id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-304838-r9w8milu Olaseni, Abayomi O. Psychological distress experiences of Nigerians during Covid-19 pandemic; the gender difference 2020-12-31 .txt text/plain 4986 222 43 From March 20, 2020, to April 12, 2020, this descriptive survey used a snowballing sampling technique to select 502-Nigerians with an online semi-structured questionnaire detailing the impact of Event Scale-Revised, Generalized Anxiety Disorder – 7 item scale, Patient Health Questionnaire and Insomnia Severity Index. However, prevalence estimates analysis revealed that majority of the male respondents (65.1%) had no clinical insomnia, 20.8% of the male participants reported sub-threshold level of insomnia, 8.2% of the respondents had moderate insomnia symptoms, while 5.9% of the male respondents presented severe clinical insomnia during the COVID-19 pandemic. Though this study recorded no significant difference between the gender (male and female) experiences of insomnia, depression, posttraumatic stress symptoms and anxiety, the study result reported a relevant prevalence of outcomes of psychological distress among the general public in Nigeria. ./cache/cord-304838-r9w8milu.txt ./txt/cord-304838-r9w8milu.txt