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10.1007/s00127-023-02438-8
Title: | Results of the COVID-19 mental health international for the health professionals (COMET-HP) study : depression, suicidal tendencies and conspiracism |
Authors: | N Fountoulakis, Konstantinos N Karakatsoulis, Grigorios Abraham, Seri Adorjan, Kristina Ahmed, Helal Uddin Alarcón, Renato D Arai, Kiyomi Auwal, Sani Salihu Bobes, Julio Bobes-Bascaran, Teresa Bourgin-Duchesnay, Julie Bredicean, Cristina Ana Bukelskis, Laurynas Burkadze, Akaki Cabrera Abud, Indira Indiana Castilla-Puentes, Ruby Cetkovich, Marcelo Colon-Rivera, Hector Corral, Ricardo Cortez-Vergara, Carla Crepin, Piirika de Berardis, Domenico Zamora Delgado, Sergio de Lucena, David de Sousa, Avinash di Stefano, Ramona Dodd, Seetal Elek, Livia Priyanka Elissa, Anna Erdelyi-Hamza, Berta Erzin, Gamze Etchevers, Martin J Falkai, Peter Farcas, Adriana Fedotov, Ilya Filatova, Viktoriia Fountoulakis, Nikolaos K Frankova, Iryna Franza, Francesco Frias, Pedro Galako, Tatiana Garay, Cristian J Garcia-Álvarez, Leticia García-Portilla, Paz Gonda, Xenia Gondek, Tomasz M Morera González, Daniela Gould, Hilary Grandinetti, Paolo Grau, Arturo Groudeva, Violeta Hagin, Michal Harada, Takayuki Hasan, Tasdik M Azreen Hashim, Nurul Hilbig, Jan Hossain, Sahadat Iakimova, Rossitza Ibrahim, Mona Iftene, Felicia Ignatenko, Yulia Irarrazaval, Matias Ismail, Zaliha Ismayilova, Jamila Jacobs, Asaf Jakovljević, Miro Jakšić, Nenad Javed, Afzal Yilmaz Kafali, Helin Karia, Sagar Kazakova, Olga Khalifa, Doaa Khaustova, Olena Koh, Steve Kopishinskaia, Svetlana Kosenko, Korneliia Koupidis, Sotirios A Kovacs, Illes Kulig, Barbara Lalljee, Alisha Liewig, Justine Majid, Abdul Malashonkova, Evgeniia Malik, Khamelia Iqbal Malik, Najma Mammadzada, Gulay Mandalia, Bilvesh Marazziti, Donatella Marčinko, Darko Martinez, Stephanie Matiekus, Eimantas Mejia, Gabriela Memon, Roha Saeed Meza Martínez, Xarah Elenne Mickevičiūtė, Dalia Milev, Roumen Mohammed, Muftau Molina-López, Alejandro Morozov, Petr Muhammad, Nuru Suleiman Mustač, Filip Naor, Mika S Nassieb, Amira Navickas, Alvydas Okasha, Tarek Pandova, Milena Panfil, Anca-Livia Panteleeva, Liliya Papava, Ion Patsali, Mikaella E Pavlichenko, Alexey Pejuskovic, Bojana Pinto da Costa, Mariana Popkov, Mikhail Popovic, Dina Raduan, Nor Jannah Nasution Vargas Ramírez, Francisca Rancans, Elmars Razali, Salmi Rebok, Federico Rewekant, Anna Reyes Flores, Elena Ninoska Rivera-Encinas, María Teresa Saiz, Pilar A Sánchez de Carmona, Manuel Saucedo Martínez, David Saw, Jo Anne Saygili, Görkem Schneidereit, Patricia Shah, Bhumika Shirasaka, Tomohiro Silagadze, Ketevan Sitanggang, Satti Skugarevsky, Oleg Spikina, Anna Mahalingappa, Sridevi Sira Stoyanova, Maria Szczegielniak, Anna Tamasan, Simona Claudia Tavormina, Giuseppe Tavormina, Maurilio Giuseppe Maria Theodorakis, Pavlos N Tohen, Mauricio Tsapakis, Eva-Maria Tukhvatullina, Dina Ullah, Irfan Vaidya, Ratnaraj Vega-Dienstmaier, Johann M Vrublevska, Jelena Vukovic, Olivera Vysotska, Olga Widiasih, Natalia Yashikhina, Anna Prezerakos, Panagiotis E Berk, Michael Levaj, Sarah Smirnova, Daria Department of Psychiatry and Narcology |
Keywords: | Anxiety;COVID-19;Conspiracy theories;Depression;Health professionals;Mental disorders;Mental health;Psychiatry;Suicidality;3.2 Clinical medicine;3.3 Health sciences;1.1. Scientific article indexed in Web of Science and/or Scopus database;SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being |
Issue Date: | Sep-2023 |
Citation: | N Fountoulakis , K , N Karakatsoulis , G , Abraham , S , Adorjan , K , Ahmed , H U , Alarcón , R D , Arai , K , Auwal , S S , Bobes , J , Bobes-Bascaran , T , Bourgin-Duchesnay , J , Bredicean , C A , Bukelskis , L , Burkadze , A , Cabrera Abud , I I , Castilla-Puentes , R , Cetkovich , M , Colon-Rivera , H , Corral , R , Cortez-Vergara , C , Crepin , P , de Berardis , D , Zamora Delgado , S , de Lucena , D , de Sousa , A , di Stefano , R , Dodd , S , Elek , L P , Elissa , A , Erdelyi-Hamza , B , Erzin , G , Etchevers , M J , Falkai , P , Farcas , A , Fedotov , I , Filatova , V , Fountoulakis , N K , Frankova , I , Franza , F , Frias , P , Galako , T , Garay , C J , Garcia-Álvarez , L , García-Portilla , P , Gonda , X , Gondek , T M , Morera González , D , Gould , H , Grandinetti , P , Grau , A , Groudeva , V , Hagin , M , Harada , T , Hasan , T M , Azreen Hashim , N , Hilbig , J , Hossain , S , Iakimova , R , Ibrahim , M , Iftene , F , Ignatenko , Y , Irarrazaval , M , Ismail , Z , Ismayilova , J , Jacobs , A , Jakovljević , M , Jakšić , N , Javed , A , Yilmaz Kafali , H , Karia , S , Kazakova , O , Khalifa , D , Khaustova , O , Koh , S , Kopishinskaia , S , Kosenko , K , Koupidis , S A , Kovacs , I , Kulig , B , Lalljee , A , Liewig , J , Majid , A , Malashonkova , E , Malik , K , Iqbal Malik , N , Mammadzada , G , Mandalia , B , Marazziti , D , Marčinko , D , Martinez , S , Matiekus , E , Mejia , G , Memon , R S , Meza Martínez , X E , Mickevičiūtė , D , Milev , R , Mohammed , M , Molina-López , A , Morozov , P , Muhammad , N S , Mustač , F , Naor , M S , Nassieb , A , Navickas , A , Okasha , T , Pandova , M , Panfil , A-L , Panteleeva , L , Papava , I , Patsali , M E , Pavlichenko , A , Pejuskovic , B , Pinto da Costa , M , Popkov , M , Popovic , D , Raduan , N J N , Vargas Ramírez , F , Rancans , E , Razali , S , Rebok , F , Rewekant , A , Reyes Flores , E N , Rivera-Encinas , M T , Saiz , P A , Sánchez de Carmona , M , Saucedo Martínez , D , Saw , J A , Saygili , G , Schneidereit , P , Shah , B , Shirasaka , T , Silagadze , K , Sitanggang , S , Skugarevsky , O , Spikina , A , Mahalingappa , S S , Stoyanova , M , Szczegielniak , A , Tamasan , S C , Tavormina , G , Tavormina , M G M , Theodorakis , P N , Tohen , M , Tsapakis , E-M , Tukhvatullina , D , Ullah , I , Vaidya , R , Vega-Dienstmaier , J M , Vrublevska , J , Vukovic , O , Vysotska , O , Widiasih , N , Yashikhina , A , Prezerakos , P E , Berk , M , Levaj , S & Smirnova , D 2023 , ' Results of the COVID-19 mental health international for the health professionals (COMET-HP) study : depression, suicidal tendencies and conspiracism ' , Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology , vol. 58 , no. 9 , pp. 1387-1410 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-023-02438-8 |
Abstract: | Introduction: The 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 methods: The 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 analysis: Descriptive statistics were calculated. Chi-square tests, multiple forward stepwise linear regression analyses, and Factorial Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) tested relations among variables. Results: Clinical 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 < 0.0001). Suicidal tendencies were at least doubled in terms of RASS scores. Approximately one-third of participants were accepting (at least to a moderate degree) a non-bizarre conspiracy. The highest Relative Risk (RR) to develop clinical depression was associated with a history of Bipolar disorder (RR = 4.23). Conclusions: The current study reported findings in health care professionals similar in magnitude and quality to those reported earlier in the general population although rates of clinical depression, suicidal tendencies, and adherence to conspiracy theories were much lower. However, the general model of factors interplay seems to be the same and this could be of practical utility since many of these factors are modifiable. |
Description: | Publisher Copyright: © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany. |
DOI: | 10.1007/s00127-023-02438-8 |
ISSN: | 0933-7954 |
Appears in Collections: | Research outputs from Pure / Zinātniskās darbības rezultāti no ZDIS Pure |
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