Access and use of general and mental health services before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To quantify access to health services during the COVID-19 pandemic and measure the change in use between the prepandemic and the pandemic periods in a population with assessment of psychological distress or diagnosis of mental disorders.

Data sources

We developed and piloted a search syntax and adapted it to enter the following databases from 1 January 2020 to 31 March 2023: PubMed/MEDLINE, PsycINFO, Web of Science, Epistemonikos and the WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform. We reran the searches from the end of the original search to 3 December 2024.

Design

We systematically screened titles, abstracts and full texts of retrieved records.

Eligibility criteria

We included observational studies on any populations and regions, covering he

SUBMITTER: Sculco C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11904334 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature