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Results of the COVID-19 mental health international for the health professionals (COMET-HP) study: depression, suicidal tendencies and conspiracism.
Document Type
article
Author
Fountoulakis, Konstantinos NN. Karakatsoulis, GrigoriosAbraham, SeriAdorjan, KristinaAhmed, Helal UddinAlarcón, Renato DArai, KiyomiAuwal, Sani SalihuBobes, JulioBobes-Bascaran, TeresaBourgin-Duchesnay, JulieBredicean, Cristina AnaBukelskis, LaurynasBurkadze, AkakiCabrera Abud, Indira IndianaCastilla-Puentes, RubyCetkovich, MarceloColon-Rivera, HectorCorral, RicardoCortez-Vergara, CarlaCrepin, Piirikade Berardis, DomenicoZamora Delgado, Sergiode Lucena, Davidde Sousa, Avinashdi Stefano, RamonaDodd, SeetalElek, Livia PriyankaElissa, AnnaErdelyi-Hamza, BertaErzin, GamzeEtchevers, Martin JFalkai, PeterFarcas, AdrianaFedotov, IlyaFilatova, ViktoriiaFountoulakis, Nikolaos KFrankova, IrynaFranza, FrancescoFrias, PedroGalako, TatianaGaray, Cristian JGarcia-Álvarez, LeticiaGarcía-Portilla, PazGonda, XeniaGondek, Tomasz MMorera González, DanielaGould, HilaryGrandinetti, PaoloGrau, ArturoGroudeva, VioletaHagin, MichalHarada, TakayukiHasan, Tasdik MAzreen Hashim, NurulHilbig, JanHossain, SahadatIakimova, RossitzaIbrahim, MonaIftene, FeliciaIgnatenko, YuliaIrarrazaval, MatiasIsmail, ZalihaIsmayilova, JamilaJacobs, AsafJakovljević, MiroJakšić, NenadJaved, AfzalYilmaz Kafali, HelinKaria, SagarKazakova, OlgaKhalifa, DoaaKhaustova, OlenaKoh, SteveKopishinskaia, SvetlanaKosenko, KorneliiaKoupidis, Sotirios AKovacs, IllesKulig, BarbaraLalljee, AlishaLiewig, JustineMajid, AbdulMalashonkova, EvgeniiaMalik, KhameliaIqbal Malik, NajmaMammadzada, GulayMandalia, BilveshMarazziti, DonatellaMarčinko, DarkoMartinez, StephanieMatiekus, EimantasMejia, GabrielaMemon, Roha SaeedMeza Martínez, Xarah ElenneMickevičiūtė, DaliaMilev, RoumenMohammed, MuftauMolina-López, AlejandroMorozov, Petr
Source
Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology. 58(9)
Subject
Anxiety
COVID-19
Conspiracy theories
Depression
Health professionals
Mental disorders
Mental health
Psychiatry
Suicidality
Humans
Female
Male
Mental Health
Suicidal Ideation
Health Personnel
Brain Disorders
Behavioral and Social Science
Serious Mental Illness
Mind and Body
Prevention
Good Health and Well Being
Clinical Sciences
Psychology
Cognitive Sciences
Language
Abstract
IntroductionThe current study aimed to investigate the rates of anxiety, clinical depression, and suicidality and their changes in health professionals during the COVID-19 outbreak.Materials and methodsThe data came from the larger COMET-G study. The study sample includes 12,792 health professionals from 40 countries (62.40% women aged 39.76 ± 11.70; 36.81% men aged 35.91 ± 11.00 and 0.78% non-binary gender aged 35.15 ± 13.03). Distress and clinical depression were identified with the use of a previously developed cut-off and algorithm, respectively.Statistical analysisDescriptive statistics were calculated. Chi-square tests, multiple forward stepwise linear regression analyses, and Factorial Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) tested relations among variables.ResultsClinical depression was detected in 13.16% with male doctors and 'non-binary genders' having the lowest rates (7.89 and 5.88% respectively) and 'non-binary gender' nurses and administrative staff had the highest (37.50%); distress was present in 15.19%. A significant percentage reported a deterioration in mental state, family dynamics, and everyday lifestyle. Persons with a history of mental disorders had higher rates of current depression (24.64% vs. 9.62%; p