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The Role of COVID-19 Pandemic Anxiety and Perceptions in COVID-19 Vaccination
- E. R. Semenova, J. Konyukhovskaya, S. Sviridova, E. Pervichko, O. Stepanova, O. Mitina, I. Shishkova
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- European Psychiatry / Volume 66 / Issue S1 / March 2023
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- 19 July 2023, p. S789
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Introduction
Since stress and anxiety are significant manifestations of psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic, we studied their role in making a decision about vaccination.
ObjectivesTo study the relationship between the intention to be vaccinated against COVID-19 with health anxiety and stress levels.
MethodsThe methodological complex includes the author’s socio-demographic questionnaire (Pervichko, 2020, 2021, 2022); the questionnaire “Scale of perceived stress-10” (Ababkov, 2016); the questionnaire “Perceptions of the COVID-19 pandemic” (Pervichko et al., 2020), developed on the basis of the Russian-language version of the E. Broadbent’s short questionnaire about the perception of disease (Broadbent, 2006); the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) (Spielberger, 2002) and the “Short Health Anxiety Inventory” (Pervichko et al., 2020).
The study involved 232 respondents who did not have COVID-19 (average age – 29.1 ± 13.7 years). Among the respondents, 68.5% have already been vaccinated, 23.3% do not plan to be vaccinated and 8.2% plan to perform the procedure.
ResultsThe methodological complex includes the author’s socio-demographic questionnaire (Pervichko, 2020, 2021, 2022); the questionnaire “Scale of perceived stress-10” (Ababkov, 2016); the questionnaire “Perceptions of the COVID-19 pandemic” (Pervichko et al., 2020), developed on the basis of the Russian-language version of the E. Broadbent’s short questionnaire about the perception of disease (Broadbent, 2006); the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) (Spielberger, 2002) and the “Short Health Anxiety Inventory” (Pervichko et al., 2020).
The study involved 232 respondents who did not have COVID-19 (average age – 29.1 ± 13.7 years). Among the respondents, 68.5% have already been vaccinated, 23.3% do not plan to be vaccinated and 8.2% plan to perform the procedure.
ConclusionsHigher health anxiety, situational anxiety, perceived stress, and greater perceived life threat due to coronavirus contribute to COVID-19 immunization procedures, which is accompanied by perceptions of greater control of the pandemic.
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Health Locus of Control and Health Anxiety in Patients with COVID-19
- E. R. Semenova, E. Deshchenko, E. Pervichko, J. Konyukhovskaya
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- European Psychiatry / Volume 66 / Issue S1 / March 2023
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- 19 July 2023, pp. S788-S789
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Perceived sense of control over one’s health contributes to determining health-related behaviors and an individual’s health status. Therefore, it may enhance vulnerability to health anxiety in response to COVID-19 and influence implementation of preventive strategies and adherence to them. Health anxiety may serve as one of the factors that increase the perception of COVID-19 as dangerous and life-threatening. We hypothesized that external health locus of control may demonstrate a connection with higher levels of health anxiety, whereas internal health locus of control may be considered a protective factor alongside some personality traits due to its role in determination of coping strategies.
ObjectivesTo assess health locus of control (HLC) in patients with COVID-19 and evaluate its connection with the levels of health anxiety.
MethodsThe study has involved 62 participants, average age is 23,4±8,2, with 36 of them being diagnosed with COVID-19 one or more times, average age is 24,5±8,9, whereas 26 of them were healthy, average age is 21,8±7,1. The following methods were used: Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire (modified for COVID-19), Perceived Stress Scale, the state scale from the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, Short Health Anxiety Inventory, Illness- and Treatment-Related Locus of Control Scale, HEXACO-24 Personality Inventory, Self-Government Test.
ResultsCOVID-19 patients differed from healthy participants by the following parameters: perceived danger of COVID-19 (31,53±9,51 vs 33,92±11,5; p>0,05); perceived stress (28±8,68 vs 26,5±7,3; p>0,05); state anxiety level (23,3±11,1 vs 25,1±12,5; p>0,05); health anxiety (14,3±6,76 vs 13,8±5,7; p>0,05); internal HLC (18,8±3,24 vs 17,8±4,67; p>0,05); external HLC (5,97±1,89 vs 5,81±1,92; p>0,05); extraversion (11,8±3,36 vs 13,10±3,71; p>0,05).
Correlation analysis has revealed mild positive correlations between health anxiety level and both external HLC (0,32; p<0,05) and chance HLC (0,25; p<0,05), mild negative correlation between health anxiety and internal HLC (-0,18; p>0,05). Analysis of COVID-19 related variables found that health anxiety levels were positively correlated with perceived danger of coronavirus disease (0,37; p<0,01), perceived stress (0,59; p<0,001) in the whole sample. Negative correlation was observed between extraversion and health anxiety (-0,49; p<0,05) in the group of COVID-19 patients.
ConclusionsThe results obtained in our study demonstrate the connection of the higher levels of health anxiety in COVID-19 patients with more external orientation of HLC. The connection between extraversion and health anxiety is also observed. Our study indicates that participants diagnosed with COVID-19 one or more times tend to have higher health anxiety levels in comparison to healthy participants.
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Dynamic of Covid-19 representations: time, cultural and social factors
- E. R. Semenova, O. Mitina, E. Pervichko, J. Konyukhovskaya, O. Stepanova
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- European Psychiatry / Volume 66 / Issue S1 / March 2023
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- 19 July 2023, pp. S213-S214
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We have already noted in our studies (Pervichko et. al., 2020, 2021) that collective representations about Covid-19 disease, based on its totality, the catholicity of its impact on all spheres of people’s lives, are socially and culturally conditioned: they have their own specifics in different countries, associated with many social, economic, political factors. Moreover, these perceptions change over time.
ObjectivesTo identify the differences in the Covid-19 representations in residents of different countries and at different stages of the pandemic.
MethodsModified questionnaire of the internal picture of the disease (Broadbent, 2006), consisting of 8 questions about COVID-19 pandemic. All the items were rated using a 0-to-10 response scale. 1-5 items assess cognitive illness representations. Items 6 and 8 assess emotional representations. Item 7 assesses illness comprehensibility.
ResultsTo test of the research hypothesis, we used the data accumulated on our platform since April 2020. We selected subsamples: Russian respondents who took the survey in April-May 2020 (1st wave) (1), June-September 2020 (decline) (2), October - December 2020 (3) (2nd wave), 1st half of 2021 (4). At the same time as sample 4, respondents from Azerbaijan (5) and Uzbekistan (6) were surveyed. Finally, there was another sample of Uzbekistan respondents surveyed in the 1st half of 2022 (7). Respondents of both sexes and different ages participated in each sample, with a total of 2908 people. The table 1 shows the sample means for all items in all samples.
In all seven samples, women are characterized by responses indicating their greater tension, stress, and psychological fatigue caused by life in a pandemic. In almost all samples, younger respondents demonstrate greater involvement in the disease and its experiences. Perhaps this is due to the fact that social restrictions affected young respondents to a greater extent.
It was shown that with each new wave, the indicators for the 2, 5, 8 grow, and 3, 4, 7 decreases. At the same time, since no one canceled the pandemic, this year, along with a decrease in indicators for all items corresponding to stress and anxiety, ideas about the possible duration of the pandemic are growing.
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ConclusionsWe can say that people have adapted to coexist with this disease and are ready for its continued presence in the world. The average indicators of Azerbaijani respondents indicate a more tense attitude towards the pandemic compared to Russia and Uzbekistan. It can be assumed that this is due to longer and more extensive state anti-epidemiological measures in Azerbaijan.
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TIME PERSPECTIVE OF THE PERSONALITY OF PATIENTS WHO HAD SEVERE AND MEDIUM COVID-19
- E. R. Semenova, E. Pervichko, A. Kulikova, I. Shishkova, J. Konyukhovskaya
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- European Psychiatry / Volume 66 / Issue S1 / March 2023
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- 19 July 2023, p. S789
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In connection with the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences, the question of how personal time constructs are modified becomes highly relevant. In particular, it is important to understand the specifics of the personality’s time perspective in patients who have undergone COVID-19 in varying degrees of severity.
ObjectivesTo study the time perspective of personality in patients who have undergone COVID-19 in medium and severe forms.
MethodsThe study was conducted from February to April 2022. The first group of the sample (the medium form with hospitalization) consisted of 52 respondents (46.2% - men, 53.8% - women, M age =31.2 years; S=6.7). The second group (severe form with hospitalization) consisted of 48 patients (60% - men and 40% - women, M age =33.0 years; S=7.8). We used: “The questionnaire of the time perspective of the personality of F. Zimbardo (Short version)”; (Zimbardo, Boyd, 1997; Syrtsova, 2008), the “Scale of Time experience” questionnaire (Golovakha, Kronik, 2008) and the descriptive analysis.
ResultsRespondents with a medium form of the disease have more developed hedonistic present (3.2±0.6), future (3.8±0.4) and positive past (3.7±0.6). The negative past (2.6±0.7) and fatalistic present (2.4±0.6) are the least represented in their lives. Respondents with a severe form have a more developed negative past (3.4±0.7), hedonistic present (3.4±0.4), future (3.7±0.5) and positive past (3.6±0.7). The fatalistic present is the least represented in their life (3.0±0.5). When analyzing the factors of time experiencing, it was revealed that respondents with a medium form perceive time as moderately continuous (3.4± 0.8), moderately tense (3.4± 0.8) due to pronounced emptiness and compactness, and also treat time on average not very positively (3.2± 1.0). Respondents with a severe form also perceive time as moderately continuous (3.4± 0.7), rather tense (4.1±1.1) due to pronounced saturation, compactness and rapidity, while they treat time on average moderately positively (2.5± 0.9).
ConclusionsThe time perspective in patients with medium form is characterized by planning and achieving future goals, and these respondents also show a fairly high degree of acceptance of their own past, in which any experience is an experience that contributes to development and led to today’s state. In respondents with a severe form, along with normative scores on the positive past scale, there is also an increase in negative perception of the past, which is reflected in an increased degree of rejection of their own past, causing disgust, full of pain and frustration, as well as a hedonistic, risky attitude to time and life, while an orientation towards pleasure, excitement, excitement, enjoyment in the present and lack of concern for future consequences or sacrifices in favor of future rewards. Assistance and help to such respondents should be in the focus of specialists of the relevant profile.
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SEVERITY OF ANXIETY AND SYMPTOMS OF DYSFUNCTIONAL BREATHING IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC RESPIRATORY DISEASES IN THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
- E. R. Semenova, E. Pervichko, D. Shulga, I. Shishkova
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- European Psychiatry / Volume 66 / Issue S1 / March 2023
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- 19 July 2023, p. S788
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The conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the risks associated with it, led to a deterioration in the emotional state of many people: during the pandemic, an increase in the frequency of anxiety disorders was noted, especially among patients with chronic diseases of the respiratory system. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the respiratory system has been described as very “vulnerable” to the coronavirus.
ObjectivesTo study the severity of anxiety and symptoms of dysfunctional breathing (DB) in patients with chronic respiratory diseases in the conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic.
MethodsWe used: «The Perceived Stress Scale-10», «State-Trait Anxiety Inventory», «Short Health Anxiety Inventory», and Nijmegen questionnaire.The sample: 89 patients with respiratory diseases, the average age was 49.21±18.3. Of these, 38 patients with upper respiratory tract diseases (URTD) (J30-J39) and 51 patients with lower respiratory tract diseases (LRTD) (J40-J47). 49 people had a history of COVID-19 disease.
ResultsThe sample of patients with both URTD and LRTD diseases is characterized by a high level of stress (27.13±6.937 vs 28.59±6.014, p=0.293). The average indicators of health anxiety in patients with LRTD diseases significantly exceed those of patients with URTD diseases (20.18±8.881 vs 15.68±7.022; p=0.01), which is consistent with data on a greater assessment of the disease threat compared with patients with upper respiratory tract diseases.The severity of DB symptoms in the group of patients with LRTD diseases significantly exceeds that in the group of patients with URTD (19.05±12.340 vs 24.29±11.470; p=0.042). Also in this group, there is a greater severity of individual symptoms of DB: spasm of the mouth muscles (p= 0.015), accelerated deep breathing (p= 0.002), shallow breathing (p=0.001) and the inability to take a deep breath (p=0.001).When analyzing the symptoms among patients who had and did not have a history of COVID-19, significant differences were found in such manifestations of DB as dizziness (1.98±1.351 vs 1.27±1.232; p=0.024) and confusion in the environment (0.61±0.891 vs 0.18±0.465; p=0.010), and also according to the severity of the symptoms of DB in general (23.76±11.996 vs 17.81±8.461; t=2.007, p=0.043).During the analysis, a relationship was established between the severity of DB symptoms and alertness to bodily sensations (R=0.259, p=0.014), which may indicate both an increase in DB symptoms with increased attention toward sensory sensations, and greater screening activity with an increase in DB symptoms. Increased alertness to bodily sensations is associated with situational stress (R=0.530; p=0.001) and personal anxiety (R=0.495, p=0.001).
ConclusionsThe results obtained make it possible to identify categories of patients with chronic respiratory diseases who need psychological counseling and psychotherapy.
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1.5 micron InAs quantum dot lasers based on metamorphic InGaAs/GaAsheterostructures.
- V. M. Ustinov, A. E. Zhukov, A. R. Kovsh, N. A. Maleev, S. S. Mikhrin, A. P. Vasil'ev, E. V. Nikitina, E. S. Semenova, N. V. Kryzhanovskaya, Yu. G. Musikhin, Yu. M. Shernyakov, M. V. Maximov, N. N. Ledentsov, D. Bimberg, Zh.I. Alferov
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- MRS Online Proceedings Library Archive / Volume 799 / 2003
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- 01 February 2011, Z7.2/T7.2
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- 2003
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1.5 micron range emission has been realized using the InAs quantum dots embedded into the metamorphic InGaAs layer containing 20% of InAs grown by MBE on a GaAs substrate. Growth regimes were optimized to reduce significantly the density of dislocations propagating into the active layer from the lattice mismatched interface. 2 mm long InGaAs/InGaAlAs lasers with 10 planes of quantum dots in the active region showed threshold current density about 1.4 kA/cm2 with the external differential efficiency as high as 38%. Lasing wavelength depends on the optical loss being in the 1.44–1.49 micron range at room temperature. On increasing the temperature the wavelength reaches 1.515 micron at 85C while the threshold current characteristic temperature of 55–60K was estimated. High internal quantum efficiency (η>60%) and low internal losses (α=3–4 cm-1 ) were realized. Maximum room temperature output power in pulsed regime as high as 5.5 W for 100 micron wide stripe was demonstrated. Using the same concept 1.3 micron InGaAs/InGaAlAs quantum well lasers were fabricated. The active region contained quantum wells with high (∼40%) indium content which was possible due to the intermediate InGaAs strain relaxation layer. 1 mm stripe lasers showed room temperature threshold current densities about 3.3 kA/cm2 (λ=1.29 micron) and 400 A/cm2 at 85K. Thus, the use of metamorphic InGaAs layers on GaAs substrate is a very promising approach for increasing the emission wavelength of GaAs based lasers.