ArticleJournal of epidemiology and community health2017
Mental health impacts of flooding: a controlled interrupted time series analysis of prescribing data in England.
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- Mental Health Disorders Due to Disaster Exposure: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Cureus · 2023Review
- Perspectives on early insights: pediatric cancer caregiving amidst natural calamities - A call for future preparedness.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Assessing United States County-Level Exposure for Research on Tropical Cyclones and Human Health.Environmental health perspectives · 2020Article
- Impact of heavy rains of 2018 in western Japan: disaster-induced health outcomes among the population of Innoshima Island.Heliyon · 2020Article
- Flood- and Weather-Damaged Homes and Mental Health: An Analysis Using England's Mental Health Survey.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Mental Health Effects in Primary Care Patients 18 Months After a Major Wildfire in Fort McMurray: Risk Increased by Social Demographic Issues, Clinical Antecedents, and Degree of Fire Exposure.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2019Article
- The English National Cohort Study of Flooding and Health: the change in the prevalence of psychological morbidity at year two.BMC public health · 2018Article
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Abstract
backgroundThere is emerging evidence that people affected by flooding suffer adverse impacts on their mental well-being, mostly based on self-reports.
methodsWe examined prescription records for drugs used in the management of common mental disorder among primary care practices located in the vicinity of recent large flood events in England, 2011-2014. A controlled interrupted time series analysis was conducted of the number of prescribing items for antidepressant drugs in the year before and after the flood onset. Pre-post changes were compared by distance of the practice from the inundated boundaries among 930 practices located within 10 km of a flood.
resultsAfter control for deprivation and population density, there was an increase of 0.59% (95% CI 0.24 to 0.94) prescriptions in the postflood year among practices located within 1 km of a flood over and above the change observed in the furthest distance band. The increase was greater in more deprived areas.
conclusionsThis study suggests an increase in prescribed antidepressant drugs in the year after flooding in primary care practices close to recent major floods in England. The degree to which the increase is actually concentrated in those flooded can only be determined by more detailed linkage studies.
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