Resilience, hardiness and social support in combatants with non-psychotic mental disorders that have suffered from Covid-19.

OBJECTIVE

Aim: To establish the features of resilience, hardiness and social support in combatants with non-psychotic mental disorders who have suffered from COVID-19 in a comparative aspect.

PATIENTS AND

METHODS

Materials and

Methods

252 male combatants with non-psychotic mental disorders who suffered from COVID-19 were clinically examined using Connor-Davidson resilience scale-10, Brief Hardiness Scale and MSPSS. The examination included a clinical interview organized by the method of a semi-structured clinical interview, during which the presence and detail of complaints from the affective sphere was established, as well as an assessment of the severity of resilience, hardiness and social support. Statistical analysis of differences in categorized traits was performed using Fisher's exact test (one-sided), quantitative traits - using the nonparametric Mann-Whitney test.

RESULTS

Results

In combatants with non-psychotic mental disorders that have suffered from COVID-19 were found lower levels resilience: 18.08±10.06 points vs 23.41±8.80 points (p<0.0001); hardiness: 12.28±4.20 points vs 15.67±6.88 points (p<0.001) and his components: commitment: 3.50±1.81 points vs 4.89±2.76 points (p<0.0001), control: 4.44±1.70 points vs 5.38±2.40 points (p <0.01) and challenge: 4.33±1.79 points vs 5.40±2.42 points (p<0.001); social support: 11.63±4.29 points vs 14.68±4.62 points (p<0.0001) and his components: family support: 3.85±1.54 points vs 4.95±1.58 points (p<0.0001), friends support: 3.95±1.48 points vs 5.00±1.77 points (p<0.0001) and significant other support: 3.83±1.51 points vs 4.73±1.53 points (p<0.0001). Among combatants with non-psychotic mental disorders who did not suffer from COVID-19, people with average and high levels of resilience, moderate resilience and a high level of social support predominated, and among combatants who recovered from COVID-19, people with low resilience, hardiness and social support.

CONCLUSION

Conclusions

Combatants with non-psychotic mental disorders are characterized by a low level of resilience and hardiness, as well as a moderate level of social support, significantly worse in combatants that have suffered from COVID-19.