COVID-19 and psychiatric disorders: The impact of face masks in emotion recognition face masks and emotion recognition in psychiatry

• DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.932791
• Publication Date: 2022-09-27T06:19:55Z
• Authors: Andrea Escelsior; Maria Bianca Amadeo; Davide Esposito; Anna Rosina; Alice Trabucco; Alberto Inuggi; Beatriz Pereira d...; Gianluca Serafini; Monica Gori; Mario Amore
• Keywords: Expressed emotion

Since the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic, reading facial expressions has become more complex due to face masks covering lower part people's faces. A history psychiatric illness been associated with higher rates complications, hospitalization, and mortality COVID-19. Psychiatric patients have well-documented difficulties emotions from expressions; accordingly, this study assesses how using masks, such as those worn for preventing transmission, impacts emotion recognition skills disorders. To end, current asked bipolar disorder, major depressive schizophrenia, healthy individuals identify on images without masks. Results demonstrate that all participants were negatively influenced by Moreover, main insight is impairment crucially significant when disorder schizophrenia had happiness at a low-intensity level. These findings important implications satisfactory social relationships well-being. If positive valence are hardly understood specific patients, there an even greater requirement doctor-patient interactions in public primary care.