Prevalence of Psychological Morbidities Among General Population, Healthcare Workers and COVID-19 Patients Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Overview

Journal Psychiatry Res

Specialty Psychiatry

Date 2020 Aug 24

PMID 32829073

Citations 257

Authors

Yuvaraj Krishnamoorthy

Ramya Nagarajan

Ganesh Kumar Saya

Vikas Menon

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Abstract

This review was done to synthesize the existing evidence on the prevalence of various psychological morbidities among general public, healthcare workers and COVID-19 patients amidst this pandemic situation. Systematic searches were conducted in various databases and search engines such as Medline, Chinese national knowledge infrastructure, Cochrane library, ScienceDirect, and Google Scholar from inception until 22 April 2020. Newcastle Ottawa scale was used to assess the quality of included studies. We carried out a meta-analysis with random-effects model and reported pooled prevalence with 95% confidence intervals (CIs).A total of 50 studies were included in the review. Only seven studies (14%) had low risk of bias. Pooled prevalence rate of psychological morbidities includes poor sleep quality (40%), stress (34%), psychological distress (34%), insomnia (30%), post-traumatic stress symptoms (27%), anxiety (26%), depression (26%). Pooled prevalence rate of psychological morbidities with respect to impact of event due to COVID-19 pandemic was 44% (95%CI-42% to 47%). The burden of these psychological morbidities was highest among the COVID-19 patients followed by healthcare workers and general population.

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