Back to Search Start Over

Results of the COVID-19 mental health international for the health professionals (COMET-HP) study: depression, suicidal tendencies and conspiracism

Authors :
Konstantinos N. Fountoulakis
Grigorios N. Karakatsoulis
Seri Abraham
Kristina Adorjan
Helal Uddin Ahmed
Renato D. Alarcón
Kiyomi Arai
Sani Salihu Auwal
Julio Bobes
Teresa Bobes-Bascaran
Julie Bourgin-Duchesnay
Cristina Ana Bredicean
Laurynas Bukelskis
Akaki Burkadze
Indira Indiana Cabrera Abud
Ruby Castilla-Puentes
Marcelo Cetkovich
Hector Colon-Rivera
Ricardo Corral
Carla Cortez-Vergara
Piirika Crepin
Domenico de Berardis
Sergio Zamora Delgado
David de Lucena
Avinash de Sousa
Ramona di Stefano
Seetal Dodd
Livia Priyanka Elek
Anna Elissa
Berta Erdelyi-Hamza
Gamze Erzin
Martin J. Etchevers
Peter Falkai
Adriana Farcas
Ilya Fedotov
Viktoriia Filatova
Nikolaos K. Fountoulakis
Iryna Frankova
Francesco Franza
Pedro Frias
Tatiana Galako
Cristian J. Garay
Leticia Garcia-Álvarez
Paz García-Portilla
Xenia Gonda
Tomasz M. Gondek
Daniela Morera González
Hilary Gould
Paolo Grandinetti
Arturo Grau
Violeta Groudeva
Michal Hagin
Takayuki Harada
Tasdik M. Hasan
Nurul Azreen Hashim
Jan Hilbig
Sahadat Hossain
Rossitza Iakimova
Mona Ibrahim
Felicia Iftene
Yulia Ignatenko
Matias Irarrazaval
Zaliha Ismail
Jamila Ismayilova
Asaf Jacobs
Miro Jakovljević
Nenad Jakšić
Afzal Javed
Helin Yilmaz Kafali
Sagar Karia
Olga Kazakova
Doaa Khalifa
Olena Khaustova
Steve Koh
Svetlana Kopishinskaia
Korneliia Kosenko
Sotirios A. Koupidis
Illes Kovacs
Barbara Kulig
Alisha Lalljee
Justine Liewig
Abdul Majid
Evgeniia Malashonkova
Khamelia Malik
Najma Iqbal Malik
Gulay Mammadzada
Bilvesh Mandalia
Donatella Marazziti
Darko Marčinko
Stephanie Martinez
Eimantas Matiekus
Gabriela Mejia
Roha Saeed Memon
Xarah Elenne Meza Martínez
Dalia Mickevičiūtė
Roumen Milev
Muftau Mohammed
Alejandro Molina-López
Petr Morozov
Nuru Suleiman Muhammad
Filip Mustač
Mika S. Naor
Amira Nassieb
Alvydas Navickas
Tarek Okasha
Milena Pandova
Anca-Livia Panfil
Liliya Panteleeva
Ion Papava
Mikaella E. Patsali
Alexey Pavlichenko
Bojana Pejuskovic
Mariana Pinto da Costa
Mikhail Popkov
Dina Popovic
Nor Jannah Nasution Raduan
Francisca Vargas Ramírez
Elmars Rancans
Salmi Razali
Federico Rebok
Anna Rewekant
Elena Ninoska Reyes Flores
María Teresa Rivera-Encinas
Pilar A. Saiz
Manuel Sánchez de Carmona
David Saucedo Martínez
Jo Anne Saw
Görkem Saygili
Patricia Schneidereit
Bhumika Shah
Tomohiro Shirasaka
Ketevan Silagadze
Satti Sitanggang
Oleg Skugarevsky
Anna Spikina
Sridevi Sira Mahalingappa
Maria Stoyanova
Anna Szczegielniak
Simona Claudia Tamasan
Giuseppe Tavormina
Maurilio Giuseppe Maria Tavormina
Pavlos N. Theodorakis
Mauricio Tohen
Eva-Maria Tsapakis
Dina Tukhvatullina
Irfan Ullah
Ratnaraj Vaidya
Johann M. Vega-Dienstmaier
Jelena Vrublevska
Olivera Vukovic
Olga Vysotska
Natalia Widiasih
Anna Yashikhina
Panagiotis E. Prezerakos
Michael Berk
Sarah Levaj
Daria Smirnova
Fountoulakis, Konstantinos N [0000-0001-5503-0811]
N. Karakatsoulis, Grigorios [0000-0002-4786-1217]
Castilla-Puentes, Ruby [0000-0002-0597-6155]
Fountoulakis, Nikolaos K [0000-0002-5965-707X]
Smirnova, Daria [0000-0002-9591-4918]
Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Source :
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology.
Publication Year :
2023
Publisher :
Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2023.

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. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany.

Details

ISSN :
14339285 and 09337954
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....135fb992fb6e02d468d342a778646d8f