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Eszlari N, Hullam G, Gal Z, Torok D, Nagy T, Millinghoffer A, Baksa D, Gonda X, Antal P, Bagdy G, Juhasz G. Olfactory genes affect major depression in highly educated, emotionally stable, lean women: a bridge between animal models and precision medicine. Transl Psychiatry 2024; 14:182. [PMID: 38589364 PMCID: PMC11002013 DOI: 10.1038/s41398-024-02867-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2023] [Revised: 03/06/2024] [Accepted: 03/11/2024] [Indexed: 04/10/2024] Open
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Most current approaches to establish subgroups of depressed patients for precision medicine aim to rely on biomarkers that require highly specialized assessment. Our present aim was to stratify participants of the UK Biobank cohort based on three readily measurable common independent risk factors, and to investigate depression genomics in each group to discover common and separate biological etiology. Two-step cluster analysis was run separately in males (n = 149,879) and females (n = 174,572), with neuroticism (a tendency to experience negative emotions), body fat percentage, and years spent in education as input variables. Genome-wide association analyses were implemented within each of the resulting clusters, for the lifetime occurrence of either a depressive episode or recurrent depressive disorder as the outcome. Variant-based, gene-based, gene set-based, and tissue-specific gene expression test were applied. Phenotypically distinct clusters with high genetic intercorrelations in depression genomics were found. A two-cluster solution was the best model in each sex with some differences including the less important role of neuroticism in males. In females, in case of a protective pattern of low neuroticism, low body fat percentage, and high level of education, depression was associated with pathways related to olfactory function. While also in females but in a risk pattern of high neuroticism, high body fat percentage, and less years spent in education, depression showed association with complement system genes. Our results, on one hand, indicate that alteration of olfactory pathways, that can be paralleled to the well-known rodent depression models of olfactory bulbectomy, might be a novel target towards precision psychiatry in females with less other risk factors for depression. On the other hand, our results in multi-risk females may provide a special case of immunometabolic depression.
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Grants
- This study was supported by the Hungarian National Research, Development, and Innovation Office, with grants K 143391 and PD 146014, as well as 2019-2.1.7-ERA-NET-2020-00005 under the frame of ERA PerMed (ERAPERMED2019-108); by the Hungarian Brain Research Program (grant: 2017-1.2.1-NKP-2017-00002) and the Hungarian Brain Research Program 3.0 (NAP2022-I-4/2022); and by TKP2021-EGA-25, implemented with the support provided by the Ministry of Innovation and Technology of Hungary from the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund, financed under the TKP2021-EGA funding scheme. N. E. was supported by the ÚNKP-22-4-II-SE-1, and D. B. by the ÚNKP-22-4-I-SE-10 New National Excellence Program of the Ministry for Culture and Innovation from the source of the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund. N. E. is supported by the János Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
- This study was supported by the Hungarian National Research, Development, and Innovation Office, with grants K 143391, as well as 2019-2.1.7-ERA-NET-2020-00005 under the frame of ERA PerMed (ERAPERMED2019-108); by the Hungarian Brain Research Program (grant: 2017-1.2.1-NKP-2017-00002) and the Hungarian Brain Research Program 3.0 (NAP2022-I-4/2022); and by TKP2021-EGA-25, implemented with the support provided by the Ministry of Innovation and Technology of Hungary from the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund, financed under the TKP2021-EGA funding scheme.
- This study was supported by the Hungarian National Research, Development, and Innovation Office, with grants K 143391, as well as 2019-2.1.7-ERA-NET-2020-00005 under the frame of ERA PerMed (ERAPERMED2019-108); by the Hungarian Brain Research Program (grant: 2017-1.2.1-NKP-2017-00002) and the Hungarian Brain Research Program 3.0 (NAP2022-I-4/2022); and by TKP2021-EGA-25, implemented with the support provided by the Ministry of Innovation and Technology of Hungary from the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund, financed under the TKP2021-EGA funding scheme. N. E. was supported by the ÚNKP-22-4-II-SE-1, and D. B. by the ÚNKP-23-4-II-SE-2 New National Excellence Program of the Ministry for Culture and Innovation from the source of the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund.
- This study was supported by the Hungarian National Research, Development, and Innovation Office, with grants K 139330, K 143391, and PD 146014, as well as 2019-2.1.7-ERA-NET-2020-00005 under the frame of ERA PerMed (ERAPERMED2019-108); by the Hungarian Brain Research Program (grant: 2017-1.2.1-NKP-2017-00002) and the Hungarian Brain Research Program 3.0 (NAP2022-I-4/2022); and by TKP2021-EGA-25, implemented with the support provided by the Ministry of Innovation and Technology of Hungary from the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund, financed under the TKP2021-EGA funding scheme. It was also supported by the National Research, Development, and Innovation Fund of Hungary under Grant TKP2021-EGA-02 and the European Union project RRF-2.3.1-21-2022-00004 within the framework of the Artificial Intelligence National Laboratory.
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- Nora Eszlari
- Department of Pharmacodynamics, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary.
- NAP3.0-SE Neuropsychopharmacology Research Group, Hungarian Brain Research Program, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary.
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- Department of Pharmacodynamics, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
- Department of Measurement and Information Systems, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Pharmacodynamics, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
- NAP3.0-SE Neuropsychopharmacology Research Group, Hungarian Brain Research Program, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Pharmacodynamics, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
- NAP3.0-SE Neuropsychopharmacology Research Group, Hungarian Brain Research Program, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Pharmacodynamics, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
- NAP3.0-SE Neuropsychopharmacology Research Group, Hungarian Brain Research Program, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
- Department of Measurement and Information Systems, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary
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- NAP3.0-SE Neuropsychopharmacology Research Group, Hungarian Brain Research Program, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
- Department of Measurement and Information Systems, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Pharmacodynamics, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
- NAP3.0-SE Neuropsychopharmacology Research Group, Hungarian Brain Research Program, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
- Department of Personality and Clinical Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary
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- NAP3.0-SE Neuropsychopharmacology Research Group, Hungarian Brain Research Program, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Measurement and Information Systems, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Pharmacodynamics, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
- NAP3.0-SE Neuropsychopharmacology Research Group, Hungarian Brain Research Program, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Pharmacodynamics, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
- NAP3.0-SE Neuropsychopharmacology Research Group, Hungarian Brain Research Program, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
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Stickley A, Baburin A, Jasilionis D, Krumins J, Martikainen P, Kondo N, Shin JI, Oh H, Waldman K, Leinsalu M. Educational inequalities in hypothermia mortality in the Baltic countries and Finland in 2000-15. Eur J Public Health 2023:7140394. [PMID: 37094965 PMCID: PMC10393481 DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckad062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/26/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Despite an increased focus on cold-related mortality in recent years, there has been comparatively little research specifically on hypothermia mortality and its associated factors. METHODS Educational inequalities in hypothermia mortality among individuals aged 30-74 in the Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) and Finland in 2000-15 were examined using data from longitudinal mortality follow-up studies of population censuses (the Baltics) and from a longitudinal register-based population data file (Finland). RESULTS Age-standardized mortality rates (ASMRs) were much higher in the Baltic countries than in Finland across the study period. From 2000-07 to 2008-15, overall ASMRs declined in all countries except among Finnish women. Although a strong educational gradient was observed in hypothermia mortality in all countries in 2000-07, inequalities were larger in the Baltic countries. Between 2000-07 and 2008-15, ASMRs declined in all educational groups except for high-educated women in Finland and low-educated women in Lithuania; the changes however were not always statistically significant. The absolute mortality decline was often larger among the low educated resulting in narrowing absolute inequalities (excepting Lithuania), whereas a larger relative decline among the high educated (excepting Finnish women) resulted in a considerable widening of relative inequalities in hypothermia mortality by 2008-15. CONCLUSION Although some reduction was observed in absolute educational inequalities in hypothermia mortality in 2000-15, substantial and widening relative inequalities highlight the need for further action in combatting factors behind deaths from excessive cold in socioeconomically disadvantaged groups, including risky alcohol consumption and homelessness.
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- Andrew Stickley
- Stockholm Centre for Health and Social Change, Södertörn University, Huddinge, Sweden
- Department of Social Epidemiology, Graduate School of Medicine and School of Public Health, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, National Institute for Health Development, Tallinn, Estonia
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- Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany
- Demographic Research Centre, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania
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- Demography Unit, Faculty of Business, Management and Economics, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
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- Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany
- Population Research Unit, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Social Epidemiology, Graduate School of Medicine and School of Public Health, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Pediatrics, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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- Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Sociology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Stockholm Centre for Health and Social Change, Södertörn University, Huddinge, Sweden
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, National Institute for Health Development, Tallinn, Estonia
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Yen Phi HN, Quoc Tho T, Xuan Manh B, Anh Ngoc T, Minh Chau PT, Trung Nghia N, Nghia TT, Ngoc Quynh HH, Huy NT, Linh NT, Lê An P. Prevalence of depressive disorders in a primary care setting in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: A cross-sectional epidemiological study. Int J Psychiatry Med 2023; 58:86-101. [PMID: 36437044 DOI: 10.1177/00912174221141757] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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OBJECTIVE This research was conducted to identify the prevalence and associated factors of depressive disorders, as well as evaluate the recognition rate of general practitioners in detecting these mental health issues in primary care. METHOD Five hundred and twelve participants (55.3% female, mean age = 46.35 years) were assessed by psychiatrists based on the DSM-5 clinical procedures over a two-month survey in a primary care facility in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. RESULTS There were 15.8% (95% confidence interval [CI] 12.9-19.2) of the population having depressive disorders, with major depressive disorder being the most prevalent subtype at 8% (95% CI 5.9-10.6). General practitioners could detect depressive disorders in 2.5% of all cases (95% CI .5-7.7). Significantly linked with depressive disorders in multivariable analysis were Chinese ethnic or other minority races (adjusted odds ratios [aOR] = 4.10, 95% CI 1.04-16.12), and low economic status (aOR = 5.41, 95% CI 1.29-22.59). CONCLUSIONS The high prevalence of depressive disorders in outpatients of primary care clinics may raise the awareness of the practitioners about screening and other appropriate actions to tackle the issue.
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- Ho Nguyen Yen Phi
- Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, 249295University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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- Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, 249295University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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- Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, 249295University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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- Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, 249295University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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- Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, 249295University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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- Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, 249295University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.,Mental Health Unit, Hoan My Sai Gon Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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- Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, 249295University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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- Department of Health Education and Psychology in Medicine, Faculty of Public Health, 249295University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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- School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, 249295University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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- The Center of Training Family Medicine, 249295University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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Puteikis K, Kazėnaitė E, Mameniškienė R. Psychiatric comorbidities and all-cause mortality in epilepsy: A nationwide cohort study. Front Neurol 2022; 13:956053. [PMID: 36061994 PMCID: PMC9433706 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2022.956053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2022] [Accepted: 08/02/2022] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Background People with epilepsy (PWE) having comorbid psychiatric conditions may be at greater risk of death. We aimed to determine the association between psychiatric disorders and all-cause mortality among PWE after adjustment for somatic comorbidities. Methods Based on data from the National Health Insurance Fund, a Cox survival analysis was done within a retrospective open cohort of all PWE (≥12 years) in Lithuania between January 2014 and June 2020. Cox models comparing mortality between PWE with or without psychiatric comorbidities were adjusted for sex, age, hospitalizations, and the epilepsy-specific comorbidity index. Results Of 47,964 PWE (age Md = 49, IQR = 34–62 years, 60.3% male, follow-up Md = 4.4, IQR = 2.1–6.1 years), 10,290 (21.5%) died during the study. The diagnosis of any psychiatric disorder (n = 26,137, 54.5%) was associated with increased mortality when adjusted for only sex and age (HR = 1.13, 95% CI = 1.09 to 1.18). After including the epilepsy-specific comorbidity index, the number of hospitalizations and hospital days in the analysis, only self-harm (HR = 1.55, 95% CI = 1.40 to 1.71) and substance use disorders (HR = 1.39 95% CI = 1.32 to 1.47), but not any psychiatric comorbidities (HR = 0.92 95% CI = 0.88 to 0.96) were related to elevated all-cause mortality. Mood, anxiety and behavioral disorders were associated with lower odds of mortality; however, they were rarely documented. Conclusions Our results suggest that psychiatric comorbidities increase all-cause mortality among PWE through their association with coexisting somatic conditions as only substance use disorders and self-harm were independently related to elevated all-cause mortality. Future clinical interview-based studies should explore the relationship between mortality in epilepsy and psychiatric comorbidities while adjusting for somatic comorbidities.
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- Centre for Neurology, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania
- *Correspondence: Rūta Mameniškienė
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Flodin P, Sörberg Wallin A, Tarantino B, Cerchiello P, Mladá K, Kuklová M, Kondrátová L, Parimbelli E, Osika W, Hollander AC, Dalman C. Differential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on primary care utilization related to common mental disorders in four European countries: A retrospective observational study. Front Psychiatry 2022; 13:1045325. [PMID: 36699500 PMCID: PMC9868724 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.1045325] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2022] [Accepted: 12/13/2022] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND The COVID-19 pandemic is commonly believed to have increased common mental disorders (CMD, i.e., depression and anxiety), either directly due to COVID-19 contractions (death of near ones or residual conditions), or indirectly by increasing stress, economic uncertainty, and disruptions in daily life resulting from containment measure. Whereas studies reporting on initial changes in self-reported data frequently have reported increases in CMD, pandemic related changes in CMD related to primary care utilization are less well known. Analyzing time series of routinely and continuously sampled primary healthcare data from Sweden, Norway, Netherlands, and Latvia, we aimed to characterize the impact of the pandemic on CMD recorded prevalence in primary care. Furthermore, by relating these changes to country specific time-trajectories of two classes of containment measures, we evaluated the differential impact of containment strategies on CMD rates. Specifically, we wanted to test whether school restrictions would preferentially affect age groups corresponding to those of school children or their parents. METHODS For the four investigated countries, we collected time-series of monthly counts of unique CMD patients in primary healthcare from the year 2015 (or 2017) until 2021. Using pre-pandemic timepoints to train seasonal Auto Regressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) models, we predicted healthcare utilization during the pandemic. Discrepancies between observed and expected time series were quantified to infer pandemic related changes. To evaluate the effects of COVID-19 measures on CMD related primary care utilization, the predicted time series were related to country specific time series of levels of social distancing and school restrictions. RESULTS In all countries except Latvia there was an initial (April 2020) decrease in CMD care prevalence, where largest drops were found in Sweden (Prevalence Ratio, PR = 0.85; 95% CI 0.81-0.90), followed by Netherlands (0.86; 95% CI 0.76-1.02) and Norway (0.90; 95% CI 0.83-0.98). Latvia on the other hand experienced increased rates (1.25; 95% CI 1.08-1.49). Whereas PRs in Norway and Netherlands normalized during the latter half of 2020, PRs stayed low in Sweden and elevated in Latvia. The overall changes in PR during the pandemic year 2020 was significantly changed only for Sweden (0.91; 95% CI 0.90-0.93) and Latvia (1.20; 95% CI 1.14-1.26). Overall, the relationship between containment measures and CMD care prevalence were weak and non-significant. In particular, we could not observe any relationship of school restriction to CMD care prevalence for the age groups best corresponding to school children or their parents. CONCLUSION Common mental disorders prevalence in primary care decreased during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in all countries except from Latvia, but normalized in Norway and Netherlands by the latter half of 2020. The onset of the pandemic and the containment strategies were highly correlated within each country, limiting strong conclusions on whether restriction policy had any effects on mental health. Specifically, we found no evidence of associations between school restrictions and CMD care prevalence. Overall, current results lend no support to the common belief that the pandemic severely impacted the mental health of the general population as indicated by healthcare utilization, apart from in Latvia. However, since healthcare utilization is affected by multiple factors in addition to actual need, future studies should combine complementary types of data to better understand the mental health impacts of the pandemic.
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- Pär Flodin
- Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Brain and Behavioral Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
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- Department of Economics and Management, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
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- Department of Public Mental Health, National Institute of Mental Health, Klecany, Czechia.,Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital in Pilsen, Charles University, Prague, Czechia
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- Department of Public Mental Health, National Institute of Mental Health, Klecany, Czechia.,Department of Demography and Geodemography, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czechia
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- Department of Public Mental Health, National Institute of Mental Health, Klecany, Czechia
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- Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.,Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Centre for Psychiatry Research, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.,Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Center for Social Sustainability, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.,Center for Epidemiology and Community Medicine, Stockholm, Sweden
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Vrublevska J, Sibalova A, Aleskere I, Rezgale B, Smirnova D, Fountoulakis KN, Rancans E. Factors related to depression, distress, and self-reported changes in anxiety, depression, and suicidal thoughts during the COVID-19 state of emergency in Latvia. Nord J Psychiatry 2021; 75:614-623. [PMID: 33969800 DOI: 10.1080/08039488.2021.1919200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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PURPOSE Evidence suggests that the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic might have deleterious effects on the population's mental health and psychiatric outcomes. We examined the prevalence of depression, distress, and suicidal thoughts and their association with social and economic factors during the state of emergency in a nationwide representative sample of the general population in Latvia. MATERIALS AND METHOD An online survey was conducted using a randomized stratified sample of the general adult population in July 2020 for 3 weeks. Distress, depression, suicidal thoughts, and self-reported changes in mental health were identified using a structured questionnaire. The statistical analysis included chi-square tests, analyses of variance, and multivariate forward-stepwise linear regressions. RESULTS The study sample included 2608 respondents. Clinical depression was present in 5.75% and distress in 7.82%. Suicidal thoughts increased in 13.30% of those with a history of clinical depression, and 27.05% of those with a history of suicidal attempts. The variables that were associated with increases in self-reported anxiety, depressive thoughts, suicidal ideation, and being currently depressed/distressed included lower general health, increased fears of contracting COVID-19 or having family members contract it and die, history of suicidality, increased family conflicts, decreased religiosity, caring for a vulnerable person. Protective factors included positive changes in family relationships and economic situation, maintaining one's basic routine, and having more people living in the household. CONCLUSIONS Further research and interventions should focus specifically on these factors. The study's findings can help to develop future strategies for management of psychological support for different groups in general population.
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- Jelena Vrublevska
- Department of Psychiatry and Narcology, Institute of Public Health, Riga Stradins University, Riga, Latvia
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- Faculty of Residency, Riga Stradins University, Riga, Latvia
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- Department of Psychiatry and Narcology, Institute of Public Health, Riga Stradins University, Riga, Latvia
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- Department of Psychiatry and Narcology, Institute of Public Health, Riga Stradins University, Riga, Latvia
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- International Centre for Education and Research in Neuropsychiatry (ICERN), Samara State Medical University, Samara, Russia and Department of Psychiatry, Narcology, Psychotherapy and Clinical Psychology, Samara State Medical University, Samara, Russia
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- Third Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Psychiatry and Narcology, Institute of Public Health, Riga Stradins University, Riga, Latvia
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