rates among the individuals who were admitted to an outpatient psychiatric clinic for the 1st time, 3 months after the first COVID-19 case was reported in Turkiye. Second, we investigated the relationship between PTSS and PTSD cutoff with anxiety, stress, depression, hopelessness, fear of COVID-19, and disability levels. Third, we aimed to explore the sociodemographic data and risk factors related to PTSD cutoff and PTSS controlling levels of disability, hopelessness, fear of COVID-19, anxiety, depression, and stress.