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COVID-19 Post-vaccination depression in older Israeli adults : the role of negative world assumptions
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Greenblatt-Kimron, L., Hoffman, Y., Ben-Ezra, Menachem, Goodwin, Robin and Palgi, Y. (2022) COVID-19 Post-vaccination depression in older Israeli adults : the role of negative world assumptions. Global Mental Health, 9 . pp. 45-48. doi:10.1017/gmh.2022.11 ISSN 2054-4251.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/gmh.2022.11
Abstract
Background
With the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic, the aging population has been shown to be highly vulnerable. As a result, policy makers and the media urged older adults to restrict social interactions, placing them at greater risk of mental health problems, such as depression. However, there has been a little previous attempt to examine coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) vaccine-related risk factors and depressive symptoms amongst older adults.
Methods
Participants (938 older adults, Mage = 68.99, S.D. = 3.41, range 65–85) answered an online questionnaire at the start of the COVID-19 vaccination program in Israel. Participants completed measures of background characteristics, world assumptions, COVID-19 vaccine-related variables, and symptoms of depression.
Results
Univariate logistic regression revealed that more negative world assumptions were linked with clinical depression levels.
Conclusions
Older adults in our sample were susceptible to unique factors associated with clinical depression influenced by their world assumptions during their COVID-19 vaccination. The high level of depression following vaccination indicates that it may take time to recover from depression associated with pandemic distress. Cognitive interventions that focus on world assumptions are recommended.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine R Medicine > RC Internal medicine |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | COVID-19 (Disease), COVID-19 (Disease) -- Israel, COVID-19 (Disease) -- Epidemiology, COVID-19 (Disease) -- Health aspects -- Israel , COVID-19 (Disease) -- Israel -- Psychological aspects, COVID-19 (Disease) -- Vaccination -- Israel , Older Jews -- Mental health , Depression in old age -- Israel | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Global Mental Health | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 2054-4251 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 2022 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 9 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 45-48 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1017/gmh.2022.11 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This article has been accepted for publication in a revised form for publication in Global Mental Health Link to Journal’s site on https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/global-mental-health | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 1 February 2022 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 1 February 2022 | ||||||||
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