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Self-reported mental health among individuals with mental disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

S. Østergaard ,
P. Kølbæk ,
M. Speed  and
O. Jefsen
S. Østergaard*
Affiliation:
Department Of Affective Disorders, Aarhus University Psychiatric Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
P. Kølbæk
Affiliation:
Psychosis Research Unit, Aarhus University Hospital - Psychiatry, Aarhus N, Denmark
M. Speed
Affiliation:
Department Of Affective Disorders, Aarhus University Psychiatric Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark Department Of Affective Disorders, Aarhus University Hospital - Psychiatry, Aarhus N, Denmark
O. Jefsen
Affiliation:
Department Of Affective Disorders, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
*
*Corresponding Author.

Abstract

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Background

Individuals with mental illness may be particularly vulnerable to the negative impact that the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic seems to have on mental health. Most prior studies on this topic are however limited by non-random sampling, lack of information on non-respondents, and self-reported diagnoses. Here, we aimed at overcoming these limitations by means of random sampling in a population of clinically diagnosed patients, acquisition of clinical and socio-demographic data on non-respondents, and weighting of results informed by attrition.

Methods

We conducted a cross-sectional questionnaire-based online survey inviting six-thousand randomly drawn patients from the psychiatric services of the Central Denmark Region. They survey data were merged with sociodemographic- and clinical data from medical records on all invitees, which enabled analysis of attrition and weighting of results. The questionnaire included the 18-item Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI-18), the 5-item World Health Organization Well-Being Index (WHO-5), and 14 questions evaluating the perceived severity of symptoms during the four-week nationwide lockdown of Denmark in March/April 2020 – using the pre-pandemic period as reference. Reasons for worsening or improvement in mental health during lockdown were also reported.

Results

The preliminary results are as follows: The response rate was ≈20%. Approximately half the respondents reported that their mental health had deteriorated during lockdown, while the other half reported either no change (≈33%) or improvement (≈16%). The most commonly reported reasons for deterioration in mental health were disruption of routines and loneliness.

Conclusion

The final results will be shown at the conference.

Disclosure

No significant relationships.

Keywords

COVID-19psychopathologypandemicmental health
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European Psychiatry , Volume 64 , Special Issue S1: Abstracts of the 29th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2021 , pp. S37
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