@article{ref1,
title="Results of the COVID-19 mental health international for the health professionals (COMET-HP) study: depression, suicidal tendencies and conspiracism",
journal="Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology",
year="2023",
author="N Fountoulakis, Konstantinos and N Karakatsoulis, Grigorios and Abraham, Seri and Adorjan, Kristina and Ahmed, Helal Uddin and Alarcón, Renato D. and Arai, Kiyomi and Auwal, Sani Salihu and Bobes, Julio and Bobes-Bascaran, Teresa and Bourgin-Duchesnay, Julie and Bredicean, Cristina Ana and Bukelskis, Laurynas and Burkadze, Akaki and Cabrera Abud, Indira Indiana and Castilla-Puentes, Ruby and Cetkovich, Marcelo and Colon-Rivera, Hector and Corral, Ricardo and Cortez-Vergara, Carla and Crepin, Piirika and De Berardis, Domenico and Zamora Delgado, Sergio and De Lucena, David and De Sousa, Avinash and Di Stefano, Ramona and Dodd, Seetal and Elek, Livia Priyanka and Elissa, Anna and Erdelyi-Hamza, Berta and Erzin, Gamze and Etchevers, Martin J. and Falkai, Peter and Farcas, Adriana and Fedotov, Ilya and Filatova, Viktoriia and Fountoulakis, Nikolaos K. and Frankova, Iryna and Franza, Francesco and Frias, Pedro and Galako, Tatiana and Garay, Cristian J. and García-Alvarez, Leticia and García-Portilla, Paz and Gonda, Xenia and Gondek, Tomasz M. and Morera González, Daniela and Gould, Hilary and Grandinetti, Paolo and Grau, Arturo and Groudeva, Violeta and Hagin, Michal and Harada, Takayuki and Hasan, Tasdik M. and Azreen Hashim, Nurul and Hilbig, Jan and Hossain, Sahadat and Iakimova, Rossitza and Ibrahim, Mona and Iftene, Felicia and Ignatenko, Yulia and Irarrázaval, Matías and Ismail, Zaliha and Ismayilova, Jamila and Jacobs, Asaf and Jakovljević, Miro and Jakšić, Nenad and Javed, Afzal and Yilmaz Kafali, Helin and Karia, Sagar and Kazakova, Olga and Khalifa, Doaa and Khaustova, Olena and Koh, Steve and Kopishinskaia, Svetlana and Kosenko, Korneliia and Koupidis, Sotirios A. and Kovacs, Illes and Kulig, Barbara and Lalljee, Alisha and Liewig, Justine and Majid, Abdul and Malashonkova, Evgeniia and Malik, Khamelia and Iqbal Malik, Najma and Mammadzada, Gulay and Mandalia, Bilvesh and Marazziti, Donatella and Marcinko, Darko and Martinez, Stephanie and Matiekus, Eimantas and Mejia, Gabriela and Memon, Roha Saeed and Meza Martínez, Xarah Elenne and Mickevičiūtė, Dalia and Milev, Roumen and Mohammed, Muftau and Molina-Lopez, Alejandro and Morozov, Petr and Muhammad, Nuru Suleiman and Mustač, Filip and Naor, Mika S. and Nassieb, Amira and Navickas, Alvydas and Okasha, Tarek and Pandova, Milena and Panfil, Anca-Livia and Panteleeva, Liliya and Papava, Ion and Patsali, Mikaella E. and Pavlichenko, Alexey and Pejuskovic, Bojana and Pinto da Costa, Mariana and Popkov, Mikhail and Popovic, Dina and Raduan, Nor Jannah Nasution and Vargas Ramírez, Francisca and Rancāns, Elmars and Razali, Salmi and Rebok, Federico and Rewekant, Anna and Reyes Flores, Elena Ninoska and Rivera-Encinas, María Teresa and Saiz, Pilar A. and Sánchez de Carmona, Manuel and Saucedo Martínez, David and Saw, Jo Anne and Saygili, Görkem and Schneidereit, Patricia and Shah, Bhumika and Shirasaka, Tomohiro and Silagadze, Ketevan and Sitanggang, Satti and Skugarevsky, Oleg and Spikina, Anna and Mahalingappa, Sridevi Sira and Stoyanova, Maria and Szczegielniak, Anna and Tamasan, Simona Claudia and Tavormina, Giuseppe and Tavormina, Maurilio Giuseppe Maria and Theodorakis, Pavlos N. and Tohen, Mauricio and Tsapakis, Eva-Maria and Tukhvatullina, Dina and Ullah, Irfan and Vaidya, Ratnaraj and Vega-Dienstmaier, Johann M. and Vrublevska, Jelena and Vuković, Olivera and Vysotska, Olga and Widiasih, Natalia and Yashikhina, Anna and Prezerakos, Panagiotis E. and Berk, Michael and Levaj, Sarah and Smirnova, Daria",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
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. <br><br>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. <br><br>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). <br><br>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.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0933-7954",
doi="10.1007/s00127-023-02438-8",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00127-023-02438-8"
}