COVID-19: Factors associated with psychological distress, fear, and coping strategies among community members across 17 countries.
Muhammad Aziz RahmanSheikh Mohammed Shariful IslamPatraporn TungpunkomFarhana SultanaSheikh M AlifBiswajit BanikMasudus SalehinBindu JosephLouisa LamMimmie Claudine WattsSabria Jihan KhanSherief GhozySek Ying ChairWai Tong ChienCarlos Schönfeldt-LecuonaNashwa El-KhazragyIlias MahmudAdhra Hilal Al MawaliTurkiya Saleh Al MaskariRayan Jafnan AlharbiAmr HamzaMohamad Ali KeblawiMajeda HammoudAsmaa M ElaidyAgus Dwi SusantoAhmed Suparno Bahar MoniAlaa Ashraf AlQurashiAlmajdoub AliAmit WazibCattaliya Siripattarakul SanluangDeena H ElsoriFarhana YasminFeni Fitrani TaufikManal Al KloubMara Gerbabe RuizMohamed ElsayedNael Kamel EltewacyNahed Al LahamNatalia OliRamy AbdelnabyRania DweikRatree ThongyuSami AlmustanyirShaila RahmanSirirat NitayawanSondos Al-MadhounSuwit InthongTalal Ali AlharbiTamanna BaharTribowo Tuahta GintingWendy M CrossPublished in: Globalization and health (2021)
The extent of psychological distress, fear of COVID-19 and coping varied by country; however, we identified few higher risk groups who were more vulnerable than others. There is an urgent need to prioritise health and well-being of those people through well-designed intervention that may need to be tailored to meet country specific requirements.