“Stay at Home” in Italy during the COVID-19 Outbreak: A Longitudinal Study on Individual Well-Being among Different Age Groups

• DOI: 10.3390/brainsci11080993
• Publication Date: 2021-07-27T16:18:31Z
• Authors: Alessandro Quaglieri; Giulia Lausi; Angelo Fraschetti; Jessica Burrai; Benedetta Barchielli; Alessandra Pizzo; Pierluigi Cordell...; Luigi De Gennaro; Maurizio Gorgoni; Fabio Ferlazzo; Stefano Sdoia; Pierpaolo Zivi; Anna Maria Giannini; Emanuela Mari
• Keywords: 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak; Longitudinal Study; Pandemic

The restrictions imposed by the Italian government because of coronavirus outbreak have been shown to be demanding on population. Data were collected at four different time points from 29 March 2020 3 May and during final follow-up survey 12 October 2020. In present study, we provided longitudinal evidence relationship between lockdown mental health dimensions, such as emotional state, perceived stress, perspective, for three age groups. results allowed us observe their psychological status perspectives five points. Notably, a negative effect individual well-beings emerged trend, differences in adaptation strategies prolonged stressful situation observed follow-up. Indeed, pairwise comparisons groups showed that young adult group (18–23 years old) seemed most psychologically affected lockdown. findings are discussed according recent literature topic. To best our knowledge, this is one first studies carried out Italy concerning general effects