Pre-pandemic Predictivity of Anxious-Depressive Symptoms in Post-surgical Traumatic Distress in Hysterectomy for Benign Disease and COVID-19 Outbreak: A Case-Control Study

• DOI: 10.20944/preprints202404.0274.v1
• Publication Date: 2024-04-04T03:43:05Z
• Authors: Marta Ielmini; Jvan Casarin; Camilla Callegari; Alessandro Bellini; Manuela Giada Favata; Anna Giudici; Fabio Ghezzi; Antonella Cromi; Ivano Caselli
• Keywords: Depression; Pandemic

The Sars-Cov-2 pandemic led to several needed containing measures that conditioned the onset of depressive, anxiety and post-traumatic stress symptoms in population. These symptoms, espe-cially if not diagnosed treated, can also occur patients undergoing surgery with high im-pact on people’s lives, like hysterectomy. To evaluate post-surgical distress anx-ious-depressive following hysterectomy for benign disease focusing impact COVID-19 pandemic. prospective observational cohort study included disease. Psychologic evaluation through social-demographic question-naires was obtained before (T1), postoperatively (T2), 3 months after (T3). HADS (Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale) used anxious-depressive PCL-5 (Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Checklist DSM-5) compared on-set depressive symptoms. pre-COVID-19 pan-demic period post-COVID-19 phase. Patients treated showed higher rate those (p-value=0.02); conversely, were more prone develop a PTSD (p-value=0.04). A significative association between occurrence anxiety-depressive registered at T2 (p-value=0.007) T3 (p-value