COVID-19 pandemic's impact on networks of depression and anxiety in naturalistic transdiagnostic sample of outpatients with non-psychotic mental illness.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has caused an unprecedented disruption of daily lives and a mental health crisis. The present study examined how the depression and anxiety symptom network changed during the COVID-19 pandemic in a naturalistic transdiagnostic sample with non-psychotic mental illness.

Materials and methods

A total of 224 psychiatric outpatients before the pandemic and 167 outpatients during the pandemic were included in the study and were assessed for the Patient Health Questionnaire and the Beck Anxiety Inventory. The network of depression and anxiety symptoms before and during the pandemic were estimated separately and were assessed differences.

Results

The network comparison analysis showed a significant structural differe

SUBMITTER: Kim ST 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10040589 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature