What symptoms best predict severe distress in an online survey of UK health and social care staff facing COVID-19: development of the two-item Tipping Point Index.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

COVID-19 has altered standard thresholds for identifying anxiety and depression. A brief questionnaire to determine when individuals are at a tipping point for severe anxiety or depression would greatly help decisions about when to seek assessment or treatment.

Design

Data were collected as part of the Frontline-COVID Study, a cross-sectional national online survey with good coverage of health and social care settings. New questionnaire items reflecting when coping was actually breaking down were compared with standard measures of severe anxiety and depression. Data were collected between 27 May and 23 July 2020.

Setting

The majority of participants worked in hospitals (53%), in nursing or care homes (15%), or in other community settings (30%).

Participa

SUBMITTER: Brewin CR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8406458 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature