Original title: Epidemiology of mental health problems in COVID-19: a review
This review looks at research on mental health during COVID-19. It reports problems such as anxiety, depression, stress, sleep disorders, and suicidal behavior. These problems were linked to many factors, including age, income, contact with the virus, news exposure, and social support. The patterns differed among the general public, people with COVID-19, and healthcare providers.
Imagine a town trying to understand who is struggling during a long emergency. The same event can affect residents, people who become ill, and workers helping them in different ways. In this paper, those groups are the town’s different residents, and the review gathers reports of the mental health problems they faced and factors linked to them.
People facing COVID-19 were also at risk of psychological problems, and the kinds of problems varied across groups. Knowing who is affected and what factors are linked to distress can help health services plan support during a pandemic.
The abstract does not give study counts, specific estimates of how common each problem was, or details about how the reviewed articles were selected. It says the evidence is heterogeneous and calls for future research on differences between groups and the timing of mental health problems.
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Epidemiology of mental health problems in COVID-19: a review — Md Mahbub Hossain, Samia Tasnim, Abida Sultana et al. — F1000Research — doi:10.12688/f1000research.24457.1
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