The Fruits of Labor: Home Food Procurement and Mental Health in the Time of COVID-19

We examine the relationship of home food procurement (HFP) during COVID-19 to emotional eating and stress using a statewide representative survey (n = 600) in Vermont. Women and people with a job change since COVID-19 were more likely to experience higher stress and emotional eating. Engaging in HFP, especially gardening, is associated with less emotional eating. However, people who fished, hunted, or canned more since the pandemic began were more likely to eat for emotional reasons and experience higher stress. These results suggest that gardening, even during a pandemic, may contribute to stress reduction, more so than other nature-based food production activities.Copyright © 2022 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

"Disconnected from the World:" Exploring How the COVID- 19 Pandemic Shaped Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Cancer Survivors' Daily Lives

Background/Purpose: Adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer survivors experience acute and long-term challenges, including disruptions to developmental milestones, altered relationships, and difficulty managing follow-up care. The COVID-19 pandemic likely exacerbated these challenges, but, to date, we know little about young survivors' day-to-day lives during this time. Here, we qualitatively assessed AYA cancer survivors' pandemic-related experiences. Method(s): Thirty-five AYA cancer survivors (85% female, Mage = 32.7 years, 71% White, September 2020-March 2021) wrote factual details about their day-to-day lives (e.g., "what is a typical day like?") as part of a larger randomized controlled trial. Participants were, on average, 5.9 years post-diagnosis;the majority were diagnosed with lymphoma (25.7%) or thyroid cancer (17.1%). Data were analyzed using constant comparative method. Result(s): Five themes emerged: (1) job changes (e.g., inability to work due to immunosuppression, fear career would become less viable);(2) limited interactions/relational depth (e.g., feeling "left out" due to immunosuppression, inability to date, risky family behaviors limit meaningful connection);(3) varying reactions to virtual communication (e.g., gratitude for online schooling, exercise, and social media, withdrawing from friendships due to "zoom burn out," not attending therapy due to lack of engagement);(4) difficulty engaging in health-promoting behaviors and attending/interacting in medical appointments (e.g., problems maintaining nutrition and exercise routines, postponing surveillance appointments, missing family member presence in medical appointments), and (5) disruptions/ delays to post-treatment milestones/plans (e.g., delaying vocational changes, wedding and family planning, and celebratory travel). Notably, no themes associated with positive adjustment emerged. Conclusions and Implications: Goals within multiple domains were obstructed and unmet needs were identified, namely, assistance navigating isolation, relationship disruptions, career/financial barriers, and access to medical care. Results are limited due to the methodology, as this was not a structured interview. Nonetheless, individual counsel with AYA cancer survivors is recommended to provide resources and address pandemic-induced barriers to health and well-being.

Reverse Migration Perspective Prospectus and Challenges (with special reference to covid-19)

In India, the significant drivers of both interior and worldwide relocation are the overall joblessness, cutthroat work market and improved job possibilities in the objective state or country. In any case, the cross-country lockdown and the fixing of between state and global lines to control the COVID-19 pandemic set off the converse relocation of casual traveler laborers. This requires the focal and state legislatures to all in all manufacture systems to empower their converse relocation and smooth reintegration in the post-COVID economy. In this paper, we have zeroed in on the between state travelers in India and returnee transients just from Gulf nations as they represent 66% of Indian travelers living abroad. This study led a near examination of the Indian government's changed methodology towards its interior and worldwide travelers during their converse relocation, bringing home and reintegration after the declaration of the lockdown. First and foremost, the paper analyzes the difficulties looked by inner and worldwide traveler laborers during these stages with the assistance of inside and out interview information gathered from transients and social specialists. Also, the changed legislative reactions towards their bringing home are talked about. Thirdly, it examinations the snags in their monetary reintegration to assist with outlining appropriate government assistancestrategies for the Indian transient local area.Copyright © 2022, Anka Publishers. All rights reserved.

Crossing the Same River Multiple Times: Cautiously setting aside pandemic practices, pharma workers appear ready for flux, change, evolution, and expanding molecular diversity

The article presents results of an employment survey on trends and the state of the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry in 2022. Findings reveal COVID-19 measures that are important to daily operations, stagnation of wage growth and decline in overall salary satisfaction, job security changes and drop in job satisfaction, and business concerns including corporate performance and industry growth.

Mental health status of frontline clinical nurses fighting the Omicron variant of COVID-19 - a cross-sectionalsurvey in China

Introduction and Objective. From March 2022, China has been in the rapid progressing stage of the Omicron outbreak. However, the mental status of clinical nurses against infection by the Omicron variant of COVID-19 has been not explored. Therefore, a nationwide online investigation with a larger sample size was conducted to explore the mental status of Chinese frontline clinical nurses, and its influencing factors using sound validated and reliable measurements. Materials and method. A cross-sectional study was conducted, and 1,204 clinical nurses fighting the Omicron outbreak were recruited across various provinces of China. Results. The mean age of the nurses was 30.43 (SD=6.59) years. The majority were female. The rates of these nurses with depression, anxiety, stress, and insomnia symptoms were 29.2%, 37.2%, 19.1%, and 48.8%, respectively. The variables of department, insomnia, fear with COVID-19, turnover intention, job burnout, work coping style, and public recognition of nursing, were significant factors influencing the mental status of clinical nurses. Conclusions. The Chinese clinical nurses fighting the Omicron variant of COVID-19 had a similar level of depression and anxiety, a higher level of insomnia, and a lower level of stress, in comparison with nurses globally who experienced the initial period of the pandemic. Targeted investigation and interventions are urgently needed for Chinese frontline clinical nurses with high levels of anxiety, depression and insomnia, who fought against infection by Omicron. Much more professional advocacy is strongly recommended during control of the pandemic and recovery to consolidate the role and influence of nurses. The contribution and visibility of nursing should be recognized not only by the medical professionals, but by the public in general. Copyright © 2022, Institute of Agricultural Medicine. All rights reserved.

Quitting in the face of intolerable pressure: To what extent is burnout from the pandemic pushing nurses to leave the profession?

Surveys are highlighting concerns about negative psychological effects of the pandemic – notably stress, burnout and post-traumatic stress disorder – on the UK nursing workforce. Another, published by the RCN, shows nursing staff in the UK are still being asked to keep going in the face of intolerable pressure.

Racial and ethnic disparities in lifestyle changes during the COVID-19 pandemic: Exploring the socioeconomic and psychosocial mechanisms

Background: Obesity, physical inactivity, excessive alcohol consumption, and poor diet are all modifiable risk factors for cancer. These unhealthy behaviors are disproportionally concentrated in racial and ethnic minorities and these disparities may have been exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study examined racial and ethnic disparities in weight gain and other undesirable lifestyle changes during the COVID-19 pandemic and explored mechanisms underlying these lifestyle disparities. Methods: We used data from the 2020 Health, Ethnicity and Pandemic Study, a national survey representative of US households conducted in October 2020. Racial and ethnic minorities were oversampled. Participants were asked to report lifestyle behaviors before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. We examined two outcomes in this study: weight gain and experiencing any undesirable lifestyle changes (i.e., reduced exercise time, increased alcohol drinking, or increased fast-food meal consumption). The primary exposure was race-ethnicity (non-Hispanic (NH) white, NH black, Hispanic, NH Asian, NH other race). Four sets of mediators were examined: socioeconomic status (education, household income, and undesirable job changes), family and friend social relationship change, perceived and experienced racism, and psychological distress. Weighted multivariable logistic regression models were performed. Mediation effects were examined with variance decomposition method. Results: A total of 2,709 participants were included in our sample. Compared with white respondents, black (OR = 1.71;p < 0.001) and Hispanic respondents (OR = 2.17;p < 0.001) were more likely to experience weight gain, controlling for age and sex. Among the hypothesized mediators, undesirable job changes during the pandemic, experiencing worse family relationship, and higher levels of psychological distress were all linked to higher odds of weight gain, but none of these variables played a salient role in mediating the black-white and Hispanic-white disparities in weight gain during the pandemic. As to the odds of experiencing undesirable lifestyle changes, black (OR = 1.76;p < 0.001), Hispanic (OR = 2.12;p < 0.001), and Asian respondents (OR = 1.42;p < 0.01) all exhibited disadvantages relative to white respondent. These disadvantages were largely attributable to perceived racism toward one's own group and psychological distress for all three minority groups. Conclusions: Racial and ethnic minorities were more likely to experience unhealthy lifestyle changes relative to white individuals during the pandemic in the United States, which can be partly attributable to higher levels of perceived racism and psychological distress. The long-term effects of racial/ethnic disparities of lifestyle change during the pandemic on cancer prevention warrant further research.

The healthy donor effect: Mental health among blood donors in the midst of the pandemic

Aims: The COVID-19 pandemic has affected lives of Danish citizens in different ways, for example, through social distancing and other public health measures introduced to mitigate SARS-CoV-2 spread or through economic consequences. We assessed changes in self-reported measures of physical and mental health-related quality of life (MCS, PCS), stress levels, quality of sleep and loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic in Denmark, and identified factors influencing such changes. Methods: This is a nation-wide prospective cohort study including 50,968 participants in the Danish Blood Donor Study, who answered health questionnaires before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. The questionnaires included the 12-Item Short Form Health Survey, Cohen's Perceived Stress Scale 10-item version, the 3-item UCLA loneliness scale, and three selected questions evaluating insomnia. During the pandemic, the questionnaire also contained items on the personality trait stamina, behaviours undertaken to avoid infection, and changes in experienced changes in job situation during the pandemic. Finally, information on socio-demographic factors and previous use of anti-depressive medication was collected for all study participants from national registers. Descriptive statistics, multivariable linear and multinomial logistic regression analyses were applied. Results: Comparing measurements from before March 2020 with those after May 2020, MCS and quality of sleep both worsened, while the overall stress levels decreased. PCS decreased in men and increased in women. The mean level of loneliness increased by 14%. The degree of health changes varied by age, type of job, changes in job situation during the pandemic, previous use of anti-depressive medication and by level of personal stamina. Conclusions: Living under the unusual circumstances that persisted during the COVID-19 pandemic negatively impacted the health of Danish blood donors.Our observations may herald an emerging public health problem.

Ecuadorian Journalists Mental Health Influence on Changing Job Desire: A Cross Sectional Study.

Journalist's mental health could predict their job change. This study aims at determining the prevalence of mental health issues and their association with perception of aptitude for covering emergencies and difficulty in seeing a corpse, and also to determine the mental health factors associated with job change. An ad hoc survey, GHQ-28 (Somatization, Anxiety-Insomnia, Social Dysfunction, Depression), MBI-P (Burnout, Emotional Exhaustion, Depersonalization, personal accomplishment) and Brief scale to diagnose Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Suicide Risk were applied to 196 journalists (female = 51.6%). Descriptive analysis, correlations (Pearson and Spearman), T-test and binary logistic regression were performed. It was found that one third part of journalists perceive themselves as having low aptitude to cover emergencies and difficulty in seeing a corpse, 17.3% would consider changing jobs and 42.1% could only access free mental health services. The most frequent mental health problems are: low personal accomplishment, emotional exhaustion and post-traumatic stress disorder (11.2 to 17.3%). People who want to change jobs present more: social dysfunction, depression, emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, low personal accomplishment, post-traumatic stress disorder and suicide risk. The two mental health factors associated with desire of changing jobs are high emotional exhaustion, and low personal accomplishment. These results guide the psychosocial risk prevention processes for journalists, as well as the training needs that universities could consider to protect the mental health of this vulnerable group.