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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY IN MEDICAL SETTINGS
Volume 29, Issue 3, Pages 678-688Publisher
SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1007/s10880-021-09823-y
Keywords
Common sense model; Inflammatory bowel disease; COVID-19 pandemic; Fear; Psychological distress; Quality of life
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- Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship
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The study used an extended common sense model to evaluate the impact of fear of COVID-19 on quality of life in an international cohort with inflammatory bowel disease. The findings suggest that interventions targeting individual perceptions of fear of COVID-19 may enhance quality of life during the pandemic.
The aim of this cross-sectional study was to use an extended common sense model (CSM) to evaluate the impact of fear of COVID-19 on quality of life (QoL) in an international inflammatory bowel disease cohort. An online study involving 319 adults (75% female, mean (SD) 14.06 (15.57) years of symptoms) completed the Gastrointestinal Symptom Rating Scale, Brief Illness Perceptions Questionnaire, Fear of Contracting COVID-19 Scale, Brief-COPE, Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale, and the EUROHIS-QOL. The extended CSM had an excellent fit (chi(2) (9) = 17.06, p = .05, chi(2)/N = 1.90, RMSEA = 0.05, SRMR = 0.04, CFI = .99, TLI = .97, GFI = 0.99), indicating the influence of gastrointestinal symptoms on QoL was mediated by illness perceptions, fear of COVID-19, adaptive and maladaptive coping, and psychological distress. Interventions targeting the fear of COVID-19 in the context of an individual's perceptions will likely enhance QoL during the pandemic.
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