Anxiety and depression among medical doctors in Catalonia, Italy, and the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic
dc.contributor.author | Quintana-Domeque, C | |
dc.contributor.author | Lee, I | |
dc.contributor.author | Zhang, A | |
dc.contributor.author | Proto, E | |
dc.contributor.author | Battisti, M | |
dc.contributor.author | Ho, A | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-11-09T15:18:06Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-11-02 | |
dc.date.updated | 2021-11-08T15:41:18Z | |
dc.description.abstract | 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. | en_GB |
dc.format.extent | e0259213-e0259213 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 16 (11), article e0259213 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0259213 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/127708 | |
dc.identifier | ORCID: 0000-0002-6626-6261 (Quintana-Domeque, Climent) | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Public Library of Science (PLoS) | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/DRSMYH | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2021 Quintana-Domeque et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. | en_GB |
dc.title | Anxiety and depression among medical doctors in Catalonia, Italy, and the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2021-11-09T15:18:06Z | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from Public Library of Science via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.description | Data Availability Statement: Code and data files are publicly available from the Harvard Dataverse repository: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/DRSMYH. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1932-6203 | |
dc.identifier.journal | PLoS ONE | en_GB |
dc.relation.ispartof | PLOS ONE, 16(11) | |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2021-10-14 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2021-11-09T10:09:44Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2021-11-09T15:18:13Z | |
refterms.panel | C | en_GB |
refterms.dateFirstOnline | 2021-11-02 |
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