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Title: Depression and anxiety during and after episodes of COVID-19 in the community
Authors: Alacevich, C
Thalmann, I
Nicodemo, C
de Lusignan, S
Petrou, S
Keywords: anxiety;depression;infectious diseases;public health;risk factors;signs and symptoms
Issue Date: 22-May-2023
Publisher: Springer Nature
Citation: Alacevich, C. et al. (2023) 'Depression and anxiety during and after episodes of COVID-19 in the community', Scientific Reports, 13 (1), 8257, pp. 1 - 8. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-33642-w.
Abstract: Understanding the connection between physical and mental health with evidence-based research is important to inform and support targeted screening and early treatment. The objective of this study was to document the co-occurrence of physical and mental health conditions during and after the experience of symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 illness episodes. Drawing from a national symptoms' surveillance survey conducted in the UK in 2020, this study shows that individuals with symptomatic forms of SARS-CoV-2 (identified by anosmia with either fever, breathlessness or cough) presented significantly higher odds of experiencing moderate and severe anxiety (2.41, CI 2.01–2.90) and depression (3.64, CI 3.06–4.32). Respondents who recovered from physical SARS-CoV-2 symptoms also experienced higher odds of anxiety and depression in comparison to respondents who never experienced symptoms. The findings are robust to alternative estimation models that compare individuals with the same socioeconomic and demographic characteristics and who experienced the same local and contextual factors such as mobility and social restrictions. The findings have important implications for the screening and detection of mental health disorders in primary care settings. They also suggest the need to design and test interventions to address mental health during and after physical illness episodes.
Description: Data availability: The data that support the findings of this study are available from EMIS Health in collaboration with the University of Oxford and the UK Royal College of General Practitioners but restrictions apply to the availability of these data, which were used under license agreement for the current study, and so are not publicly available. Anonymized data are however available from the authors upon reasonable request and with permission of EMIS Health, the University of Oxford, and the UK Royal College of General Practitioners.
Supplementary Information is available online at: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-33642-w#Sec7 .
URI: https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/30509
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-33642-w
Other Identifiers: ORCiD: Catia Nicodemo https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5490-9576
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