Journal of International Psychiatry

object To explore the psychological problems and correlative influence factors of anxiety or depression among the COVID-19-infected community elderly (COVID-19-infected) after half a year.Method During December 1st to December 31st in 2022, the COVID-19-infected community elderly of 60s and above dwelling in Jiangwan substrict of Hongkou district,Shanghai were enrolled into this study.All the community elderly were asked to complete Patient Health Questionaire(PHQ-9),Generalized Anxiety Disorder(GAD-7) ,general demographic informations and the basic clinical informations with COVID-19-infected. To statistic analysis the differences of the general demographic informations and basic clinical informations about COVID-19-infected between the positive group and negtive group of anxiety or depression. Result 1.Completed 671 COVID-19-infected community elderly and the interval between COVID-19 positive and follow-up was (310±84) days.Among those cases,there were 319 cases(47.54%) with depression syptoms,109 cases(16.24%) with anxiety syptoms and 109 cases(16.24%)comorbidity with depression and anxiety syptoms.2.There were statistic differencs(P＜0.05) on gender,live alone,relevant history of COVID-19 symptoms(fever, cough, pneumonia and other syptoms).3.With regression analysis of influencing factors,it was found that the risk factors of depression or anxiety included female,live alone, the history of COVID-19 symptoms(fever,pneumonia and other syptoms). Conclusion There was higher detectable rate of depression or anxiety in the COVID-19-infected community elderly and last longer.It was partly related female,live alone and the history of COVID-19 symptoms.It needed provide the psychological problems follow-up screening and corresponding inteventions of psychological service for them.

Elderly;COVID-19-infected; Anxiety;Depression; Influence factors