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By the end of 2021, more than 260 million people worldwide had been infected and 5.2 million people had died because of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Various countermeasures have been implemented to contain the infections, depending on the country, infection prevalence, and political and infrastructural resources. The pandemic and the containment measures have induced diverse psychological burdens. Using internet queries as a proxy, this study examines the psychological consequences on a European level of SARS-CoV-2 containment measures.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S0033291723001563_sec_a2\" sec-type=\"methods\"><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>Using informetric analyses, this study reviews within 32 European countries a total of 28 search parameters derived from the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-10) as aspects of affective disorder.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S0033291723001563_sec_a3\" sec-type=\"results\"><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Our results show that there are several psychological aspects which are significantly emphasized during the pandemic and its containment measures: \u2018anxiety\u2019, \u2018dejection\u2019, \u2018weariness\u2019, \u2018listlessness\u2019, \u2018loss of appetite\u2019, \u2018loss of libido\u2019, \u2018panic attack\u2019, and \u2018worthlessness\u2019. These terms are significantly more frequently part of a search query during the pandemic than before the outbreak. Furthermore, our results revealed that search parameters such as \u2018psychologist\u2019, \u2018psychotherapist\u2019, \u2018psychotherapy\u2019 have increased highly significantly (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> &lt; 0.01) since the pandemic.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S0033291723001563_sec_a4\" sec-type=\"conclusions\"><jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title><jats:p>The psychological distress caused by the pandemic correlates significantly with the frequency of people searching for psychological and psychotherapeutic support on the Internet.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1017\/s0033291723001563","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,6,26]],"date-time":"2023-06-26T09:44:43Z","timestamp":1687772683000},"page":"7685-7697","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/policypage","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Impact of the pandemic and its containment measures in Europe upon aspects of affective impairments: a Google Trends informetrics study"],"prefix":"10.1017","volume":"53","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7542-3911","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Istvan-Szilard","family":"Szilagyi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6703-2865","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Eva","family":"Eggeling","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1201-3752","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Helmar","family":"Bornemann-Cimenti","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7866-9762","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Torsten","family":"Ullrich","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"56","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,6,26]]},"reference":[{"key":"S0033291723001563_ref26","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ejim.2021.06.009"},{"key":"S0033291723001563_ref14","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.psychres.2020.112934"},{"key":"S0033291723001563_ref36","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1093\/oso\/9780195069945.001.0001","volume-title":"Emotion and adaptation","author":"Lazarus","year":"1991"},{"key":"S0033291723001563_ref15","first-page":"3.1","article-title":"A view of the linguistic situation in Malta","volume":"14","author":"Capdevila","year":"2004","journal-title":"Noves SL. 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