Exploring Depressive Symptoms Among Healthcare Professionals and the General Population During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Brazil | Zendy

Alex Bacadini França | Zendy; Clarissa Trzesniak | Zendy; Patrícia Waltz Schelini | Zendy; Gerson Hiroshi Yoshinari Júnior | Zendy; Luciano Magalhães Vitorino | Zendy

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Exploring Depressive Symptoms Among Healthcare Professionals and the General Population During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Brazil

Author(s) -

Alex Bacadini França,

Clarissa Trzesniak,

Patrícia Waltz Schelini,

Gerson Hiroshi Yoshinari Júnior,

Luciano Magalhães Vitorino

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

psychological reports

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.645

H-Index - 67

eISSN - 1558-691X

pISSN - 0033-2941

DOI - 10.1177/00332941211025264

Subject(s) - pandemic , health care , population , depression (economics) , covid-19 , health professionals , mood , psychology , psychiatry , clinical psychology , medicine , disease , environmental health , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , economics , macroeconomics , economic growth

Our study aimed to examine the symptoms that might play a role in the co-occurrence of 9 DSM-5 symptom criteria of major depression among Brazil's adult population and healthcare professionals after three months of detecting the new coronavirus in Brazil. We estimated regularized Gaussian graphical models for both samples and compared the network structures. Depressed mood was the most central symptom in the general population network compared to the healthcare professional network. The findings revealed some individual symptoms showed a differential association between the general population and healthcare professionals. Those symptoms may be valuable targets for future research and treatment.

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