Results of the COVID-19 mental health international for the health professionals (COMET-HP) study: depression, suicidal tendencies and conspiracism

Konstantinos N. Fountoulakis; Grigorios N. Karakatsoulis; Seri Abraham; Kristina Adorjan; Helal Uddin Ahmed; Renato D. Alarcón; Kiyomi Arai; Sani Salihu Auwal; Julio Bobes; Teresa Bobes-Bascaran; Julie Bourgin-Duchesnay; Cristina Ana Bredicean; Laurynas Bukelskis; Akaki Burkadze; Indira Indiana Cabrera Abud; Ruby Castilla-Puentes; Marcelo Cetkovich; Hector Colon-Rivera; Ricardo Corral; Carla Cortez-Vergara; Piirika Crepin; Domenico de Berardis; Sergio Zamora Delgado; David de Lucena; Avinash de Sousa; Ramona di Stefano; Seetal Dodd; Livia Priyanka Elek; Anna Elissa; Berta Erdelyi-Hamza; Gamze Erzin; Martin J. Etchevers; Peter Falkai; Adriana Farcas; Ilya Fedotov; Viktoriia Filatova; Nikolaos K. Fountoulakis; Iryna Frankova; Francesco Franza; Pedro Frias; Tatiana Galako; Cristian J. Garay; Leticia Garcia-Álvarez; Paz García-Portilla; Xenia Gonda; Tomasz M. Gondek; Daniela Morera González; Hilary Gould; Paolo Grandinetti; Arturo Grau; Violeta Groudeva; Michal Hagin; Takayuki Harada; Tasdik M. Hasan; Nurul Azreen Hashim; Jan Hilbig; Sahadat Hossain; Rossitza Iakimova; Mona Ibrahim; Felicia Iftene; Yulia Ignatenko; Matias Irarrazaval; Zaliha Ismail; Jamila Ismayilova; Asaf Jacobs; Miro Jakovljević; Nenad Jakšić; Afzal Javed; Helin Yilmaz Kafali; Sagar Karia; Olga Kazakova; Doaa Khalifa; Olena Khaustova; Steve Koh; Svetlana Kopishinskaia; Korneliia Kosenko; Sotirios A. Koupidis; Illes Kovacs; Barbara Kulig; Alisha Lalljee; Justine Liewig; Abdul Majid; Evgeniia Malashonkova; Khamelia Malik; Najma Iqbal Malik; Gulay Mammadzada; Bilvesh Mandalia; Donatella Marazziti; Darko Marčinko; Stephanie Martinez; Eimantas Matiekus; Gabriela Mejia; Roha Saeed Memon; Xarah Elenne Meza Martínez; Dalia Mickevičiūtė; Roumen Milev; Muftau Mohammed; Alejandro Molina-López; Petr Morozov; Nuru Suleiman Muhammad; Filip Mustač; Mika S. Naor; Amira Nassieb; Alvydas Navickas; Tarek Okasha; Milena Pandova; Anca Livia Panfil; Liliya Panteleeva; Ion Papava; Mikaella E. Patsali; Alexey Pavlichenko; Bojana Pejuskovic; Mariana Pinto da Costa; Mikhail Popkov; Dina Popovic; Nor Jannah Nasution Raduan; Francisca Vargas Ramírez; Elmars Rancans; Salmi Razali; Federico Rebok; Anna Rewekant; Elena Ninoska Reyes Flores; María Teresa Rivera-Encinas; Pilar A. Saiz; Manuel Sánchez de Carmona; David Saucedo Martínez; Jo Anne Saw; Görkem Saygili; Patricia Schneidereit; Bhumika Shah; Tomohiro Shirasaka; Ketevan Silagadze; Satti Sitanggang; Oleg Skugarevsky; Anna Spikina; Sridevi Sira Mahalingappa; Maria Stoyanova; Anna Szczegielniak; Simona Claudia Tamasan; Giuseppe Tavormina; Maurilio Giuseppe Maria Tavormina; Pavlos N. Theodorakis; Mauricio Tohen; Eva Maria Tsapakis; Dina Tukhvatullina; Irfan Ullah; Ratnaraj Vaidya; Johann M. Vega-Dienstmaier; Jelena Vrublevska; Olivera Vukovic; Olga Vysotska; Natalia Widiasih; Anna Yashikhina; Panagiotis E. Prezerakos; Michael Berk; Sarah Levaj; Daria Smirnova

doi:10.1007/s00127-023-02438-8

Results of the COVID-19 mental health international for the health professionals (COMET-HP) study: depression, suicidal tendencies and conspiracism

Konstantinos N. Fountoulakis, Grigorios N. Karakatsoulis, Seri Abraham, Kristina Adorjan, Helal Uddin Ahmed, Renato D. Alarcón, Kiyomi Arai, Sani Salihu Auwal, Julio Bobes, Teresa Bobes-Bascaran, Julie Bourgin-Duchesnay, Cristina Ana Bredicean, Laurynas Bukelskis, Akaki Burkadze, Indira Indiana Cabrera Abud, Ruby Castilla-Puentes, Marcelo Cetkovich, Hector Colon-Rivera, Ricardo Corral, Carla Cortez-VergaraPiirika Crepin, Domenico de Berardis, Sergio Zamora Delgado, David de Lucena, Avinash de Sousa, Ramona di Stefano, Seetal Dodd, Livia Priyanka Elek, Anna Elissa, Berta Erdelyi-Hamza, Gamze Erzin, Martin J. Etchevers, Peter Falkai, Adriana Farcas, Ilya Fedotov, Viktoriia Filatova, Nikolaos K. Fountoulakis, Iryna Frankova, Francesco Franza, Pedro Frias, Tatiana Galako, Cristian J. Garay, Leticia Garcia-Álvarez, Paz García-Portilla, Xenia Gonda, Tomasz M. Gondek, Daniela Morera González, Hilary Gould, Paolo Grandinetti, Arturo Grau, Violeta Groudeva, Michal Hagin, Takayuki Harada, Tasdik M. Hasan, Nurul Azreen Hashim, Jan Hilbig, Sahadat Hossain, Rossitza Iakimova, Mona Ibrahim, Felicia Iftene, Yulia Ignatenko, Matias Irarrazaval, Zaliha Ismail, Jamila Ismayilova, Asaf Jacobs, Miro Jakovljević, Nenad Jakšić, Afzal Javed, Helin Yilmaz Kafali, Sagar Karia, Olga Kazakova, Doaa Khalifa, Olena Khaustova, Steve Koh, Svetlana Kopishinskaia, Korneliia Kosenko, Sotirios A. Koupidis, Illes Kovacs, Barbara Kulig, Alisha Lalljee, Justine Liewig, Abdul Majid, Evgeniia Malashonkova, Khamelia Malik, Najma Iqbal Malik, Gulay Mammadzada, Bilvesh Mandalia, Donatella Marazziti, Darko Marčinko, Stephanie Martinez, Eimantas Matiekus, Gabriela Mejia, Roha Saeed Memon, Xarah Elenne Meza Martínez, Dalia Mickevičiūtė, Roumen Milev, Muftau Mohammed, Alejandro Molina-López, Petr Morozov, Nuru Suleiman Muhammad, Filip Mustač, Mika S. Naor, Amira Nassieb, Alvydas Navickas, Tarek Okasha, Milena Pandova, Anca Livia Panfil, Liliya Panteleeva, Ion Papava, Mikaella E. Patsali, Alexey Pavlichenko, Bojana Pejuskovic, Mariana Pinto da Costa, Mikhail Popkov, Dina Popovic, Nor Jannah Nasution Raduan, Francisca Vargas Ramírez, Elmars Rancans, Salmi Razali, Federico Rebok, Anna Rewekant, Elena Ninoska Reyes Flores, María Teresa Rivera-Encinas, Pilar A. Saiz, Manuel Sánchez de Carmona, David Saucedo Martínez, Jo Anne Saw, Görkem Saygili, Patricia Schneidereit, Bhumika Shah, Tomohiro Shirasaka, Ketevan Silagadze, Satti Sitanggang, Oleg Skugarevsky, Anna Spikina, Sridevi Sira Mahalingappa, Maria Stoyanova, Anna Szczegielniak, Simona Claudia Tamasan, Giuseppe Tavormina, Maurilio Giuseppe Maria Tavormina, Pavlos N. Theodorakis, Mauricio Tohen, Eva Maria Tsapakis, Dina Tukhvatullina, Irfan Ullah, Ratnaraj Vaidya, Johann M. Vega-Dienstmaier, Jelena Vrublevska, Olivera Vukovic, Olga Vysotska, Natalia Widiasih, Anna Yashikhina, Panagiotis E. Prezerakos, Michael Berk, Sarah Levaj, Daria Smirnova

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Introduction: The current study aimed to investigate the rates of anxiety, clinical depression, and suicidality and their changes in health professionals during the COVID-19 outbreak. Materials and methods: The data came from the larger COMET-G study. The study sample includes 12,792 health professionals from 40 countries (62.40% women aged 39.76 ± 11.70; 36.81% men aged 35.91 ± 11.00 and 0.78% non-binary gender aged 35.15 ± 13.03). Distress and clinical depression were identified with the use of a previously developed cut-off and algorithm, respectively. Statistical analysis: Descriptive statistics were calculated. Chi-square tests, multiple forward stepwise linear regression analyses, and Factorial Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) tested relations among variables. Results: Clinical depression was detected in 13.16% with male doctors and ‘non-binary genders’ having the lowest rates (7.89 and 5.88% respectively) and ‘non-binary gender’ nurses and administrative staff had the highest (37.50%); distress was present in 15.19%. A significant percentage reported a deterioration in mental state, family dynamics, and everyday lifestyle. Persons with a history of mental disorders had higher rates of current depression (24.64% vs. 9.62%; p < 0.0001). Suicidal tendencies were at least doubled in terms of RASS scores. Approximately one-third of participants were accepting (at least to a moderate degree) a non-bizarre conspiracy. The highest Relative Risk (RR) to develop clinical depression was associated with a history of Bipolar disorder (RR = 4.23). Conclusions: The current study reported findings in health care professionals similar in magnitude and quality to those reported earlier in the general population although rates of clinical depression, suicidal tendencies, and adherence to conspiracy theories were much lower. However, the general model of factors interplay seems to be the same and this could be of practical utility since many of these factors are modifiable.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1387-1410
Number of pages	24
Journal	Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
Volume	58
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-023-02438-8
Publication status	Published - Sept 2023

Keywords

Anxiety
Conspiracy theories
COVID-19
Depression
Health professionals
Mental disorders
Mental health
Psychiatry
Suicidality

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N. Fountoulakis, K., N. Karakatsoulis, G., Abraham, S., Adorjan, K., Ahmed, H. U., Alarcón, R. D., Arai, K., Auwal, S. S., Bobes, J., Bobes-Bascaran, T., Bourgin-Duchesnay, J., Bredicean, C. A., Bukelskis, L., Burkadze, A., Cabrera Abud, I. I., Castilla-Puentes, R., Cetkovich, M., Colon-Rivera, H., Corral, R., ... Smirnova, D. (2023). Results of the COVID-19 mental health international for the health professionals (COMET-HP) study: depression, suicidal tendencies and conspiracism. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 58(9), 1387-1410. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-023-02438-8

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Results of the COVID-19 mental health international for the health professionals (COMET-HP) study: depression, suicidal tendencies and conspiracism. / N. Fountoulakis, Konstantinos; N. Karakatsoulis, Grigorios; Abraham, Seri et al.
In: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, Vol. 58, No. 9, 09.2023, p. 1387-1410.

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PY - 2023/9

Y1 - 2023/9

N2 - Introduction: The current study aimed to investigate the rates of anxiety, clinical depression, and suicidality and their changes in health professionals during the COVID-19 outbreak. Materials and methods: The data came from the larger COMET-G study. The study sample includes 12,792 health professionals from 40 countries (62.40% women aged 39.76 ± 11.70; 36.81% men aged 35.91 ± 11.00 and 0.78% non-binary gender aged 35.15 ± 13.03). Distress and clinical depression were identified with the use of a previously developed cut-off and algorithm, respectively. Statistical analysis: Descriptive statistics were calculated. Chi-square tests, multiple forward stepwise linear regression analyses, and Factorial Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) tested relations among variables. Results: Clinical depression was detected in 13.16% with male doctors and ‘non-binary genders’ having the lowest rates (7.89 and 5.88% respectively) and ‘non-binary gender’ nurses and administrative staff had the highest (37.50%); distress was present in 15.19%. A significant percentage reported a deterioration in mental state, family dynamics, and everyday lifestyle. Persons with a history of mental disorders had higher rates of current depression (24.64% vs. 9.62%; p < 0.0001). Suicidal tendencies were at least doubled in terms of RASS scores. Approximately one-third of participants were accepting (at least to a moderate degree) a non-bizarre conspiracy. The highest Relative Risk (RR) to develop clinical depression was associated with a history of Bipolar disorder (RR = 4.23). Conclusions: The current study reported findings in health care professionals similar in magnitude and quality to those reported earlier in the general population although rates of clinical depression, suicidal tendencies, and adherence to conspiracy theories were much lower. However, the general model of factors interplay seems to be the same and this could be of practical utility since many of these factors are modifiable.

AB - Introduction: The current study aimed to investigate the rates of anxiety, clinical depression, and suicidality and their changes in health professionals during the COVID-19 outbreak. Materials and methods: The data came from the larger COMET-G study. The study sample includes 12,792 health professionals from 40 countries (62.40% women aged 39.76 ± 11.70; 36.81% men aged 35.91 ± 11.00 and 0.78% non-binary gender aged 35.15 ± 13.03). Distress and clinical depression were identified with the use of a previously developed cut-off and algorithm, respectively. Statistical analysis: Descriptive statistics were calculated. Chi-square tests, multiple forward stepwise linear regression analyses, and Factorial Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) tested relations among variables. Results: Clinical depression was detected in 13.16% with male doctors and ‘non-binary genders’ having the lowest rates (7.89 and 5.88% respectively) and ‘non-binary gender’ nurses and administrative staff had the highest (37.50%); distress was present in 15.19%. A significant percentage reported a deterioration in mental state, family dynamics, and everyday lifestyle. Persons with a history of mental disorders had higher rates of current depression (24.64% vs. 9.62%; p < 0.0001). Suicidal tendencies were at least doubled in terms of RASS scores. Approximately one-third of participants were accepting (at least to a moderate degree) a non-bizarre conspiracy. The highest Relative Risk (RR) to develop clinical depression was associated with a history of Bipolar disorder (RR = 4.23). Conclusions: The current study reported findings in health care professionals similar in magnitude and quality to those reported earlier in the general population although rates of clinical depression, suicidal tendencies, and adherence to conspiracy theories were much lower. However, the general model of factors interplay seems to be the same and this could be of practical utility since many of these factors are modifiable.

KW - Anxiety

KW - Conspiracy theories

KW - COVID-19

KW - Depression

KW - Health professionals

KW - Mental disorders

KW - Mental health

KW - Psychiatry

KW - Suicidality

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85149213713&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1007/s00127-023-02438-8

DO - 10.1007/s00127-023-02438-8

M3 - Article

C2 - 36867224

AN - SCOPUS:85149213713

SN - 0933-7954

VL - 58

SP - 1387

EP - 1410

JO - Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

JF - Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

IS - 9

ER -

Results of the COVID-19 mental health international for the health professionals (COMET-HP) study: depression, suicidal tendencies and conspiracism

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