Ji Ho Lee|Hocheol Lee|Ji Eon Kim|Seok Jun Moon|Eun Woo Nam
Analysis of personal and national factors that influence depression in individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic: a web-based cross-sectional survey
Yonsei University|Yonsei University|Yonsei University|Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs|Yonsei University
world health organization declared coronavirus disease covid19 pandemic march 11 2020 previous studies infectious diseases showed infectious diseases cause physical damage infected individuals also damage mental health public therefore study aims analyze factors affected depression public covid19 pandemic provide evidence covid19related mental health policies emphasize need prepare mental health issues related potential infectious disease outbreaks futurethis study performed following statistical analyses analyze factors influence depression public covid19 pandemic first confirm level depression public country participants depression plotted boxplot graph analysis second confirm personal national factors influence depression individuals multilevel analysis conducted result median patient health questionnaire9 phq9 score participants 6 median higher overall median philippines indonesia paraguay suggesting higher level depression personal variables depression higher females males higher participants experienced discrimination due covid19 contrast depression lower older participants good subjective health practiced personal hygiene prevention national variables depression higher government response stringency index score higher life expectancy higher social capital higher contrast depression lower literacy rates higherour study reveals depression higher participants living countries higher stringency index scores participants living countries maintaining high level vigilance safety cannot criticized however current situation coexisting covid19 become inevitable inflexible stringent policies increase depression public may also decrease resilience covid19 compromise preparations coexistence covid19 accordingly establishing policies social distancing quarantine country consider context country