Major Stress-Related Symptoms During the Lockdown: A Study by the Italian Society of Psychophysiology and Cognitive Neuroscience

The clinical effects of the Covid-19 pandemic are now subject numerous studies worldwide. But what quarantine imposed by states that implemented measures lockdown? present research aims to explore, in a preliminary way, major stress-related symptoms during lockdown, due Covid-19, Italian population. Subjects were asked fill out survey, traced line identifying most relevant psychophysiological took into account factors such as perceived stress, body perception, pain, quality sleep, perceptive variations (i.e., olfactory, gustatory, visual, acoustic, and haptic perception). A network approach formulating hypothesis-generating exploratory analysis was adopted. Main results showed beliefs having had related individual variables gender, working presence, sleep quality, anxiety symptoms), while familiarity disease contextual (e.g., number recorded cases Region, presence). self-perception olfactory alterations highlighted great sensorial cross-modality, additionally, impairment belief Covid-19. Compared general data, BAI, chronic pain relation daily disturbance. study's show how management stressful representation, its cognitive aspects, can modulate responses.