Were anxiety, depression and psychological distress associated with local mortality rates during COVID-19 outbreak in Italy? Findings from the COMET study

Carrà, Giuseppe; Crocamo, Cristina; Bartoli, Francesco; Riboldi, Ilaria; Sampogna, Gaia; Luciano, Mario; Albert, Umberto; Carmassi, Claudia; Cirulli, Francesca; Dell’Osso, Bernardo; Menculini, Giulia; Nanni, Maria Giulia; Pompili, Maurizio; Sani, Gabriele; Volpe, Umberto; Fiorillo, Andrea

doi:10.1016/j.jpsychires.2022.06.018

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“…Rather than negating the significant mental health concern for psychiatric patients represented by Covid-19 ( Carrà et al, 2022 ; Hao et al, 2020 ; Taquet et al, 2020 ; Zhang et al, 2020 ), this could possibly reflect a change of clinical approach and work style of emergency psychiatrists during the pandemic. In fact, clinicians may have tried to avoid admittance of less severe cases in order to preserve the limited number of beds for the most severe patients and also tried to reduce the risk of in-hospital SARS-CoV-2 outbreaks by limiting the number of people present at the same time into hospital wards.…”

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Socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of SARS-CoV-2-positive psychiatric in-patients: A case-control study in the psychiatric wards of a Great Metropolitan Hospital in Milan

Percudani

Panariello

Deste

et al. 2023

Psychiatry Research

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Socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of SARS-CoV-2-positive psychiatric in-patients: A case-control study in the psychiatric wards of a Great Metropolitan Hospital in Milan

Percudani

Panariello

Deste

et al. 2023

Psychiatry Research

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“…Even though the clinical picture of the COVID-19 disease was considerably milder in younger than in older people in all the variants of the disease, younger people have almost uniformly shown to be disproportionally affected by mental health consequences of the pandemic [6][7][8].…”

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“…A large number of surveys have been carried out to determine the impact of the pandemic on mental health [4,5]. The importance of the viral infection with SARS-CoV-2 and pandemic-related containment measures on the mental health of the general population were studied across the world, mostly in the early phases of the pandemic [6][7][8][9].…”

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Depression, Anxiety, Stress, and Suicidality Levels in Young Adults Increased Two Years into the COVID-19 Pandemic

Matić

Pregelj

Sadikov

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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Background. The severity of both the COVID-19 clinical picture and confinement measures in Slovenia was higher during the initial phase of the pandemic in 2020 than during the Omicron wave in 2022. This could lead us to expect a higher level of distress during the initial phase. On the other hand, prolonged stress can have a detrimental effect on mental health. This study aimed to explore how the prolonged stress of the COVID-19 pandemic and the accompanying changes affected the mental health of young adults in Slovenia. We analyzed and compared the levels of depression, anxiety, stress, and suicidal ideation in young adults during the initial phase of the pandemic and the Omicron wave, as well as between the COVID-19-infected and non-infected individuals. Methods. An online survey was used to survey 587 young adults in the first wave (July–December 2020) and 511 in the Omicron wave (January–February 2022). Levels of depression, anxiety, stress, and suicidal ideation were compared using Mann–Whitney U test. Results. Results show that the Omicron wave significantly worsened depression, anxiety, stress, and suicidal ideation. Young adults who had tested positive for COVID-19 reported no worse or only slightly worse mental health than those who never tested positive. Conclusions. The current study provides new evidence about the mental health of young adults during the Omicron wave. Our results show that two years into the pandemic, they expressed more negative emotions and suicidal thoughts than at the beginning.

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“…This has been described until now in different aspects. On the one hand, communication about the state of the pandemic has influenced the mental health status of the population [ 28 ], with health communication becoming one of the most discussed topics in the media. On the other hand, mental health communication itself has changed in relation to the pandemic.…”

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Spanish media coverage of youth mental health issues during the COVID-19 pandemic

Carrasco,

Saucier,

Whitley

2023

BMC Psychiatry

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Background The media portrayal of mental health is relevant in shaping the population’s attitudes towards mental disorders. However, there is little information about the representation of young mental health issues in the Spanish-language press, especially in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The general objective of this study was to analyse the tone and content of Spanish newspaper articles about mental disorders in youth during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods We collected media articles from the 10 most read news sources over a 6 month period (January-June 2021). These articles were coded for content using a standardised codebook, followed by an inductive thematic analysis. A total of 205 news items were evaluated. Results Results showed that the majority of the news items had an overall positive tone (68.3%), only 5.4% were stigmatising and only 7.3% were related to violence. However, few articles offered help seeking information (6%), adolescents were rarely quoted (14%) and children were never quoted. Substantial differences are described in terms of age, gender and disorder. The thematic analysis led to three emergent themes: (i) violence and victimisation; (ii) the COVID-19 pandemic; and (iii) technology and social media. Conclusions The percentage of news in the Spanish media that refer to young people’s mental health in a stigmatising way or in a way associated with violence is very low. Furthermore, the COVID-19 pandemic may have promoted more positive discussion about youth mental health. However, major challenges remain to be addressed, as patients are seldom quoted, very few articles offer help-seeking information, and a narrative of victimisation without appropriate discussion of resilience regularly occurs.

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Were anxiety, depression and psychological distress associated with local mortality rates during COVID-19 outbreak in Italy? Findings from the COMET study

Cited by 13 publications

References 51 publications

Socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of SARS-CoV-2-positive psychiatric in-patients: A case-control study in the psychiatric wards of a Great Metropolitan Hospital in Milan

Socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of SARS-CoV-2-positive psychiatric in-patients: A case-control study in the psychiatric wards of a Great Metropolitan Hospital in Milan

Depression, Anxiety, Stress, and Suicidality Levels in Young Adults Increased Two Years into the COVID-19 Pandemic

Spanish media coverage of youth mental health issues during the COVID-19 pandemic

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