Sociodemographic Factors of Depression During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Malaysia: the COVID-19 Mental Health International Study

Background The CoMeH cohort was established to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the use of mental health services in Italy in the short and long term, with a particular focus on socioeconomic and/or citizenship inequalities. Methods All residents subjects for at least 2 years, aged ≥ 10 years, and assisted by an NHS general practitioner (GP) of the area of residence, in three vast catchment areas (N = 5,167,043). Primary outcomes of interest are the following indicators of mental health care services’ use: first access to any mental health care service, total number of accesses to mental health care services, the consumption of psychiatric drugs, the number of psychiatric or psychological outpatient visits, the number of residential or day care days spent in psychiatric facilities, the number of emergency and/or inpatient admissions to hospitals. Results Incident users were 3.2% of the population for Bergamo LHA, 3.5% for Rome2 LHA, and 4.4% for the Tuscany Region. The overall crude incidence rate of access to mental health care was 3.3% in the pre-COVID-19 period and 2.6% during the pandemic. Prescriptions for a mental disorder (57.2%) and ED admissions (25.1%) were the main reasons for enrollment. Compared to the general population, people with mental health conditions were older and more often female. The distribution of the incident users by deprivation index overlapped that of the population. Immigrants were younger, socioeconomically more deprived, and more often entered the study for an ED admission. Discussion We will focus on the impact of the pandemic through the evaluation of accesses to hospitalization, emergency, outpatient visits, residential and day care services, and drug prescriptions. We will also evaluate socioeconomic inequalities through the use of census-based deprivation index and migration status. Finally, we will also analyze the impact of COVID-19 infection and outcome on the study cohort.

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Unleashing the link between the relaxation of the COVID-19 control policy and residents’ mental health in China: the mediating role of family tourism consumption

He,

Zhan,

et al. 2023

Front. Public Health

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ObjectiveCOVID-19 has negatively influenced industrial development, family consumption, and residents’ mental health. Unfortunately, it has not yet been studied whether this adverse situation can be alleviated after the relaxation of the COVID-19 control policy (RCC). Therefore, this study aimed to analyze the effect of the RCC on the resident’s mental health and the mediating effect of family tourism consumption.Methods By using the PSM and mediating effetc model to research the panel data of two periods (April 2021 and April 2023) for Shaanxi province, China.ResultsThe RCC negatively inhibited the mental health severity of residents, and the mental health severity decreased by 0.602. In particular, the RCC showed the most substantial negative effect on residents’ stress, followed by anxiety and depression. Meanwhile, it is found that the impact of the RCC on the mental health of residents is highly heterogeneous. The RCC indicates a linear significant effect on the mental health of residents under 60 years of age, while the results were found insignificant for residents above 60 years of age. Meanwhile, the RCC’s improvement effect on urban residents’ mental health is greater than that of rural residents. In addition, mechanism analysis showed that tourism consumption plays a mediating role in the influence of the RCC on the mental health of residents, and the mediating effect accounted for 24.58% of the total effect.ConclusionBased on the findings, the study proposes that government and policymakers should strengthen mental health intervention, improve access to mental health counseling, stimulate economic development, expand the employment of residents, and track the mutation of the novel coronavirus.

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Sociodemographic Factors of Depression During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Malaysia: the COVID-19 Mental Health International Study

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Unleashing the link between the relaxation of the COVID-19 control policy and residents’ mental health in China: the mediating role of family tourism consumption

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