Living Systematic Review of Mental Health in COVID-19
On April 13, 2020, the DEPRESSD team initiated a new project - Living Systematic Review of Mental Health in COVID-19. Mental health during the current COVID-19 outbreak may be negatively affected by uncertainties associated with long-term personal, social, and societal implications of the crisis and from isolation due to social distancing and movement restrictions. Given the limitations in the quantity and quality of evidence available from previous infectious disease outbreaks and the different characteristics of the COVID-19 outbreak, synthesis of new mental health evidence that is being generated during COVID-19 is urgently needed.
The objectives of the living systematic review are to evaluate (1) changes in mental health symptoms from prior to COVID-19 to during the pandemic and across different time points in the pandemic; and (2) the effect of interventions on mental health symptoms during COVID-19.
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Results of the living systematic review are updated and posted here
Team Members:
Brett Thombs
Yin Wu
Kexin Li
Enqi Wang
Andrea Benedetti
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Sheryl Sun
Diana Jiang
Jill Boruff
Danielle Rice
​Suiqiong Fan
Marleine Azar
Letong Li
Tiffany Dal Santo
Sarah Markham
Amina Tasleem
Anneke Yao
Hassan Khan
Protocols:
Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Protocol for a Living Systematic Review of Symptom Levels, Factors Associated with Symptoms, and Intervention Effectiveness [PDF]. Available on the Open Science Framework [Check]. The living systematic review is also described in an editorial in the Journal of Psychosomatic Research [Check].