Claudia Carmassi, Sarah Tosato, Virginia Pedrinelli, Carlo A Bertelloni, Giovanni Abbate-Daga, Umberto Albert, Giovanni Castellini, Mario Luciano, Marco Menchetti, Maurizio Pompili, Gaia Sampogna, Maria Signorelli, Gabriele Massimetti, Andrea Fiorillo
The aim of this study was to prospectively assess the development and trajectories of anxiety and depressive symptoms among subjects with different mental disorders, during the 3rd wave of the COVID-19 pandemic (T0, March-April 2021) while strict containment measures were applied in Italy, and after 3 months (T1, June-July 2021), with reduced restrictive measures. A sample of 527 subjects, with different DSM-5 diagnoses, was enrolled at nine Italian psychiatric outpatient services. Assessments at T0 and T1 included the Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-Item (GAD-7) for anxiety symptoms, and the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) for depressive symptoms...
December 23, 2023: Psychiatry Research