SynthesisEpidemiology and psychiatric sciences2023
COVID-19 risk, course and outcome in people with mental disorders: a systematic review and meta-analyses.
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19 citing papers in PubMed.
- Direct and indirect associations linking COVID-19 severity to internalizing disorders and symptoms among participants in New Haven, CT.Journal of affective disorders · 2026Article
- Rethinking mental disorders in COVID-19: evidence from prepandemic longitudinal data.Current opinion in psychiatry · 2026Review
- Mortality Rates According to the Time of Onset of Mental Disorders Among Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019 in South Korea: A Nationwide Retrospective Study.Psychiatry investigation · 2026Article
- The role of genetic liability for psychiatric disorders and personality traits in post covid syndrome: data from three Nordic population cohorts.EClinicalMedicine · 2026Article
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- Changes in drug-use behaviors among people who use drugs with comorbid psychiatric disorders across the COVID-19 pandemic: a three-phase longitudinal cohort study.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Influence of lifestyle factors on susceptibility, disease course and recovery from post COVID-19 syndrome: a scoping review.BMJ public health · 2026Article
- Identifying psychiatric morbidity and comorbidity patterns associated with COVID-19 mortality. A register-based cohort study from Catalonia.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2025Article
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- Long-term symptoms after SARS-CoV-2 infection in a cohort of healthcare workers in Qatar.BMC infectious diseases · 2025Article
- COVID-19 in the years 2020 to 2022 in Germany: effects of comorbidities and co-medications based on a large-scale database analysis.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Genetic analyses point to alterations in immune-related pathways underpinning the association between psychiatric disorders and COVID-19.Molecular psychiatry · 2025Article
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- Deaths with COVID-19 and from all-causes following first-ever SARS-CoV-2 infection in individuals with preexisting mental disorders: A national cohort study from Czechia.PLoS medicine · 2024Article
- Psychiatric outcomes in outpatients affected by long COVID: A link between mental health and persistence of olfactory complaint.World journal of psychiatry · 2024Article
- COVID-19-associated mortality in individuals with serious mental disorders in Sweden during the first two years of the pandemic- a population-based register study.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Risk of COVID-19 Hospitalization and Protection Associated With mRNA Vaccination Among US Adults With Psychiatric Disorders.Influenza and other respiratory viruses · 2024Article
- Long-Term Quality of Life after COVID-19 Infection: Cross-Sectional Study of Health Care Workers.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
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Abstract
aimsIt has been suggested that people with mental disorders have an elevated risk to acquire severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 and to be disproportionally affected by coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) once infected. We aimed to analyse the COVID-19 infection rate, course and outcome, including mortality and long COVID, in people with anxiety, depressive, neurodevelopmental, schizophrenia spectrum and substance use disorders relative to control subjects without these disorders.
methodsThis study constitutes a preregistered systematic review and random-effects frequentist and Bayesian meta-analyses. Major databases were searched up until 27 June 2023.
resultsEighty-one original articles were included reporting 304 cross-sectional and prospective effect size estimates (median
conclusionsOnce infected, people with pre-existing mental disorders are at an elevated risk for a severe COVID-19 course and outcome, including long COVID and mortality, relative to people without pre-existing mental disorders, despite an infection risk not significantly increased.
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