ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Structure of anxiety associated with СOVID-19 pandemic: the online survey results

Sorokin MYu1, Kasyanov ED1, Rukavishnikov GV1, Makarevich OV1, Neznanov NG1,2, Lutova NB1, Mazo GE1
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1 V.M. Bekhterev National Medical Research Center for Psychiatry and Neurology, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

2 The First Saint-Petersburg State Medical University named after Academician I. P. Pavlov, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Correspondence should be addressed: Mikhail Yu. Sorokin
Bekhtereva, 3, Saint-Petersburg, 192019; ur.tsil@nikoros.m

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Compliance with ethical standards: the study was performed in accordance with the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki (2013). All participants submitted the consent to personal data processing.

Acknowledgements: we would like to express our gratitude to the Russian Society of Psychiatrists (RSP) members, to Anastasia Petrova and the Partnership of Equal ANPO, to Maria Pushkina (Favorskaya) and the Bipolar association, to Victor Lebedev and the Pinel's Affair project, and to the Psychiatry & Neurosciences educational service.

Author contribution: Sorokin MYu — research design, statistical processing and data analysis, manuscript writing; Kasyanov ED — research design, data acquisition and analysis, manuscript writing; Rukavishnikov GV — research design, data analysis, manuscript writing; Makarevich OV — research design, manuscript writing; Neznanov NG — editing; Lutova NB, Mazo GE — research concept and design, data analysis, manuscript writing and editing.

Received: 2020-05-06 Accepted: 2020-05-21 Published online: 2020-06-03
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