Open AccessPrevalence and risk factors of psychiatric symptoms and diagnoses before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: findings from the ELSA-Brasil COVID-19 mental health cohort
Author(s) -
André R. Brui,
Paulo Suen,
Pedro Starzynski Bacchi,
Laís B. Razza,
Izio Klein,
Leonardo Afonso dos Santos,
Itamar de Souza Santos,
Leandro Valiengo,
José Gallucci Neto,
María Alejandra Moreno,
Bianca Silva Pinto,
Larissa de Cássia Silva Félix,
Juliana Pereira de Sousa,
María Carmen Viana,
Pamela Marques Forte,
Marcia Cristina de Altisent Oliveira Cardoso,
Márcio Sommer Bittencourt,
Rebeca Pelosof,
Luciana Lima de Siqueira,
Daniel Fatori,
Helena Bellini,
Priscila Vilela Silveira Bueno,
Ives Cavalcante Passos,
Maria Angélica Nunes,
Giovanni Abrahão Salum,
Sarah Bauermeister,
Jordan W. Smoller,
Paulo A Lotufo,
Isabela M. Benseñor
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
psychological medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.857
H-Index - 209
eISSN - 1469-8978
pISSN - 0033-2917
DOI - 10.1017/s0033291721001719
Subject(s) - anxiety , depression (economics) , medicine , mental health , psychiatry , pandemic , psychopathology , cohort study , confidence interval , covid-19 , clinical psychology , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , economics , macroeconomics
There is mixed evidence on increasing rates of psychiatric disorders and symptoms during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in 2020. We evaluated pandemic-related psychopathology and psychiatry diagnoses and their determinants in the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Health (ELSA-Brasil) São Paulo Research Center.