Global and risk-group stratified well-being and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic in adults: Results from the international COH-FIT Study
Solmi, Marco; Thompson, Trevor; Estradé, Andrés; Agorastos, Agorastos; Radua, Joaquim; Cortese, Samuele; Dragioti, Elena; Vancampfort, Davy; Thygesen, Lau Caspar; Aschauer, Harald; Schlögelhofer, Monika; Aschauer, Elena; Schneeberger, Andres; Huber, Christian G.; Hasler, Gregor; Conus, Philippe; Cuénod, Kim Q.Do; von Känel, Roland; Arrondo, Gonzalo; Fusar-Poli, Paolo; Gorwood, Philip; Llorca, Pierre Michel; Krebs, Marie Odile; Scanferla, Elisabetta; Kishimoto, Taishiro; Rabbani, Golam; Skonieczna-Żydecka, Karolina; Brambilla, Paolo; Favaro, Angela; Takamiya, Akihiro; Zoccante, Leonardo; Colizzi, Marco; Bourgin, Julie; Kamiński, Karol; Moghadasin, Maryam; Seedat, Soraya; Matthews, Evan; Wells, John; Vassilopoulou, Emilia; Gadelha, Ary; Su, Kuan Pin; Kwon, Jun Soo; Kim, Minah; Lee, Tae Young; Papsuev, Oleg; Manková, Denisa; Boscutti, Andrea; Gerunda, Cristiano; Sommer, Iris; van Os, Jim; Department of Neurology, Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands (GJB, GJER)
(2024) Psychiatry Research, volume 342
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Abstract
International studies measuring wellbeing/multidimensional mental health before/ during the COVID-19 pandemic, including representative samples for >2 years, identifying risk groups and coping strategies are lacking. COH-FIT is an online, international, anonymous survey measuring changes in well-being (WHO-5) and a composite psychopathology P-score, and their associations with COVID-19 deaths/restrictions, 12 a-priori
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defined risk individual/cumulative factors, and coping strategies during COVID-19 pandemic (26/04/2020-26/06/2022) in 30 languages (representative, weighted non-representative, adults). T-test, χ2, penalized cubic splines, linear regression, correlation analyses were conducted. Analyzing 121,066/142,364 initiated surveys, WHO-5/P-score worsened intra-pandemic by 11.1±21.1/13.2±17.9 points (effect size d=0.50/0.60) (comparable results in representative/weighted non-probability samples). Persons with WHO-5 scores indicative of depression screening (<50, 13% to 32%) and major depression (<29, 3% to 12%) significantly increased. WHO-5 worsened from those with mental disorders, female sex, COVID-19-related loss, low-income country location, physical disorders, healthcare worker occupations, large city location, COVID-19 infection, unemployment, first-generation immigration, to age=18-29 with a cumulative effect. Similar findings emerged for P-score. Changes were significantly but minimally related to COVID-19 deaths, returning to near-pre-pandemic values after >2 years. The most subjectively effective coping strategies were exercise and walking, internet use, social contacts. Identified risk groups, coping strategies and outcome trajectories can inform global public health strategies.
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Keywords: Covid-19, Mental health, P-factor, Pandemic, Psychiatry, Psychopathology, Survey, Well-being, WHO-5, Psychiatry and Mental health, Biological Psychiatry
ISSN: 0165-1781
Publisher: Elsevier Ireland Ltd
Note: Publisher Copyright: © 2024 The Authors
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