Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on mental health in the general population: A systematic review
By Jiaqi Xiong, Orly Lipsitz, F. Nasri, L. Lui, H. Gill, Lee Phan, D. Chen-Li, M. Iacobucci, R. Ho, Amna Majeed and 1 more. Journal of Affective Disorders, 2020
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Background As a major virus outbreak in the 21st century, the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led to unprecedented hazards to mental health globally. While psychological support is being provided to patients and healthcare workers, the general public's mental health requires significant attention as well. This systematic review aims to synthesize extant literature that reports on the effects of COVID-19 on psychological outcomes of the general population and its associated risk factors. Methods A systematic search was conducted on PubMed, Embase, Medline, Web of Science, and Scopus from inception to 17 May 2020 following the PRISMA guidelines. A manual search on Google Scholar was performed to identify additional relevant studies. Articles were selected based on the predetermined eligibility criteria. Results: Relatively high rates of symptoms of anxiety (6.33% to 50.9%), depression (14.6% to 48.3%), post-traumatic stress disorder (7% to 53.8%), psychological distress (34.43% to 38%), and stress (8.1% to 81.9%) are reported in the general population during the COVID-19 pandemic in China, Spain, Italy, Iran, the US, Turkey, Nepal, and Denmark. Risk factors associated with distress measures include female gender, younger age group (≤40 years), presence of chronic/psychiatric illnesses, unemployment, student status, and frequent exposure to social media/news concerning COVID-19. Limitations A significant degree of heterogeneity was noted across studies. Conclusions The COVID-19 pandemic is associated with highly significant levels of psychological distress that, in many cases, would meet the threshold for clinical relevance. Mitigating the hazardous effects of COVID-19 on mental health is an international public health priority.
Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Neurology, Oncology
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- The impact of COVID-19 lockdown on child and adolescent mental health: systematic review (2021, background): “Previous systematic reviews and meta-analyses have looked at the impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of the general population [108] and healthcare workers [31].”
- High Rates of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Its Association with Conspiracy Beliefs: A Study in Jordan and Kuwait among Other Arab Countries (2021, background): “The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic represents a state of fear, anxiety and uncertainty, which is considered a suitable environment for conspiracies to disseminate in [37,41,42,45,46].”
- Fatigue and cognitive impairment in Post-COVID-19 Syndrome: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2021, positive): “…it is firmly established that the incidence of depressive and anxious symptoms in the general population has increased since the pandemic onset (Xiong et al., 2020); fatigue and cognitive impairment may be consequences of chronic stress and/or depression resulting from social and economic…”
- Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Big Five Personality on Subjective and Psychological Well-Being (2020, neutral): “Despite an emerging literature on the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on well-being (for reviews, see Sher, 2020; Xiong et al., 2020), many gaps in understanding remain.”
- A systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal cohort studies comparing mental health before versus during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 (2021, neutral): “There has been no systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal cohort studies with pre-pandemic measurement of mental health (17-19).”