ArticleFrontiers in psychology2021
Mental Health Consequences of Adversity in Australia: National Bushfires Associated With Increased Depressive Symptoms, While COVID-19 Pandemic Associated With Increased Symptoms of Anxiety.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
12 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- A narrative systematic review of changes in mental health symptoms from before to during the COVID-19 pandemic.Psychological medicine · 2024Pooled it
- A Systematic Review of the Impact of Wildfires on Sleep Disturbances.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- Anxiety and mood disorders from childhood to adulthood in very preterm and term-born individuals.Pediatric research · 2026Article
- Adapting epidemiological research through unexpected environmental events: COVID-19 and bushfires impacts on the administration of the PATH cohort study.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2025Article
- Pandemic impacts and experiences after disaster in Australia: qualitative study of compound impacts following the Black Summer bushfires.BJPsych open · 2024Article
- Impacts of the 2019/20 bushfires and COVID-19 pandemic on the physical and mental health of older Australians: a cross-sectional survey.Family practice · 2023Article
- The impact of strict lockdowns on the mental health and well-being of people living in Australia during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.BJPsych open · 2023Article
- The impact of COVID-19 and bushfires on the mental health of Australian adolescents: a cross-sectional study.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2023Article
- The impact of prolonged landscape fire smoke exposure on women with asthma in Australia.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2022Article
- Schooling upheaval during COVID-19: troubling consequences for students' return to school.Australian educational researcher · 2022Article
- The Symbiosis of Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy and Telemental Health: A Review.Frontiers in virtual reality · 2022Article
- Public Psychosocial and Behavioral Responses in the First Wave of COVID-19 Pandemic: A Large Survey in China.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
High quality monitoring of mental health and well-being over an extended period is essential to understand how communities respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and how to best tailor interventions. Multiple community threats may also have cumulative impact on mental health, so examination across several contexts is important. The objective of this study is to report on changes in mental health and well-being in response to the Australian bushfires and COVID-19 pandemic. This study utilized an Experience-Sampling-Method (ESM), using the smartphone-based mood monitoring application, MoodPrism. Participants were prompted once a day to complete a brief survey inquiring about symptoms of depression and anxiety, and several well-being indices, including arousal, emotional valence, self-esteem, motivation, social connectedness, meaning and purpose, and control. Participants were
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.