ReviewBJPsych open2022
Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and previous pandemics, epidemics and economic crises on mental health: systematic review.
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- Interventions to Foster Mental Health and Reintegration in Individuals Who Are Unemployed: Systematic Review.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2025Pooled it
- Individual socioeconomic position among the general population and economic downturns-related perceived stress, psychological resilience, and wellbeing in Thailand.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Income, Educational Level, and Depressive Symptoms in a Time of Multiple Crises: Trends Revealed by High-Frequency Mental Health Surveillance in Germany, 2019–2024.Deutsches Arzteblatt international · 2025Observational
- The relationship between financial disruption during the COVID-19 pandemic and mental health: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of public health research · 2025Review
- Validation of a machine learning model for indirect screening of suicidal ideation in the general population.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Follow-up of telemedicine mental health interventions amid COVID-19 pandemic.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Machine learning and natural language processing to assess the emotional impact of influencers' mental health content on Instagram.PeerJ. Computer science · 2024Article
- The Mental Health Impacts of a Pandemic: A Multiaxial Conceptual Model for COVID-19.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Effect of Nucleic Acid Screening Measures on COVID-19 Transmission in Cities of Different Scales and Assessment of Related Testing Resource Demands-Evidence from China.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundA rise in mental illness is expected to follow the COVID-19 pandemic, which has also been projected to lead to a deep global economic recession, further adding to risk factors.
aimsThe aim of this review was to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and previous pandemics, epidemics and economic crises on mental health.
methodSearches were conducted in PubMed, Web of Science, PsycINFO and Sociological Abstracts. We included studies of all populations exposed to the COVID-19 pandemic, and other similar pandemics/epidemics and economic crises, compared with non-exposed time periods or regions. The outcome was mental health.
resultsThe 174 included studies assessed mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic (87 studies), 2008 economic crisis (84 studies) and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic (three studies). Outcomes were divided into affective disorders, suicides, mental healthcare utilisation and other mental health. COVID-19 pandemic studies were of lesser quality than those for the economic crisis or SARS epidemic. Most studies for all exposures showed increases in affective disorders and other mental health problems. For economic crisis exposure, increases in mental healthcare utilisation and suicides were also found, but these findings were mixed for COVID-19 pandemic exposure. This is probably because of quarantine measures affecting help-seeking and shorter follow-ups of studies of COVID-19 pandemic exposure.
conclusionsOur findings highlight the importance of available, accessible and sustainable mental health services. Also, socioeconomically disadvantaged populations should be particular targets of policy interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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