Global and risk-group stratified well-being and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic in adults. Results from the international COH-FIT Study

International studies measuring wellbeing/multidimensional mental health before/ during the COVID-19 pandemic, including representative samples for >2 years, identifying risk groups and coping strategies are lacking. COH-FIT is an online, international, anonymous survey measuring changes in well-being (WHO-5) and a composite psychopathology P-score, and their associations with COVID-19 deaths/restrictions, 12 a-priori defined risk individual/cumulative factors, and coping strategies during COVID-19 pandemic (26/04/2020-26/ 06/2022) in 30 languages (representative, weighted non-representative, adults). T-test, χ2, penalized cubic splines, linear regression, correlation analyses were conducted. Analyzing 121,066/142,364 initiated surveys, WHO-5/P-score worsened intra-pandemic by 11.1±21.1/13.2±17.9 points (effect size d=0.50/0.60) (comparable results in representative/weighted non-probability samples). Persons with WHO-5 scores indicative of depression screening (<50, 13% to 32%) and major depression (<29, 3% to 12%) significantly increased. WHO-5 worsened from those with mental disorders, female sex, COVID-19-related loss, low-income country location, physical disorders, healthcare worker occupations, large city location, COVID-19 infection, unemployment, firstgeneration immigration, to age=18-29 with a cumulative effect. Similar findings emerged for P-score. Changes were significantly but minimally related to COVID-19 deaths, returning to near-pre-pandemic values after >2 years. The most subjectively effective coping strategies were exercise and walking, internet use, social contacts. Identified risk groups, coping strategies and outcome trajectories can inform global public health strategies.

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330 - Wirtschaft
610 - Medizin und Gesundheit

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1872-7123
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SOLMI, Marco, Trevor THOMPSON, Andrés ESTRADÉ, Agorastos AGORASTOS, Joaquim RADUA, Samuele CORTESE, Elena DRAGIOTI, Davy VANCAMPFORT, Lau Caspar THYGESEN, Harald ASCHAUER, Monika SCHLÖGELHOFER, Elena ASCHAUER, Andres SCHNEEBERGER, Christian G. HUBER, Gregor HASLER, Philippe CONUS, Kim Q. DO CUÉNOD, Roland VON KÄNEL, Gonzalo ARRONDO, Paolo FUSAR-POLI, Philip GORWOOD, Pierre-Michel LLORCA, Marie-Odile KREBS, Elisabetta SCANFERLA, Taishiro KISHIMOTO, Golam RABBANI, Karolina SKONIECZNA-ŻYDECKA, Paolo BRAMBILLA, Angela FAVARO, Akihiro TAKAMIYA, Leonardo ZOCCANTE, Marco COLIZZI, Julie BOURGIN, Karol KAMIŃSKI, Maryam MOGHADASIN, Soraya SEEDAT, Evan MATTHEWS, John WELLS, Emilia VASSILOPOULOU, Ary GADELHA, Kuan-Pin SU, Jun Soo KWON, Minah KIM, Tae YOUNG LEE, Oleg PAPSUEV, Denisa MANKOVÁ, Andrea BOSCUTTI, Cristiano GERUNDA, Diego SACCON, Elena RIGHI, Francesco MONACO, Giovanni CROATTO, Guido CEREDA, Jacopo DEMURTAS, Natascia BRONDINO, Nicola VERONESE, Paolo ENRICO, Pierluigi POLITI, Valentina CIAPPOLINO, Andrea PFENNIG, Andreas BECHDOLF, Andreas MEYER-LINDENBERG, Kai G. KAHL, Katharina DOMSCHKE, Michael BAUER, Nikolaos KOUTSOULERIS, Sibylle WINTER, Stefan BORGWARDT, Istvan BITTER, Judit BALAZS, Pál CZOBOR, Zsolt UNOKA, Dimitris MAVRIDIS, Konstantinos TSAMAKIS, Vasilios P. BOZIKAS, Chavit TUNVIRACHAISAKUL, Michael MAES, Teerayuth RUNGNIRUNDORN, Thitiporn SUPASITTHUMRONG, Ariful HAQUE, Andre R. BRUNONI, Carlos Gustavo COSTARDI, Felipe Barreto SCHUCH, Guilherme POLANCZYK, Jhoanne Merlyn LUIZ, Lais FONSECA, Luana V.M. APARICIO, Samira Silva VALVASSORI, Merete NORDENTOFT, Per B. VENDSBORG, Sofie Have HOFFMANN, Jihed SEHLI, Norman SARTORIUS, Sabina HEUSS, Daniel GUINART, Jane Elizabeth HAMILTON, John M. KANE, José M. RUBIO, Michael S. SAND, Ai KOYANAGI, Aleix SOLANES, Alvaro ANDREU-BERNABEU, Antonia San Jóse CACERES, Celso ARANGO, Covadonga M. DÍAZ-CANEJA, Diego Alberto HIDALGO-MAZZEI, Eduard VIETA, Javier GONZÁLEZ-PEÑAS, Lydia FORTEA, Mara José PARELLADA-REDONDO, Miquel Àngel FULLANA, Norma VERDOLINI, Eva ANDRLÍKOVÁ, Karolína JANKŮ, Mark John MILLAN, Mihaela HONCIUC, Anna M. MONIUSZKO-MALINOWSKA, Igor LONIEWSKI, Jerzy SAMOCHOWIEC, Łukasz KISZKIEL, Maria MARLICZ, Paweł Mateusz SOWA, Wojciech M. MARLICZ, Georgina SPIES, Brendon STUBBS, Joseph FIRTH, Sarah A. SULLIVAN, Asli Enez DARÇIN, Hatice Bagdatli AKSU, Nesrin DILBAZ, C. Onur NOYAN, Momoko KITAZAWA, Shunya KUROKAWA, Yuuki TAZAWA, Alejandro ANSELMI, Cecilia Valentina CRACCO, Ana Inés MACHADO, Natalia ESTRADE, Diego DE LEO, Jackie CURTIS, Michael BERK, Andre Ferrer CARVALHO, Philip B. WARD, Scott B. TEASDALE, Simon ROSENBAUM, Wolfgang MARX, Adrian Vasile HORODNIC, Liviu OPREA, Ovidiu Eugen ALEXINSCHI, Petru Iulian IFTENI, Serban TURLIUC, Tudor CIUHODARU, Alexandra BOLOŞ, Valentin Petre MATEI, Dorien H. NIEMAN, Iris E.C. SOMMER, Jim J. VAN OS, Thérèse A.M.J. VAN AMELSVOORT, Ching Fang SUN, Taiwei GUU, Can JIAO, Jieting ZHANG, Jialin FAN, Liye ZOU, Xin YU, Xinli CHI, Philippe DE TIMARY, Ruud VAN WINKEL, Bernardo NG, Edilberto PEÑA DE LEÓN, Ramon ARELLANO, Raquel ROMAN, Thelma SANCHEZ, Larisa G. MOVINA, Pedro MORGADO, Sofia BRISSOS, Oleg R. AIZBERG, Anna A. MOSINA, Damir KRINITSKI, James MUGISHA, Dena SADEGHI-BAHMANI, Farshad SHEYBANI, Masoud SADEGHI, Samira HADI, Serge BRAND, Antonia ERRÁZURIZ, Nicolas A. CROSSLEY, Dragana IGNJATOVIC-RISTIC, Carlos Alberto LÓPEZ-JARAMILLO, Dimitris EFTHYMIOU, Praveenlal KUTTICHIRA, Roy Abraham KALLIVAYALIL, Afzal A. JAVED, Muhammad Iqbal AFRIDI, Bawo Onesirosan JAMES, Omonefe Joy SEB-AKAHOMEN, Jess G. FIEDOROWICZ, Jeff D. DASKALAKIS, Lakshmi N. YATHAM, Lin YANG, Tarek A. OKASHA, Aïcha DAHDOUH, Jari TIIHONEN, Jae Il SHIN, Jinhee LEE, Ahmed MHALLA, Lotfi GAHA, Takoua BRAHIM, Kuanysh S. ALTYNBEKOV, Nikolay NEGAY, Saltanat NURMAGAMBETOVA, Yasser Abu JAMEI, Mark B. WEISER und Christoph Ulrich CORRELL, 2024. Global and risk-group stratified well-being and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic in adults. Results from the international COH-FIT Study. Psychiatry Research. 2024. Bd. 342, Nr. 115972. DOI 10.1016/j.psychres.2024.115972. Verfügbar unter: https://doi.org/10.26041/fhnw-11131

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