{"id":7317,"date":"2020-06-03T13:13:59","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T20:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7317"},"modified":"2021-03-24T13:14:43","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T20:14:43","slug":"covid-19-pandemic-and-mental-health-consequences-systematic-review-of-the-current-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/03\/covid-19-pandemic-and-mental-health-consequences-systematic-review-of-the-current-evidence\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Pandemic and Mental Health Consequences: Systematic Review of\u00a0the Current\u00a0Evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In a systematic review of the mental health consequences of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, Vindegaard and\u00a0Benros\u00a0found only 2 studies\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">that\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">evaluated patients with confirmed COVID-19 infection. These studies reported a high level of post-traumatic stress symptoms (96%) and depressive symptoms among COVID-19 patients.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The remaining 41 studies focused on the indirect effects of the pandemic on healthcare workers, the general public, and on those with existing mental health diagnoses.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In the general public, w<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">omen, individuals\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">with\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">poor<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">self-<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">rated\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">health<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0status,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">those with\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">relatives with COVID-19 were\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">more likely to\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">self-report anxiety<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0depression symptoms<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0or low psychological well-being.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Vindegaard and\u00a0Benros. (May 30,\u00a02020).\u00a0COVID-19 Pandemic and Mental Health Consequences: Systematic Review of\u00a0the Current\u00a0Evidence. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.bbi.2020.05.048\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.bbi.2020.05.048<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a systematic review of the mental health consequences of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, Vindegaard and\u00a0Benros\u00a0found only 2 studies\u00a0that\u00a0evaluated patients with confirmed COVID-19 infection. These studies reported a high level of post-traumatic stress symptoms (96%) and depressive symptoms among COVID-19 patients.\u00a0 The remaining 41 studies focused on the indirect effects of the pandemic on healthcare workers,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/03\/covid-19-pandemic-and-mental-health-consequences-systematic-review-of-the-current-evidence\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[18],"class_list":["post-7317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-mental-health-and-personal-impact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7318,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7317\/revisions\/7318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7317"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}