Pseudoscientific beliefs and psychopathological risks increase after COVID-19 social quarantine

Background The health crisis caused by COVID-19 has led many countries to opt for social quarantine of the population. During this quarantine, communication systems have been characterized by disintermediation, the acceleration of digitization and an infodemic (excess and saturation of information)....

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Autores: Escolà-Gascón, Álex, Marín i Torné, Francesc-Xavier, Rusiñol Estragués, Jordi, Gallifa, Josep
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Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Universitat Ramon Llull (URL)
Repositorio:DAU Arxiu Digital de la Universitat Ramon Llull
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Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14342/2343
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12992-020-00603-1
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Palabra clave:Pandèmia de COVID-19, 2020- -- Aspectes psicològics
Confinament
Pseudociència
Psicosi
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spelling Pseudoscientific beliefs and psychopathological risks increase after COVID-19 social quarantineEscolà-Gascón, ÁlexMarín i Torné, Francesc-XavierRusiñol Estragués, JordiGallifa, JosepPandèmia de COVID-19, 2020- -- Aspectes psicològicsConfinamentPseudociènciaPsicosiBackground The health crisis caused by COVID-19 has led many countries to opt for social quarantine of the population. During this quarantine, communication systems have been characterized by disintermediation, the acceleration of digitization and an infodemic (excess and saturation of information). The following debate arises: Do the levels related to the psychotic phenotype and pseudoscientific beliefs related to the interpretation of information vary before and after social quarantine? Objectives This research aims to examine the psychological effects of social quarantine on the psychotic phenotype and pseudoscientific beliefs-experiences of the general nonclinical population. The following hypothesis was posed: social quarantine alters the levels of magical thinking, pseudoscientific beliefs and anomalous perceptions due to quarantine. Methods A pre- and posttest analysis design was applied based on the difference in means, and complementary Bayesian estimation was performed. A total of 174 Spanish subjects responded to different questionnaires that evaluated psychopathological risks based on psychotic phenotypes, pseudoscientific beliefs and experiences before and after quarantine. Results Significant differences were obtained for the variables positive psychotic symptoms, depressive symptoms, and certain perceptual alterations (e.g., cenesthetic perceptions), and a significant increase in pseudoscientific beliefs was also observed. The perceptual disturbances that increased the most after quarantine were those related to derealization and depersonalization. However, paranoid perceptions showed the highest increase, doubling the initial standard deviation. These high increases could be related to the delimitation of physical space during social quarantine and distrust towards information communicated by the government to the population. Is it possible that social alarmism generated by the excess of information and pseudoscientific information has increased paranoid perceptual alterations? Conclusions Measures taken after quarantine indicate that perceptual disturbances, subclinical psychotic symptoms and beliefs in the pseudoscience have increased. We discuss which elements of quarantine coincide with the social marginality theory and its clinical repercussions.BMCUniversitat Ramon Llull. Facultat de Psicologia, Ciències de l’Educació i de l’Esport Blanquerna20222023202220232020info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion11 p.application/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14342/2343https://doi.org/10.1186/s12992-020-00603-1RECERCAT (Dipòsit de la Recerca de Catalunya)reponame:DAU Arxiu Digital de la Universitat Ramon Llullinstname:Universitat Ramon Llull (URL)InglésGlobalization and Health (2020) 16:72Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International© L'autor/ahttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:dau.url.edu:20.500.14342/23432026-06-21T06:40:37Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Pseudoscientific beliefs and psychopathological risks increase after COVID-19 social quarantine
title Pseudoscientific beliefs and psychopathological risks increase after COVID-19 social quarantine
spellingShingle Pseudoscientific beliefs and psychopathological risks increase after COVID-19 social quarantine
Escolà-Gascón, Álex
Pandèmia de COVID-19, 2020- -- Aspectes psicològics
Confinament
Pseudociència
Psicosi
title_short Pseudoscientific beliefs and psychopathological risks increase after COVID-19 social quarantine
title_full Pseudoscientific beliefs and psychopathological risks increase after COVID-19 social quarantine
title_fullStr Pseudoscientific beliefs and psychopathological risks increase after COVID-19 social quarantine
title_full_unstemmed Pseudoscientific beliefs and psychopathological risks increase after COVID-19 social quarantine
title_sort Pseudoscientific beliefs and psychopathological risks increase after COVID-19 social quarantine
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Escolà-Gascón, Álex
Marín i Torné, Francesc-Xavier
Rusiñol Estragués, Jordi
Gallifa, Josep
author Escolà-Gascón, Álex
author_facet Escolà-Gascón, Álex
Marín i Torné, Francesc-Xavier
Rusiñol Estragués, Jordi
Gallifa, Josep
author_role author
author2 Marín i Torné, Francesc-Xavier
Rusiñol Estragués, Jordi
Gallifa, Josep
author2_role author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Universitat Ramon Llull. Facultat de Psicologia, Ciències de l’Educació i de l’Esport Blanquerna
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Pandèmia de COVID-19, 2020- -- Aspectes psicològics
Confinament
Pseudociència
Psicosi
topic Pandèmia de COVID-19, 2020- -- Aspectes psicològics
Confinament
Pseudociència
Psicosi
description Background The health crisis caused by COVID-19 has led many countries to opt for social quarantine of the population. During this quarantine, communication systems have been characterized by disintermediation, the acceleration of digitization and an infodemic (excess and saturation of information). The following debate arises: Do the levels related to the psychotic phenotype and pseudoscientific beliefs related to the interpretation of information vary before and after social quarantine? Objectives This research aims to examine the psychological effects of social quarantine on the psychotic phenotype and pseudoscientific beliefs-experiences of the general nonclinical population. The following hypothesis was posed: social quarantine alters the levels of magical thinking, pseudoscientific beliefs and anomalous perceptions due to quarantine. Methods A pre- and posttest analysis design was applied based on the difference in means, and complementary Bayesian estimation was performed. A total of 174 Spanish subjects responded to different questionnaires that evaluated psychopathological risks based on psychotic phenotypes, pseudoscientific beliefs and experiences before and after quarantine. Results Significant differences were obtained for the variables positive psychotic symptoms, depressive symptoms, and certain perceptual alterations (e.g., cenesthetic perceptions), and a significant increase in pseudoscientific beliefs was also observed. The perceptual disturbances that increased the most after quarantine were those related to derealization and depersonalization. However, paranoid perceptions showed the highest increase, doubling the initial standard deviation. These high increases could be related to the delimitation of physical space during social quarantine and distrust towards information communicated by the government to the population. Is it possible that social alarmism generated by the excess of information and pseudoscientific information has increased paranoid perceptual alterations? Conclusions Measures taken after quarantine indicate that perceptual disturbances, subclinical psychotic symptoms and beliefs in the pseudoscience have increased. We discuss which elements of quarantine coincide with the social marginality theory and its clinical repercussions.
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