@article{Wentian_Baoliang_Fritzsche_2023, title={Acute Psychological Responses in the First Days of the COVID-19 Lock-Down Order in China; A Population-Based Survey}, volume={7}, url={https://ijbmc.org/index.php/ijbmc/article/view/264}, DOI={10.22122/ijbmc.v7i3.264}, abstractNote={<p><strong>Background:</strong> The corona crisis is an unprecedented health emergency, with serious risks for physical and mental health. After the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in Wuhan, China, the Chinese government was the first to implement a general lock-down in the Hubei Province on January 23rd 2020, which affected more than 50 million people.</p> <p><strong>Methods:</strong> From 27<sup>th</sup> January to 2<sup>nd</sup> February 2020, 3934 inhabitants of China and 3826 inhabitants of Hubei Province were interviewed through an online survey about their physical and mental health problems following the general lock-down in the Hubei Province on January 23<sup>rd</sup> 2020.</p> <p><strong>Results:</strong> In the early stage, people under lock-down mostly suffered from health-related anxieties, sleeping problems, physical complaints, and symptoms of anxiety and depressive disorders.</p> <p><strong>Conclusion:</strong> Our data indicate that social isolation is an unpleasant experience that has immediate psychological consequences for the individual. Follow-up studies to investigate the long-term psychological and psychosomatic problems resulting from the COVID-19 crisis are necessary.</p>}, number={3}, journal={International Journal of Body, Mind and Culture}, author={Wentian, Li and Baoliang, Zhong and Fritzsche, Kurt}, year={2023}, month={Apr.}, pages={180–183} }