Mental health in Europe during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic caused immediate and far-reaching disruption to society, the economy, and health-care services. We synthesised evidence on the effect of the pandemic on mental health and mental health care in high-income European countries. We included 177 longitudinal and repeated cross-sectional studies comparing prevalence or incidence of mental health problems, mental health symptom severity in people with pre-existing mental health conditions, or mental health service use before versus during the pandemic, or between different timepoints of the pandemic. We found that epidemiological studies reported higher prevalence of some mental health problems during the pandemic compared with before it, but that in most cases this increase reduced over time. Conversely, studies of health r

SUBMITTER: Ahmed N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10259832 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature