TY - JOUR PY - 2023// TI - Results of the COVID-19 mental health international for the health professionals (COMET-HP) study: depression, suicidal tendencies and conspiracism JO - Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology A1 - N Fountoulakis, Konstantinos A1 - N Karakatsoulis, Grigorios A1 - Abraham, Seri A1 - Adorjan, Kristina A1 - Ahmed, Helal Uddin A1 - Alarcón, Renato D. A1 - Arai, Kiyomi A1 - Auwal, Sani Salihu A1 - Bobes, Julio A1 - Bobes-Bascaran, Teresa A1 - Bourgin-Duchesnay, Julie A1 - Bredicean, Cristina Ana A1 - Bukelskis, Laurynas A1 - Burkadze, Akaki A1 - Cabrera Abud, Indira Indiana A1 - Castilla-Puentes, Ruby A1 - Cetkovich, Marcelo A1 - Colon-Rivera, Hector A1 - Corral, Ricardo A1 - Cortez-Vergara, Carla A1 - Crepin, Piirika A1 - De Berardis, Domenico A1 - Zamora Delgado, Sergio A1 - De Lucena, David A1 - De Sousa, Avinash A1 - Di Stefano, Ramona A1 - Dodd, Seetal A1 - Elek, Livia Priyanka A1 - Elissa, Anna A1 - Erdelyi-Hamza, Berta A1 - Erzin, Gamze A1 - Etchevers, Martin J. A1 - Falkai, Peter A1 - Farcas, Adriana A1 - Fedotov, Ilya A1 - Filatova, Viktoriia A1 - Fountoulakis, Nikolaos K. A1 - Frankova, Iryna A1 - Franza, Francesco A1 - Frias, Pedro A1 - Galako, Tatiana A1 - Garay, Cristian J. A1 - García-Alvarez, Leticia A1 - García-Portilla, Paz A1 - Gonda, Xenia A1 - Gondek, Tomasz M. A1 - Morera González, Daniela A1 - Gould, Hilary A1 - Grandinetti, Paolo A1 - Grau, Arturo A1 - Groudeva, Violeta A1 - Hagin, Michal A1 - Harada, Takayuki A1 - Hasan, Tasdik M. A1 - Azreen Hashim, Nurul A1 - Hilbig, Jan A1 - Hossain, Sahadat A1 - Iakimova, Rossitza A1 - Ibrahim, Mona A1 - Iftene, Felicia A1 - Ignatenko, Yulia A1 - Irarrázaval, Matías A1 - Ismail, Zaliha A1 - Ismayilova, Jamila A1 - Jacobs, Asaf A1 - Jakovljević, Miro A1 - Jakšić, Nenad A1 - Javed, Afzal A1 - Yilmaz Kafali, Helin A1 - Karia, Sagar A1 - Kazakova, Olga A1 - Khalifa, Doaa A1 - Khaustova, Olena A1 - Koh, Steve A1 - Kopishinskaia, Svetlana A1 - Kosenko, Korneliia A1 - Koupidis, Sotirios A. A1 - Kovacs, Illes A1 - Kulig, Barbara A1 - Lalljee, Alisha A1 - Liewig, Justine A1 - Majid, Abdul A1 - Malashonkova, Evgeniia A1 - Malik, Khamelia A1 - Iqbal Malik, Najma A1 - Mammadzada, Gulay A1 - Mandalia, Bilvesh A1 - Marazziti, Donatella A1 - Marcinko, Darko A1 - Martinez, Stephanie A1 - Matiekus, Eimantas A1 - Mejia, Gabriela A1 - Memon, Roha Saeed A1 - Meza Martínez, Xarah Elenne A1 - Mickevičiūtė, Dalia A1 - Milev, Roumen A1 - Mohammed, Muftau A1 - Molina-Lopez, Alejandro A1 - Morozov, Petr A1 - Muhammad, Nuru Suleiman A1 - Mustač, Filip A1 - Naor, Mika S. A1 - Nassieb, Amira A1 - Navickas, Alvydas A1 - Okasha, Tarek A1 - Pandova, Milena A1 - Panfil, Anca-Livia A1 - Panteleeva, Liliya A1 - Papava, Ion A1 - Patsali, Mikaella E. A1 - Pavlichenko, Alexey A1 - Pejuskovic, Bojana A1 - Pinto da Costa, Mariana A1 - Popkov, Mikhail A1 - Popovic, Dina A1 - Raduan, Nor Jannah Nasution A1 - Vargas Ramírez, Francisca A1 - Rancāns, Elmars A1 - Razali, Salmi A1 - Rebok, Federico A1 - Rewekant, Anna A1 - Reyes Flores, Elena Ninoska A1 - Rivera-Encinas, María Teresa A1 - Saiz, Pilar A. A1 - Sánchez de Carmona, Manuel A1 - Saucedo Martínez, David A1 - Saw, Jo Anne A1 - Saygili, Görkem A1 - Schneidereit, Patricia A1 - Shah, Bhumika A1 - Shirasaka, Tomohiro A1 - Silagadze, Ketevan A1 - Sitanggang, Satti A1 - Skugarevsky, Oleg A1 - Spikina, Anna A1 - Mahalingappa, Sridevi Sira A1 - Stoyanova, Maria A1 - Szczegielniak, Anna A1 - Tamasan, Simona Claudia A1 - Tavormina, Giuseppe A1 - Tavormina, Maurilio Giuseppe Maria A1 - Theodorakis, Pavlos N. A1 - Tohen, Mauricio A1 - Tsapakis, Eva-Maria A1 - Tukhvatullina, Dina A1 - Ullah, Irfan A1 - Vaidya, Ratnaraj A1 - Vega-Dienstmaier, Johann M. A1 - Vrublevska, Jelena A1 - Vuković, Olivera A1 - Vysotska, Olga A1 - Widiasih, Natalia A1 - Yashikhina, Anna A1 - Prezerakos, Panagiotis E. A1 - Berk, Michael A1 - Levaj, Sarah A1 - Smirnova, Daria SP - ePub EP - ePub VL - ePub IS - ePub N2 - 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.

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LA - en SN - 0933-7954 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00127-023-02438-8 ID - ref1 ER -