The association of being in quarantine and related COVID-19 recommended and non-recommended behaviors with psychological distress in Chinese population

J Affect Disord. 2020 Oct 1:275:66-68. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2020.06.026. Epub 2020 Jul 2.

Authors

Menachem Ben-Ezra¹, Shaojing Sun², Wai Kai Hou³, Robin Goodwin⁴

Affiliations

¹ School of Social Work, Ariel University, Ariel, Israel. Electronic address: menbe@ariel.ac.il.
² Department of Communication, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
³ Department of Psychology, Centre for Psychosocial Health, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
⁴ Department of Psychology, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom.

Abstract

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The world health organization (WHO) guidelines needs to be empirically examined.
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The study sought to look at the recommended and non-recommended behaviors.
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The results of the study show that psychological distress was negatively associated with recommended behaviors and positively with non-recommended behaviors.

Publication types

Letter