Belief in a COVID-19 Conspiracy Theory as a Predictor of Mental Health and Well-Being of Health Care Workers in Ecuador: Cross-Sectional Survey Study.

Xi Chen Stephen X Zhang Asghar Afshar Jahanshahi Aldo Alvarez-Risco Huiyang Dai Jizhen Li Verónica García Ibarra

Published in: JMIR public health and surveillance (2020)

This paper identifies belief in COVID-19 conspiracy theories as an important predictor of distress, anxiety, and job and life satisfaction among health care workers. This finding will enable mental health services to better target and provide help to mentally vulnerable health care workers during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Keyphrases

coronavirus disease
sars cov
mental health
genome wide
social support
sleep quality
mental illness
gene expression
dna methylation
depressive symptoms