Excessive Media Consumption About COVID-19 is Associated With Increased State Anxiety: Outcomes of a Large Online Survey in Russia

Nikita A Nekliudov   ^{1 *} , BSc ;   Oleg Blyuss   ^{1, 2 *} , PhD ;   Ka Yan Cheung   ³ , BSc ;   Loukia Petrou   ^{3, 4} , BSc ;   Jon Genuneit   ⁵ , MSc, MD, PhD ;   Nikita Sushentsev   ⁶ , MD ;   Anna Levadnaya   ⁷ , MD, PhD ;   Pasquale Comberiati   ⁸ , MD ;   John O Warner   ^{3 *} , OBE, MD, FRCP, FRCPCH, FMedSci, FERS ;   Gareth Tudor-Williams   ^{9 *} , MD, MRCP, MRCPCH ;   Martin Teufel   ^{10 *} , MD, PhD ;   Matthew Greenhawt   ^{11 *} , MSc, MBA, MD ;   Audrey DunnGalvin   ^{1, 12 *} , PhD ;   Daniel Munblit   ^{1, 9, 13 *} , MD, MSc, PhD

¹ Department of Paediatrics and Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Institute of Child’s Health, Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), Moscow, Russian Federation

² School of Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, United Kingdom

³ Inflammation, Repair and Development Section, National Heart and Lung Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

⁴ Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

⁵ Pediatric Epidemiology, Department of Pediatrics, Medical Faculty, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany

⁶ Department of Radiology, Addenbrooke’s Hospital and University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

⁷ National Medical Research Center for Obstetrics, Gynecology and Perinatology, Moscow, Russian Federation

⁸ Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Section of Pediatrics, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

⁹ Department of Infectious Disease, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

¹⁰ Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, LVR University Hospital, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

¹¹ Department of Pediatrics, Section of Allergy/Immunology, Children’s Hospital Colorado, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, United States

¹² Applied Psychology and Paediatrics and Child Health, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

¹³ Solov’ev Research and Clinical Center for Neuropsychiatry, Moscow, Russian Federation

*these authors contributed equally