Mental health and conspirasism in health care professionals during the spring 2020 COVID-19 lockdown in Greece.
Konstantinos N FountoulakisMaria K ApostolidouMarina B AtsiovaAnna K FilippidouAngeliki K FlorouDimitra S GousiouAikaterini R KatsaraSofia N MantzariMarina Padouva-MarkoulakiEvangelia I PapatriantafyllouPanagiota I SacharidiAikaterini I ToniaEleni G TsagalidouVasiliki P ZymaraPanagiotis E PrezerakosSotirios A KoupidisNikolaos K FountoulakisAnastasia KonstaEva Maria TsapakisPavlos N TheodorakisElias MossialosPublished in: Acta neuropsychiatrica (2021)
The current paper reports high rates of depression, distress and suicidal thoughts in the HCPs during the lockdown, with a high prevalence of beliefs in conspiracy theories. Female gender and previous history of depression acted as risk factors while the belief in conspiracy theories might act as a protective factor. The results should be considered with caution due to the nature of the data (online survey on a self-selected but stratified sample).