On the Issue of Psychogenic Sensitization (in the Context of the COVID‑19 Pandemic)
https://doi.org/10.25016/2782-652X-2024-0-91-06-13
Abstract
Relevance. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the media (hereinafter) has repeatedly broadcast the narrative about the existence of the deadly danger of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the high probability of death in case of infection. Leading world leaders compared medical and preventive measures related to the treatment and non-spread of COVID-19 to war, without hesitating to use militaristic epithets and metaphors. Such information, continuously broadcasted by the media, exerted a psychogenic sensitizing effect, leading to changes in the cognitive, affective, and motivational-behavioral aspects of personal attitude systems in a significant portion of the population.
The aim is to study the influence of psychogenic sensitization on the formation of a response to the disease in COVID-19.
Methodology. The study was conducted at St. Petersburg State Budgetary Healthcare Institution “City Hospital No. 15,” Russian State Pedagogical University named after A.I. Herzen, and via the online resource docs.google.com/forms. A total of 120 individuals aged 16 to 65 were examined using clinical-psychological methods. Diagnosis of attitudes towards the disease was carried out using the TOBOL method. To clarify the socio-demographic characteristics and attitudes of respondents towards COVID-19, a questionnaire “Attitudes towards coronavirus” was developed. The analysis of empirical data was carried out using descriptive statistics methods and methods of mathematical and statistical data processing.
Result and their analysis. It has been established that psychogenic sensitization influences the formation of a response to the disease in COVID-19.
Conclusion. The results obtained can be used for the development and planning of psychopreventive measures within the framework of anti-epidemic activities.
About the Author
A. E. Otsus
The Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Aleksandr Evgenievich Otsus – PhD Student, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychological help
48, River Moika Emb., 191186, St. Petersburg
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Otsus A.E. On the Issue of Psychogenic Sensitization (in the Context of the COVID‑19 Pandemic). Bulletin of psychotherapy. 2024;(91):6-13. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.25016/2782-652X-2024-0-91-06-13
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