scholarly journals The Psychological Impact of COVID-19 on Individuals With and Without Mental Health Disorders

2021 ◽  
pp. 003329412110268
Author(s):  
Juliana Alvares Duarte Bonini Campos ◽  
Lucas Arrais Campos ◽  
Bianca Gonzalez Martins ◽  
Filomena Valadão Dias ◽  
Rodrigo Ruano ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Bipolar Disorder ◽  
Psychological Impact ◽  
Mental Health Disorders ◽  
Mental Health Disorder ◽  
Subjective Distress ◽  
Event Scale ◽  
History Of ◽  
Health Disorders ◽  
The Impact

Objective To identify people with history of mental health disorders before the COVID-19 pandemic in the Brazilian population and estimate the prevalence of mood swings and the subjective distress of the pandemic among individuals with or without mental health disorders. Methods Through an online survey, participants were asked about presence or absence of mental health disorders. In addition, they answered the Brunel Mood Scale and the Impact of Event Scale. The mean percentile of mood swing indicators and psychological impact scores were estimated, and data were analyzed by logistic regression. Results 13,248 people participated (70.5% women, mean age 35.4 years, 31.2% with history of mental health disorder). Women and younger people were more likely to be diagnosed with mental health disorder. All participants had significant changes in mood due to the pandemic. Anger, depressed mood, mental confusion, and fatigue were higher among individuals with bipolar disorder or with combined disorders. Individuals with mental health disorders had a greater subjective distress, especially the group with bipolar disorder (OR = 4.89 [3.64–6.56]) and combined disorders (OR = 6.89 [5.21–9.10]). Conclusion Individuals previously diagnosed with mental health disorders at some point in life are more vulnerable to psychological impact from the pandemic.

Mortality Associated with Incident Mental Health Disorders After Stroke

2007 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 274-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Osvaldo P. Almeida ◽  
Jianguo Xiao
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Psychotic Disorders ◽  
Mental Health Disorders ◽  
Mental Health Disorder ◽  
Stroke Patients ◽  
Post Stroke ◽  
Australian Community ◽  
History Of ◽  
Health Disorders

Objective: Sparse information is currently available about the incidence of the major psychiatric syndromes following a stroke and their long-term contribution to morbidity and mortality. This study was designed to determine: (1) the incidence of first ever mental health disorder in amongst stroke patients; (2) the 10-year mortality associated with incident post-stroke mental health disorders. Methods: Design: Retrospective cohort study. Setting: Entire Western Australian community. Participants: First-ever stroke in 1990. Subjects with a prior recorded history of any mental health disorder were excluded from the study. Main outcomes of interest: Incident mental health diagnoses and 10-year mortality. Results: 1,129 hospital stroke contacts were recorded in 1990, with 21 people dying on the same day of contact. Between 1990-2002 36.6% of the survivors received a mental health diagnosis (6.1 per 1,000 person-years): alcohol-related disorders (16.2%), dementia (12.1%), delirium (7.6%), psychotic disorders (6.7%), and depression (5.5%). Mental health disorder onset was usually within 6 months of the stroke. Patients with an incident psychotic disorder were twice as likely to die during the subsequent 10 years as post-stroke controls with no mental health disorder (risk ratio = 2.03, 95%CI = 1.39-2.95). Being a widow (HR = 1.61, 95%CI = 1.13-2.30) or having been born in ‘other countries’ as opposed to Australia (HR = 1.56, 95%CI = 1.15-2.11) was also associated with increased death hazard. Conclusions: Approximately 1 in 3 patients develop a mental health disorder after stroke, although incidence estimates are relatively low. Post-stroke psychosis is associated with greater 10-year mortality, but the mechanisms underlying such an association are yet to be determined.

scholarly journals Predictors of psychosocial outcome of bipolar disorder: data from the Stanley Foundation Bipolar Network

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis Bennett ◽  
Sophie Hodgetts ◽  
Andrew Close ◽  
Mark Frye ◽  
Heinz Grunze ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Bipolar Disorder ◽  
Psychosocial Functioning ◽  
Age At Onset ◽  
Mental Health Disorders ◽  
Psychosocial Outcome ◽  
Longitudinal Outcome ◽  
Health Disorders ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Gaf Scores

Abstract Background Impairments in psychosocial functioning have been demonstrated in 30–60% of adults with bipolar disorder (BD). However, the majority of studies investigating the effect of comorbid mental health disorders and age at onset outcomes in BD have focused on traditional outcome measures such as mood symptoms, mortality and treatment response. Therefore, this project aimed to investigate the impact of comorbid mental health disorders and age at onset on longitudinal psychosocial outcome in participants with BD. Method Mixed effects modelling was conducted using data from the Stanley Foundation Bipolar Network. Baseline factors were entered into a model, with Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) score as the longitudinal outcome measure. Relative model fits were calculated using Akaike’s Information Criterion. Results No individual comorbidities predicted lower GAF scores, however an interaction effect was demonstrated between attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and any anxiety disorder (t = 2.180, p = 0.030). Participants with BD I vs BD II (t = 2.023, p = 0.044) and those in the lowest vs. highest income class (t = 2.266, p = 0.024) predicted lower GAF scores. Age at onset (t = 1.672, p = 0.095) did not significantly predict GAF scores. Conclusions This is the first study to demonstrate the negative psychosocial effects of comorbid anxiety disorders and ADHD in BD. This study adds to the growing database suggesting that comorbid mental health disorders are a significant factor hindering psychosocial recovery.

scholarly journals Mental health disorders research in the countries of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), 2008–17, and the disease burden: Bibliometric study

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. e0250414
Author(s):  
Grant Lewison ◽  
Richard Sullivan ◽  
Cengiz Kiliç
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Bipolar Disorder ◽  
International Collaboration ◽  
Disease Burden ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Mental Health Disorders ◽  
Mental Health Disorder ◽  
Self Harm ◽  
Health Disorders ◽  
The Web

The 57 countries of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation are suffering from an increasing burden from mental health disorders. We investigated their research outputs during 2008–17 in the Web of Science in order to compare them with the burden from different mental health disorders and in different countries. The papers were identified with a complex filter based on title words and journals. Their addresses were parsed to give fractional country counts, show international collaboration, and also reveal country concentration on individual disorders and types of research. We found 17,920 papers in the decade, with output quadrupling. Foreign contributions accounted for 15% of addresses; they were from Europe (7%), Canada + USA (5%) and elsewhere (3%). They were much greater for Qatar and Uganda (> 60%), but less than 10% for Iran and Turkey. Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder were over-researched, but suicide and self-harm were seriously neglected, relative to their mental health disorder burdens. Although OIC research has been expanding rapidly, some countries have published little on this subject, perhaps because of stigma. Turkey collaborates relatively little internationally and as a result its papers received few citations. Among the large OIC countries, it has almost the highest relative mental health disorders burden, which is also growing rapidly.

The Association Between Mental Health Disorders and Non-Infectious Scleritis: A Prevalence Study and Review of the Literature

2021 ◽  
pp. 112067212110676
Author(s):  
Ahmad Abdel-Aty ◽  
Ninani Kombo
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Inflammatory Disease ◽  
Inflammatory Diseases ◽  
Systemic Disease ◽  
Mental Health Disorders ◽  
Mental Health Disorder ◽  
Psychological Effects ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Ocular Inflammatory Disease ◽  
Health Disorders

Chronic inflammatory diseases can cause significant psychosocial stress in affected patients. Few studies have examined the psychological effects of ocular inflammatory disease and no studies have examined the psychological effects of scleritis. In this study we evaluate the prevalence of mental health disorders in scleritis patients and we conduct a comprehensive review of the literature on the mental health effects of ocular inflammatory diseases. 162 patients (195 eyes) presenting to a tertiary care center with scleritis were identified. At least one comorbid mental health disorder was diagnosed in 35 patients (21.6%), most commonly major depression in 11.7%, generalized anxiety disorder in 9.3%, and substance use disorder in 6.2%. There were no significant differences in the length of an episode of scleritis or in the probability of symptom resolution between patients with a mental health disorder and other patients. In a review of the literature, 30 manuscripts met the inclusion criteria. The majority of manuscripts (83.3%) were focused on uveitis patients. Eight of these studies were focused on patients with uveitis in the context of systemic disease. The most commonly reported mental health disorders reported were anxiety and depression. An average of 31.3% of patients with ocular inflammatory disease had depression and 35.0% had anxiety. Similar to other chronic illnesses, ocular inflammatory disease may be a significant psychosocial stressor. Future studies will further elucidate the relationship between these diseases and mental health.

The Impact of Comorbid Mental Health Disorders on Complications Following Cervical Spine Surgery With Minimum 2-Year Surveillance

Spine ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (21) ◽  
pp. 1455-1462 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bassel G. Diebo ◽  
Joshua D. Lavian ◽  
Shian Liu ◽  
Neil V. Shah ◽  
Daniel P. Murray ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Cervical Spine ◽  
Spine Surgery ◽  
Mental Health Disorders ◽  
Cervical Spine Surgery ◽  
Health Disorders ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Effects of Mental Health Disorders on Nursing Home Residents’ Nine-Month Pain Trajectories

Pain Medicine ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 488-500
Author(s):  
Penny L Brennan ◽  
Sonya SooHoo
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Nursing Home ◽  
Nursing Home Residents ◽  
Mental Health Disorders ◽  
Mental Health Disorder ◽  
Class Membership ◽  
Pain Frequency ◽  
Health Disorders ◽  
Pain Trajectories

Abstract Objective To determine the key classes of nursing home residents’ nine-month pain trajectories, the influence of residents’ mental health disorders on membership in these classes, and nine-month health-related outcomes associated with pain trajectory class membership. Methods Four times over a nine-month period, the MDS 3.0 resident assessment instrument was used to record the demographic characteristics, mental health disorder diagnoses, pain characteristics, and health and functioning outcomes of 2,539 Department of Veterans Affairs Community Living Center (VA CLC) residents. Growth mixture modeling was used to estimate the key classes of residents’ nine-month pain trajectories, the influence of residents’ mental health disorders on their pain trajectory class membership, and the associations of class membership with residents’ health and functioning outcomes at nine-month follow-up. Results Four-class solutions best described nursing home residents’ nine-month trajectories of pain frequency, severity, and interference. Residents with dementia and severe mental illness diagnoses were less likely, and those with depressive disorder, PTSD, and substance use disorder diagnoses more likely, to belong to adverse nine-month pain trajectory classes. Membership in adverse pain frequency and pain severity trajectory classes, and in trajectory classes characterized by initially high but steeply declining pain interference, portended more depressive symptoms but better cognitive and physical functioning at nine-month follow-up. Conclusions Nursing home residents’ mental health disorder diagnoses help predict their subsequent pain frequency, severity, and interference trajectories. This may be clinically useful information for improving pain assessment and treatment approaches for nursing home residents.

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