Long term mental health trajectories after disasters and pandemics: A multilingual systematic review of prevalence, risk and protective factors

EA Newnham; ELP Mergelsberg; Y Chen; Y Kim; L Gibbs; PL Dzidic; M Ishida DaSilva; EYY Chan; K Shimomura; Z Narita; Z Huang; J Leaning

Journal article

Long term mental health trajectories after disasters and pandemics: A multilingual systematic review of prevalence, risk and protective factors

EA Newnham, ELP Mergelsberg, Y Chen, Y Kim, L Gibbs, PL Dzidic, M Ishida DaSilva, EYY Chan, K Shimomura, Z Narita, Z Huang, J Leaning

Clinical Psychology Review | Published : 2022

DOI: 10.1016/j.cpr.2022.102203

Abstract

The patterns of long-term psychological response after disasters and pandemics remain unclear. We aimed to determine the trajectories for post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS), depression and anxiety prevalence following disasters and pandemic exposure; and identify associated risk and protective factors. A systematic review of the English, Chinese, and Japanese longitudinal mental health literature was conducted. We searched Cochrane, MEDLINE, ProQuest, PsycINFO, PubMed, Web of Science, and CINAHL (English), CNKI and SINOMED (Chinese) and CiNii (Japanese) for studies published between January 2000 and May 2022. Following a pre-specified protocol (PROSPERO: CRD42020206424), conditional linea..

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