“…The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was first discovered in China (December 2019) but it was spread disseminated worldwide in a quick manner, reaching a global sociocultural differences in the pandemic's overall mental health impact (Antunes et al, 2020;Candeias et al, 2021;Morgado et al, 2021). Indeed, both internationally as well as in Portugal, some particular groups have been consistently identified to be at a greater risk for psychosocial vulnerability, namely: women, people on a lower socioeconomic status, discriminated communities, health professionals and other front-line workers, people with previous (mental) health conditions, or those having barriers towards access to healthcare (Dubey et al, 2020;Luo et al, 2020;Paulino et al, 2020;Pires et al, 2022;Vindegaard & Benros, 2020).…”