Shevlin, M., Nolan, E., Owczarek, M. et al. (12 more authors) (2020) COVID‐19‐related anxiety predicts somatic symptoms in the UK population. British Journal of Health Psychology, 25 (4). pp. 875-882. ISSN 1359-107X
Abstract
This study aimed to estimate the association between anxiety associated with COVID‐19 and somatic symptoms, using data from a large, representative sample (N = 2,025) of the UK adult population. Results showed that moderate to high levels of anxiety associated with COVID‐19 were significantly associated with general somatic symptoms and in particular with gastrointestinal and fatigue symptoms. This pattern of associations remained significant after controlling for generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), pre‐existing health problems, age, gender, and income. This is the first evidence that anxiety associated with COVID‐19 makes a unique contribution to somatization, above and beyond the effect of GAD.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 The Authors. British Journal of Health Psychology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Psychological Society. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | COVID‐19 pandemic; somatic symptoms; COVID‐19 related anxiety |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > Department of Psychology (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 02 Jul 2020 12:14 |
Last Modified: | 21 Oct 2021 18:32 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/bjhp.12430 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:162767 |