The emergence of the Corona virus epidemic has led to a significant rise in major depression and anxiety disorders globally, affecting women and young people more in 2020, which is the first global estimate of the impact of Corona on mental health, and the study, published in the Journal of The Lancet , that an additional 53 million cases of major depressive disorder and 76 million cases of anxiety disorders were due to the pandemic.
The authors of the study said that “countries hardest hit by the pandemic in 2020 saw the largest increases in cases of major depressive disorder and anxiety disorders,” and called for urgent action by governments and policy makers to strengthen mental health systems globally to meet the growing demand due to the pandemic.
According to a report by the site time now news Countries with high rates of COVID-19 and significant decreases in the movement of people as a result of measures such as closures and school closures have seen the largest increases in the prevalence of depressive and anxiety disorders.
Even before the pandemic, mental health care systems in most countries were historically under-resourced and unregulated in service delivery, said study lead author Dr Damian Santomauro School of Public Health, University of Queensland, Australia. The mentality due to COVID-19 is going to be difficult, but taking no action shouldn’t be an option.”
To date, no study has analyzed the global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the prevalence of depressive disorder and anxiety disorders in 2020. To reach this conclusion, a systematic literature review was performed to identify population survey data published between January 1, 2020 and January 29, 2021. The systematic review identified 5683 A unique data source, of which 48 (one reported across two regions) met the inclusion criteria Most studies were from Western Europe (22) and high-income North America (14), with other studies from Australia (5), and high-income Asia and the Pacific (5), East Asia (2), and Central Europe (1).
The meta-analysis indicates that an increased incidence of COVID-19 and decreased movement of people were associated with an increased prevalence of major depressive disorder and anxiety disorders, indicating that the countries most affected by the epidemic in 2020 experienced the largest increases in the prevalence of disorders. In the absence of an epidemic, the model estimates an incidence of 193 1 million major depressive disorder cases (2,471 cases per 100,000 population) globally in 2020. However, the analysis shows that there were 246 million cases (3.153 per 100,000 population), which is a 28% increase (53 million additional cases).
The results showed that more than 35 million of the additional cases were in women, compared to nearly 18 million in men, and the study said: “About 52 million of the additional cases were in women, compared to about 24 million in men.”
Young people were also more affected by major depressive disorder and anxiety disorders in 2020 than older age groups.