Prevalence of Mental Health Problems During Virus Epidemics in the General Public, Health Care Workers and Survivors: A Rapid Review of the Evidence

  1. Simeon Joel Zürcher
  2. Philipp Kerksieck
  3. Christine Adamus
  4. Christian Markus Burr
  5. Anja I. Lehmann
  6. Flavia Katharina Huber
  7. Dirk Richter

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  1. Version published to 10.3389/fpubh.2020.560389
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    Table 1: Rigor

    Institutional Review Board Statementnot detected.
    Randomizationnot detected.
    Blindingnot detected.
    Power Analysisnot detected.
    Sex as a biological variablenot detected.

    Table 2: Resources

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    PubMed was searched on April 1, 2020 with a broad search strategy (see Supplementary Table 1). 2.2 Participants, Interventions, and Comparators: Any type of quantitative study that provided prevalence rates of MHP in adults (≥18 years) during and after epidemic outbreaks, published in English from the year 2000 to March 31, 2020 was included.
    PubMed
    suggested: (PubMed, RRID:SCR_004846)

    Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).

    Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
    Strengths and Limitations: An important strength of our study is the inclusion of a broad range of populations that may be affected by MHP during or after an epidemic. This review provides an essential overview of a highly relevant public health topic since the impact of impaired mental health itself on individuals, society and economy can be substantial. Furthermore, the data shown (Tables 1–3) allows for further interpretations and delivers insights to aspects that are of interest for researchers, practitioners and policy planning (e.g. country specific prevalence rates). Limitations may arise from our search strategy since we searched for scientific publication on PubMed and did not screen reference lists of relevant articles. Additionally, no quality assessment of the studies was conducted. Further limitations arise from the large heterogeneity and methodological issues (see sections of mental health problems and methodological issues in this paper). At the same time, the heterogeneity of integrated studies is an asset, as they offer an extensive perspective on the studied issue. 5 Conclusion: In this rapid review of 74 original articles, we found a large range in prevalence rates of MHP such as anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress symptoms or disorders, during and after epidemics across the general public, HCW, and survivors. MHP might be especially prominent among HCW and survivors that are directly affected by epidemics and face a real threat of infection and dif...

    Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.

    Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.

    Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.

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    • No protocol registration statement was detected.

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