The COVIDMENT project - a collaboration of leading science groups in six countries in Northern Europe focusing on the long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on public health, mental health, received a substantial grant to continue their research. english.hi.is/news/140_milli…

New preprint: Elevated symptoms of depression and anxiety among family members and friends of critically ill COVID-19 patients - An observational study of five cohorts across four countries medrxiv.org/content/10.110… COVIDMENT Unnur Valdimarsdóttir Omid V. Ebrahimi

How long can adverse physical symptoms last after COVID-19 infection? ⚡️ New multinational study on the prevalence of severe physical symptom after C-19 infection in 65 000 adults across 4 countries 6 up to 27 months (> 2 years). A 🧵: Preprint: 10.1101/2023.04.18.23288720

📢Bra nyheter📷Ny publikation kommer snart! // New publication in press at The Lancet Regional Health - Europe! Link: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Anikó Lovik Chloe Fawns-Ritchie Ingibjörg Magnúsdóttir Helga Ask Omid V. Ebrahimi Unnur Valdimarsdóttir COVIDMENT

Our new paper in The Lancet Reg Health-Europe examines the mental health burden of having a significant person (e.g. family member) infected, hospitalised, ICU-admitted or die by COVID-19 in 168 783 adults across 4 countries 🧵 Important work by Anikó Lovik, COVIDMENT thelancet.com/journals/lanep…

Family members and close friends of people who have been in intensive care for #COVID19 are over 40 percent more likely to experience symptoms of #depression than others, a study in The Lancet Reg Health-Europe shows. Research by Anikó Lovik. @Omtanke2020 COVIDMENT news.ki.se/increase-in-an…

The Lancet Reg Health-Europe Anikó Lovik Omtanke2020 COVIDMENT Link to publication ⬇️ thelancet.com/journals/lanep…

Researchers at KI and COVIDMENT have charted the prevalence of #LongCovid up to 2 years after #SARSCoV2 infection. Most affected were people who had severe #COVID19 while the researchers found no elevated prevalence in those who had never been bedridden. news.ki.se/long-covid-mos…

"COVID-19 illness severity and 2-year prevalence of physical symptoms" has been published in Lancet RH Europe. Important project lead by Qing Shen, Emily Joyce, Omid V. Ebrahimi and Maria Didriksen in the COVIDMENT collaboration. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #COVID19

The results of a new study by the COVIDMENT group indicate that the severity of the illness caused by #COVID19 is a determining factor in the risk of long-term physical symptoms of those who become infected. Centre of Public Health Sciences Thor Aspelund Unnur Valdimarsdóttir english.hi.is/news/long_covi…

New preprint of a COVIDMENT project lead by Mary Barker of Omtanke2020 'Mental illness and COVID-19 vaccination: a multinational investigation of observational & register-based data' #mentalhealth #vaccination #Covid medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Kind of fun to see in which countries people picked up our paper 'Elevated symptoms of depression and anxiety among family members and friends of critically ill COVID-19 patients' in The Lancet Reg Health-Europe Project was part of COVIDMENT dundee.altmetric.com/details/153758…

Excited for our upcoming annual meeting in Stockholm on June 3-4, 2024, where we'll delve into discussions on long-term health sequels of #COVID_19 infections and mitigation responses in #Nordic populations!🌟

Check out the latest Omtanke2020 newsletter! Dive into a mini-interview with Mary Barker, learn about the ongoing development of the COVIDMENT Screening Tool for Long COVID and other post-viral syndromes, and explore the #Nordforsk funded CovidmentYOUNG project led by Helga Ask

Our preprint shows how the pandemic affected psychiatric healthcare use for children and adolescents with existing mental health conditions. We see a significant drop in primary and specialist healthcare, with boys experiencing greater declines🏥👱🏻‍♂️ researchsquare.com/article/rs-425…

The 2024 COVIDMENT & covidmentYOUNG meeting has concluded in Stockholm. The meeting was both productive and enjoyable. The team looks forward to continued collaboration on long-term health sequels of #COVID19 infections and mitigation responses in Nordic populations.

🚨 The economic toll of #LongCOVID in Australia is huge! In 2022 alone, 102.4 million work hours were lost, leading to a GDP hit of $9.6 billion—or 0.5% GDP. This effectively wiped out a quarter of the country’s GDP growth for the year Raina MacIntyre onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.5694/mj…

Our new multinational study in Nature Communications investigates the relationship between mental illness & COVID-19 vaccination uptake. Our analysis spans across 6 countries and includes both self-report (N > 300,000) and register data (N > 8,000,000). 🧵1/4 nature.com/articles/s4146…

New publication in Nature Communications on mental illness and COVID-19 vaccination uptake lead by Mary Barker at Karolinska Institutet using Swedish register data and surveys from COVIDMENT Read it here: nature.com/articles/s4146… #COVID #MentalHealth #researchpaper

People with unmedicated mental illness have lower rates of #Covid_19 vaccination uptake COVIDMENT #epidemiology #vaccines news.ki.se/unmedicated-me…