ArticleJournal of affective disorders2022
Assessment of the difference in depressive symptoms of the Korean adult population before and during the COVID-19 pandemic using a community health survey.
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- Identifying Adolescents at Risk for Emotional Disorders with Latent Profile Analysis: A Personalized, Transdiagnostic Preventive Intervention.Child psychiatry and human development · 2026Article
- Changes in the mean incidence and variance of orthopedic diseases before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Korea: a retrospective study.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2023Article
- Assessing the Fear Factor of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Korea Using the COVID-19 Phobia Scale: A Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of Korean medical science · 2023Article
- Changes in the Incidence of Cardiovascular Diseases during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Korea.Journal of personalized medicine · 2022Article
- Changes in the Mean of and Variance in Psychological Disease Incidences before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Korean Adult Population.Journal of personalized medicine · 2022Article
- Socio-economic factors associated with mental health outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe aim of this study was to evaluate the rate of depression during the COVID-19 pandemic compared to that during the prepandemic period.
methodsData from participants in the Korean Community Health Survey in 2019 and 2020 aged ≥ 19 years old were analyzed. In total, the data of 223,306 participants from the 2020 group were compared with the data of 217,133 participants from the 2019 group regarding the experience and severity of depression. The experience of depression was surveyed in terms of a history of sadness or despair for ≥2 weeks in the last year. In addition, the PHQ-9 scores were used, and participants with PHQ-9 scores ≥10 were recategorized as having moderate to severe depression. The odds for depression of the 2020 group compared to the 2019 group based on the survey and PHQ-9 scores were calculated using simple or multiple logistic regression with complex sampling with weighted values.
resultsThe rate of depression experience was lower in the 2020 group than in the 2019 group. The odds of experiencing depression were lower in the 2020 group than in the 2019 group (adjusted odds ratio [aOR] = 0.95, 95% confidence intervals [95% CI] = 0.91-0.98, P = 0.004). The odds of moderate to severe depression were also lower in the 2020 group than in the 2019 group (aOR=0.92, 95% CI=0.88-0.97, P = 0.001).
conclusionThe rate of depression experience was not higher during the COVID-19 pandemic than during the prepandemic period in Korea.
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