Department of Economics, Business School, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom.
GLO, Essen, Germany.
PLoS One. 2021 Nov 2;16(11):e0259213. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0259213. eCollection 2021.
Healthcare workers have had the longest and most direct exposure to COVID-19 and consequently may suffer from poor mental health. We conducted one of the first repeated multi-country analysis of the mental wellbeing of medical doctors (n = 5,275) at two timepoints during the COVID-19 pandemic (June 2020 and November/December 2020) to understand the prevalence of anxiety and depression, as well as associated risk factors. Rates of anxiety and depression were highest in Italy (24.6% and 20.1%, June 2020), second highest in Catalonia (15.9% and 17.4%, June 2020), and lowest in the UK (11.7% and 13.7%, June 2020). Across all countries, higher risk of anxiety and depression symptoms were found among women, individuals below 60 years old, those feeling vulnerable/exposed at work, and those reporting normal/below-normal health. We did not find systematic differences in mental health measures between the two rounds of data collection, hence we cannot discard that the mental health repercussions of the pandemic are persistent.
医护人员与 COVID-19 的接触时间最长、最直接，因此可能心理健康状况不佳。我们在 COVID-19 大流行期间的两个时间点（2020 年 6 月和 2020 年 11 月/12 月）对医生的心理健康进行了首次多国重复分析之一（n=5275），以了解焦虑和抑郁的患病率，以及相关的风险因素。意大利的焦虑和抑郁发生率最高（2020 年 6 月为 24.6%和 20.1%），其次是加泰罗尼亚（2020 年 6 月为 15.9%和 17.4%），英国最低（2020 年 6 月为 11.7%和 13.7%）。在所有国家，女性、60 岁以下的人、在工作中感到脆弱/易受感染的人以及报告健康正常/低于正常的人，焦虑和抑郁症状的风险更高。我们没有发现两轮数据收集之间心理健康测量的系统差异，因此我们不能排除大流行对心理健康的影响是持续存在的。
