ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2025
Resilience to depression and unchanged quality of life in Sardinian old adults during COVID-19 lockdown.
Article in Frontiers in psychiatry, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03858114 (Active Ageing and Health), which is not on this map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Active Ageing and Health
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
15 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Introduction: Older adults were expected to be particularly vulnerable to depressive symptoms during the COVID-19 lockdown due to social isolation, disruption of daily rhythms, and higher mortality risk. However, some studies have reported unexpected resilience in this population. This study aimed to assess resilience, operationalized as stability in depressive symptoms and health-related quality of life (H-QoL), before and during lockdown among older adults in Sardinia, Italy. Methods: We conducted a cohort follow-up study including community-dwelling older adults aged ≥65 years, originally enrolled in a randomized controlled trial promoting active aging. Participants were assessed at baseline (March-April 2019) and during lockdown (March-April 2020) using the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) and the Short-Form Health Survey (SF-12). Three groups were analyzed: 1. Study cohort, same participants assessed before and during lockdown (pre-post comparison). 2. National matched sample, extracted from a large Italian epidemiological survey, matched by age and sex, for comparison of SF-12 scores. 3. Regional matched sample, extracted from a Sardinian epidemiological survey, matched by age and sex, for comparison of PHQ-9 prevalence rates. Statistical analyses included ANOVA for continuous variables and Chi-square tests for proportions. Results: Ninety-three older adults (mean age 73.4 ± 5 years; 53.8% female) were included in the study cohort. No significant differences were found in SF-12 scores between baseline and lockdown (35.7 ± 4.5 vs. 34.3 ± 6.4; F (1,84) = 2.999, p = 0.085) or in PHQ-9 scores (2.3 ± 3.0 vs. 2.3 ± 3.5; F (1,84) = 0.035, p = 0.851). The proportion of participants with moderate/severe depressive symptoms (PHQ-9 ≥10) showed a non-significant increase (3.2% vs. 6.5%; p = 0.305). Comparisons with the national and regional matched samples also revealed no statistically significant differences. Discussion: Older adults in Sardinia demonstrated resilience during lockdown, maintaining stable levels of depressive symptoms and quality of life. Potential protective factors include strong family networks, maintenance of daily rhythms, and limited digital overexposure. These findings align with reports from other Western countries and warrant further research into cultural and social determinants of resilience in aging populations during crises. Clinical trial number: NCT03858114.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What Socratic holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.