Wang, Shu Zhang, Yuan Guan, Yuguang Ding, Wei Meng, Yao Hu, Huiting Liu, Zhenhua Zeng, Xianwei Wang, Minzhong
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Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
Purpose To evaluate the prevalence of and risk factors associated with anxiety, depression, and insomnia symptoms during the return-to-work period of coronavirus disease 2019 in China. Methods The authors conducted a large-scale, nationwide, multicenter, cross-sectional study in China. A population-based quota and snowball sampling were designed to...
Hou, Wai Kai Lee, Tatia Mei-Chun Liang, Li Li, Tsz Wai Liu, Huinan Ettman, Catherine K. Galea, Sandro
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Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
Purpose To examine the joint associations of civil unrest and COVID-19 with probable anxiety and depression during the first half of 2020 in Hong Kong. Associations were compared between persons with low or high assets. Methods A population-representative sample of 4011 Hong Kong Chinese residents aged 15 years or older were recruited between Febru...
Mergel, Eduard Schützwohl, Matthias
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Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
Purpose With the rapid spread of COVID-19 and the restrictions imposed in many parts of the world, there is growing concern about its impact on mental health. This longitudinal study investigated the social participation, social inclusion and psychological well-being in adults with and without mental disorders before the beginning of the pandemic, ...
Amin, Ridwanul Rahman, Syed Tinghög, Petter Helgesson, Magnus Runeson, Bo Björkenstam, Emma Qin, Ping Mehlum, Lars Holmes, Emily A Mittendorfer-Rutz, Ellenor
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Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
There is a lack of research on whether healthcare use before and after a suicide attempt differs between refugees and the host population. We aimed to investigate if the patterns of specialised (inpatient and specialised outpatient) psychiatric and somatic healthcare use, 3 years before and after a suicide attempt, differ between refugees and the S...
Myers, Bronwyn Bantjes, Jason Lochner, Christine Mortier, Phillippe Kessler, Ronald C. Stein, Dan J.
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Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
Purpose Childhood maltreatment elevates risk for common mental disorders (CMDs) during late adolescence and adulthood. Although CMDs are highly prevalent among university students, few studies have examined the relationship between childhood maltreatment and 12 month CMDs in a low- to middle-income countries. This paper describes the prevalence of ...
Markosian, Christopher Khachadourian, Vahe Kennedy, Cheryl A.
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Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
Armenia has been in a conflict with its neighbor, Azerbaijan, since 1988. Civilians in Tavush Province are regularly affected by ceasefire violations along the armed border with recent escalations further threatening the population’s safety. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, concerns regarding the mental health of border village residents in A...
Rosenberg, Molly Luetke, Maya Hensel, Devon Kianersi, Sina Fu, Tsung-chieh Herbenick, Debby
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Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
Purpose To estimate the prevalence of depression and loneliness during the US COVID-19 response, and examine their associations with frequency of social and sexual connections. Methods We conducted an online cross-sectional survey of a nationally representative sample of American adults ( n = 1010), aged 18–94, running from April 10–20, 2020. We as...
Protsenko, Maria Kerkelä, M Miettunen, J Auvinen, J Järvelin, M-R Gissler, M Veijola, J
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Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
The lifespan of people with severe mental illness (SMI) is shorter compared to the general population. There might be common familial pathway leading to a high co-occurrence of somatic disorders and SMI. To study this we explored the long-term mortality for natural causes in the offspring of people with SMI. Participants were members of the Norther...
Bell, Vaughan Wade, Dorothy
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Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
Purpose The SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19 pandemic has raised concerns about the potential mental health impact on frontline clinical staff. However, given that poor mental health is common in acute medical staff, we aimed to estimate the additional burden of work involving high exposure to infected patients. Methods We report a rapid review, meta-analysis...
Yang, Shuyue Lin, Haijiang Zhu, Jianfu Chen, Yue Wang, Na Zhao, Qi Fu, Chaowei
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Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
Purpose To determine the prevalence of depression and anxiety and associated factors among returning workers with different epidemic experience in East China. Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted among 2435 employees from the enterprises located in Deqing (low-risk epidemic area) and Taizhou (high-risk epidemic area) of East China in March...
