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NCT Number: NCT04426266

Psychological Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Hungarian Adult Population

The aim of the study is to explore the psychological effects of the COVID-19 pandemic among Hungarian adults with the use of an anonymous online questionnaire that consists of 65 items. With these results it will possible to identify coping strategies that can help Hungarian adults to deal with the difficulties arising from the pandemic.

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Key information

Conditions

Questionnaire Designs Behavior Behavioral Symptoms COVID-19 COVID-19 Pandemic Coping Skills Coronaviridae Infections Coronavirus Infections Depression Health Status Index Infections Lung Diseases Mood Nidovirales Infections Patient Health Questionnaire Anxiety and Depression Scale Pneumonia Pneumonia, Viral Psychological Stress RNA Virus Infections Respiratory Tract Diseases Respiratory Tract Infections Stress, Psychological Subjective Health Complaint Two-Item Generalised Anxiety Disorder Scale Virus Diseases

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

University of Szeged Department of Dermatology and Allergology

Szeged, 6720, Hungary

About this study

Planned course of the project:

  • We make the questionnaire using Google Forms.
  • The link of the online questionnaire is sent to three public groups via the social media website Facebook.
  • By clicking on the sent link, all participants are able to read information about the project and about the consent to participate in it. Then the participant will be able to give consent to participate in the project. After giving consent, the participant will be able to start filling out the questionnaire. If the participant indicates that he/she does not want to give consent to the study, the website will indicate that the participation of him/her has ended in the project.
  • Anonymous answers will be automatically saved.
  • The participants will be given code numbers based on the order in which they filled out the questionnaire.
  • The data will be analysed by the researchers. For a participant, completing the online questionnaire takes approximately 10-15 minutes.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

The participant must have access to the internet and to the social media website Facebook.

Exclusion criteria

none

Treatment and study plan

Primary outcomes

  1. sociodemopraphic factors

    Time frame: 5 months

    6 items - age, sex, city of residence, marital status, level of education, employment status

  2. perceived stress

    Time frame: 5 months

    Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), 10 items about thoughts and feelings that characterize a person's perception of stress

  3. level of anxiety

    Time frame: 5 months

    The General Anxiety Disorder Assessment GAD-2, 2 items to examine the level of anxiety

  4. self-reported health state

    Time frame: 5 months

    EQ5D-VAS, 1 item to examine health status

  5. number of complaints

    Time frame: 5 months

    Self-administered inventory of complaints (Hungarian questionnaire), 20 items to measure number of complaints.

  6. strategies in coping with stressful situations

    Time frame: 5 months

    Shortened (Hungarian) version of the Ways of Coping Questionnaire (WOC), 22 items to measure cognitive or behavioral strategies in coping with stressful situations

  7. psychological effects of the coronavirus pandemic on the participants' mood and ways of coping with difficulties arising from the pandemic

    Time frame: 5 months

    psychological effects of the coronavirus pandemic on the participants' mood and ways of coping with difficulties arising from the pandemic, 2 open-ended questions (not obligatory to answer) in connection with psychological effects of the coronavirus pandemic (its effects on the participants' mood and ways of coping with difficulties arising from the pandemic).

  8. level of depression

    Time frame: 5 months

    The Patient Health Questionnaire PHQ-2, 2 items to examine the level of depression

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Szeged University

Other

Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2020
Primary completion
2020
Study completion
2020
First posted
Jun 11, 2020
Registry last updated
Sep 29, 2020

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