Original title: Mental health status of people isolated due to Middle East Respiratory Syndrome
Researchers studied people who had been isolated after contact with MERSA disease caused by a virus that can infect people. patients in Korea. They asked about anxiety and anger during isolationKeeping someone apart from others to help manage an infectious disease. and again four to six months after release. Both were reported less often later, but some people still had these feelings. Later anxiety and anger were linked to factors such as illness symptoms, inadequate supplies, financial loss, and a history of psychiatric illness.
Imagine being kept home from school after a classmate gets sick. The days pass, but worry or frustration may linger even after you are allowed back. In this paper, being kept home stands for isolation, and the lingering feelings stand for anxiety and anger that some people reported months after release.
People placed in isolation during an infectious-disease outbreak may need support after they are released, not just while they are confined. The study links later anxiety and anger with factors including financial loss, poor supplies, symptoms, and a history of psychiatric illness.
The study included 1,692 people from 14,992 who were isolated, so its findings may not represent everyone isolated during the epidemic. It reports links between risk factors and later symptoms, not proof that those factors caused them. The abstract does not establish whether the proposed support would prevent mental health problems.
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Mental health status of people isolated due to Middle East Respiratory Syndrome — Hyunsuk Jeong, Hyeon Woo Yim, Yeong-Jun Song et al. — Epidemiology and Health — doi:10.4178/epih.e2016048
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