Improving the Preparedness of Health Systems to Reduce Mental Health and Psychosocial Concerns resulting from the COVID-19 Pandemic

Deliverables

An updated policy brief with guidance for health authorities and other stakeholders based on the results and findings from RESPOND will be published and disseminated These will be made available through the project website and other channels

Policy Brief 5

An updated policy brief with guidance for health authorities and other stakeholders based on the results and findings from RESPOND will be published and disseminated These will be made available through the project website and other channels

Rapid report on vulnerable groups for COVID-19 related psychological distress

Vulnerable groups for COVID-19 related psychological distress (anxiety, depression, symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder) will be identified based on cohort studies in WP2.

Report on strategies that stakeholders prioritise in reponse to the mental health challenges of the COVID-19 outbreak

This report describes the results of indepth qualitative interviews with stakeholders from health and longterm care frontline workers and organisations representing vulnerable populations on the role mental health and wellbeing issues have played in decision making A summary of strategies that stakeholders are prioritizing to mitigate and respond to the mental health challenges of the COVID19 outbreak is provided

Policy Brief 6

An updated policy brief with guidance for health authorities and other stakeholders based on the final results and findings from RESPOND will be published and disseminated. These will be made available through the project website and other channels.

Policy recommendations on short-term impact of COVID-19 pandemic

Report with policy recommendations on shortterm impact of COVID19 pandemic and the epidemiccontrol decisions on resilience mental health and wellbeing across countries This report is based on the quantitative analyses performed with longitudinal datasets as available in WP2

Rapid appraisal reports on health system responsiveness and mental health impact assessment, version 3

Third version of rapid recurring analysis of how health system responses to COVID19 across Europe and Australia have addressed resilience wellbeing and mental health in frontline workers vulnerable groups and the general population

Policy Brief 3

An updated policy brief with guidance for health authorities and other stakeholders based on the results and findings from RESPOND will be published and disseminated These will be made available through the project website and other channels

Policy Brief 1

A policy brief with guidance for health authorities and other stakeholders based on the results and findings from RESPOND will be published and disseminated. These will be made available through the project website and other channels.

Rapid appraisal reports on health system responsiveness and mental health impact assessment, version 1

First version of rapid recurring analysis of how health system responses to COVID19 across Europe and Australia have addressed resilience wellbeing and mental health in frontline workers vulnerable groups and the general population

Validated framework for assessing and improving mental health system preparedness during future pandemics

This report integrates the results of the rapid assessments, qualitative studies and discrete choice experiments and provides recommendations for assessing and improving health system preparedness for delivery of mental health and psychosocial support during future pandemics.

Policy Brief 4

An updated policy brief with guidance for health authorities and other stakeholders based on the results and findings from RESPOND will be published and disseminated These will be made available through the project website and other channels

Rapid appraisal reports on health system responsiveness, version 2

Second version of rapid recurring analysis of how health system responses to COVID19 across Europe and Australia have addressed resilience wellbeing and mental health in frontline workers vulnerable groups and the general population

Launch of a RESPOND website

The RESPOND website will describe the vision of the project, present the RESPOND Consortium, as well as the structure and the roles of the partners. during the course of RESPOND, aspecific section targeted to end-users (frontline workers and vulnerable groups) will be added.

Final dissemination event for stakeholders and end-users

A high-level dissemination event will be conducted to disseminate the results of RESPOND. These will involve RESPOND contributors, invited senior officials from the EC, WHO, and governments, and wider stakeholder groups, such as health worker professional associations, people with lived experience, academics and public health emergency leaders/experts.

Publications

Views and experiences of migrants and stakeholders involved in social and health care for migrants in Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study

Author(s): Lotito, Claudia; Turrini, Giulia; Purgato, Marianna; Bryant, Richard A.; Felez-Nobrega, Mireia; Haro, Josep Maria; Lorant, Vincent; McDaid, David; Mediavilla, Roberto; Melchior, Maria; Nicaise, Pablo; Nosè, Michela; Park, A-La; McGreevy, Kerry R.; Roos, Rinske; Tortelli, Andrea; Underhill, James; Martinez, Julian Vadell; Witteveen, Anke; Sijbrandij, Marit; Barbui, Corrado
Published in: BMC Psychology, Issue 11, 164, 2023, ISSN 2050-7283
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s40359-023-01208-0

Addressing mental health problems among persons without stable housing in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: study protocol for a randomised trial. RESPOND – France

Author(s): Melchior, Maria; Figueiredo, Natasha; Roversi, Aurélia; Dubanchet, Alexandre; Bui, Eric; Vadell-Martínez, Julian; Barbui, Corrado; Purgato, Marianna; Ayuso-Mateos, José Luis; Mediavilla, Roberto; McDaid, David; Park, A-La; Petri-Romão, Papoula; Kalisch, Raffael; Nicaise, Pablo; Lorant, Vincent; Sijbrandij, Marit; Witteveen, Anke B; Bryant, Richard; Felez, Mireia; Underhill, James; Pollice, Giu
Published in: BMC Public Health, Issue 23, 2275, 2023, ISSN 1471-2458
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-023-17238-7

Self-report assessment of Positive Appraisal Style (PAS): Development of a process-focused and a content-focused questionnaire for use in mental health and resilience research

Author(s): Papoula Petri-Romão, Haakon Engen, Anna Rupanova, Lara Puhlmann, Matthias Zerban, Rebecca J. Neumann, Aliaksandr Malyshau, Kira F. Ahrens, Anita Schick, Bianca Kollmann, Michèle Wessa, Henrik Walker, Michael M. Plichta, Andreas Reif, Andrea Chmitorz, Oliver Tuescher, Ulrike Basten, Raffael Kalisch
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 19, 2024, Page(s) e0295562, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0295562

Trajectories of resilience and mental distress to global major disruptions

Author(s): Sarah K. Schäfer, Angela M. Kunzler, Raffael Kalisch, Oliver Tüscher, Klaus Lieb
Published in: Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Issue Volume 26, Issue 12, 2022, Page(s) 1171-1189, ISSN 1364-6613
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2022.09.017

Impact of work arrangements during the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health in France

Author(s): Irwin Hecker, Tarik El Aarbaoui, Solène Wallez, Astrid Juhl Andersen, José Luis Ayuso-Mateos, Richard Bryant, Giovanni Corrao, David McDaid, Roberto Mediavilla, Ellenor Mittendorfer-Rutz, Matteo Monzio Compagnoni, A-La Park, Antje Riepenhausen, Thomas Rigotti, Katharina Seeber, Marit Sijbrandij, Pierre Smith, Oliver Tüscher, Henrik Walter, Anke Witteveen, Murielle Mary-Krause, Maria Melchior
Published in: SSM - Population Health, Issue Volume 20, 2022, 101285, 2022, ISSN 2352-8273
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.101285

Changes in depression and suicidal ideation under severe lockdown restrictions during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain: a longitudinal study in the general population

Author(s): J. L. Ayuso-Mateos, D. Morillo, J. M. Haro, B. Olaya, E. Lara, M. Miret
Published in: Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, Issue 20457979, 2021, ISSN 2045-7979
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s2045796021000408

Are we equally at risk of changing smoking behavior during a public health crisis? Impact of educational level on smoking from the TEMPO cohort

Author(s): Astrid Juhl Andersen, Irwin Hecker, Solène Wallez, Anke Witteveen, Antonio Lora, Ellenor Mittendorfer-Rutz, Giovanni Corrao, Henrik Walter, Josep Maria Haro, Marit Sijbrandij, Matteo Monzio Compagnoni, Mireia Felez-Nobrega, Raffael Kalisch, Richard Bryant, Maria Melchior, Murielle Mary-Krause
Published in: BMC Public Health, Issue 23, 2023, ISSN 1471-2458
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-023-15799-1

Remote mental health care interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic: An umbrella review

Author(s): A.B. Witteveen, S. Young, P. Cuijpers, J.L. Ayuso-Mateos, C. Barbui, F. Bertolini, M. Cabello, C. Cadorin, N. Downes, D. Franzoi, M. Gasior, A. John, M. Melchior, D. McDaid, C. Palantza, M. Purgato, J. Van der Waerden, S. Wang, M. Sijbrandij
Published in: Behaviour Research and Therapy, Issue Volume 159, 104226, 2022, ISSN 0005-7967
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2022.104226

Inequality on the frontline: A multi-country study on gender differences in mental health among healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic

Author(s): Diana Czepiel, Clare McCormack, Andréa T.C. da Silva, Dominika Seblova, Maria F. Moro, Alexandra Restrepo-Henao, Adriana M. Martínez, Oyeyemi Afolabi, Lubna Alnasser, Rubén Alvarado, Hiroki Asaoka, Olatunde Ayinde, Arin Balalian, Dinarte Ballester, Josleen A.l. Barathie, Armando Basagoitia, Djordje Basic, María S. Burrone, Mauro G. Carta, Sol Durand-Arias, Mehmet Eskin, Eduardo Fernández-Jim
Published in: Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health, Issue 11, 2024, ISSN 2054-4251
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/gmh.2024.18

How COVID-19 shaped mental health: from infection to pandemic effects

Author(s): Brenda W. J. H. Penninx, Michael E. Benros, Robyn S. Klein, Christiaan H. Vinkers
Published in: Nature Medicine, Issue 28, 2022, Page(s) 2027–2037, ISSN 1078-8956
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41591-022-02028-2

Effectiveness of a mental health stepped-care programme for healthcare workers with psychological distress in crisis settings: a multicentre randomised controlled trial

Author(s): Roberto Mediavilla, Mireia Felez-Nobrega, Kerry R. McGreevy, Anna Monistrol-Mula, María-Fe Bravo-Ortiz, Carmen Bayón, Iago Giné-Vázquez, Rut Villaescusa, Ainoa Muñoz-Sanjosé, Salvatore Aguilar-Ortiz, Natasha Figueiredo, Pablo Nicaise, A-La Park, Papoula Petri-Romão, Marianna Purgato, Anke B. Witteveen, James Underhill, Corrado Barbui, Richard Bryant, Raffael Kalisch, Vincent Lorant, David M
Published in: BMJ Mental Health, Issue 26, 2023, ISSN 2755-9734
Publisher: BMJ
DOI: 10.1136/bmjment-2023-300697

Treatment coverage for depression in the general Spanish population and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic

Author(s): Lea Francia, Riccardo De Giorgi, Elvira Lara, Blanca Dolz del Castellar, Chiara Castelletti, Cristina Rodríguez-Prada, Joan Domènech-Abella, Beatriz Olaya, Josep Maria Haro, José Luis Ayuso Mateos
Published in: Heliyon, Issue 10, 2024, Page(s) e32594, ISSN 2405-8440
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e32594

Psychological distress and online advice-seeking in times of COVID-19: vertical and horizontal equity of an e-mental health strategy

Author(s): V. Lorant; P. Smith; C. Duveau; K. Seeber; R. A. Bryant; E. Mittendorfer-Rutz; M. Melchior; J. M. Haró; M. Monzio Compagnoni; G. Corrao; J. L. Ayuso-Mateos; M. Sijbrandij; P. Nicaise
Published in: Current Psychology, Issue 43, 2024, Page(s) 18736–18747, ISSN 1046-1310
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s12144-023-04907-4

Effectiveness of a stepped-care programme of WHO psychological interventions in migrant populations resettled in Italy: Study protocol for the RESPOND randomized controlled trial

Author(s): Marianna Purgato, Giulia Turrini, Federico Tedeschi, Riccardo Serra, Lorenzo Tarsitani, Beatrice Compri, Giulia Muriago, Camilla Cadorin, Giovanni Ostuzzi, Pablo Nicaise, Vincent Lorant, Marit Sijbrandij, Anke B. Witteveen, José Luis Ayuso-Mateos, Roberto Mediavilla, Josep Maria Haro, Mireia Felez-Nobrega, Natasha Figueiredo, Giulia Pollice, David McDaid, A-La Park, Raffael Kalisch, Papoula Petri
Published in: Frontiers in Public Health, Issue 11, 2023, ISSN 2296-2565
Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1100546

How sustainable is resilience? A mixed-methods study on the COVID-19-pandemic as a challenge to resilience resources of older adults who previously recovered from depression

Author(s): Silvia S. Klokgieters, Michael Ungar, Brenda W. J. H. Penninx, Lieneke Glas, Didi Rhebergen, Almar A. L. Kok
Published in: Aging & Mental Health, Issue 28, 2024, Page(s) 1242-1251, ISSN 1360-7863
Publisher: Carfax Publishers
DOI: 10.1080/13607863.2024.2326890

Author(s): Chaka Camara, Pamela J. Surkan, Judith Van Der Waerden, Andrea Tortelli, Naomi Downes, Cécile Vuillermoz, Maria Melchior
Published in: Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health, Issue 10, 2022, ISSN 2054-4251
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/gmh.2022.56

Psychological resilience factors and their association with weekly stressor reactivity during the COVID-19 outbreak in Europe

Author(s): Sophie Bögemann; Lara Puhlmann; Carolin Wackerhagen; Matthias Zerban; Antje Riepenhausen; Göran Köber; Kenneth S.L. Yuen; Shakoor Pooseh; Marta Anna Marciniak; Zala Reppmann; Aleksandra Uściƚko; Jeroen Dennis, Merlijn Weermeijer; Dionne B. Lenferink; Julian Mituniewicz; Natalia Robak; Nina Donner; Merijn Mestdagh; Stijn Verdonck; Rolf van Dick; Birgit Kleim; Klaus Lieb; Judith van Leeuwen; Do
Published in: JMIR Mental Health, Issue 10, e46518, 2023, ISSN 2368-7959
Publisher: JMIR Publications
DOI: 10.2196/46518

Genetic analyses point to alterations in immune-related pathways underpinning the association between psychiatric disorders and COVID-19

Author(s): Anna Monistrol-Mula, Santiago Diaz-Torres, Mireia Felez-Nobrega, Josep Maria Haro, Sarah E. Medland, Brittany L. Mitchell
Published in: Molecular Psychiatry, 2024, ISSN 1359-4184
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41380-024-02643-0

Effectiveness of a scalable, remotely delivered stepped-care intervention to reduce symptoms of psychological distress among Polish migrant workers in the Netherlands: study protocol for the RESPOND randomised controlled trial

Author(s): Rinske Roos; Anke B. Witteveen; José Luis Ayuso-Mateos; Corrado Barbui; Richard A. Bryant; Mireia Felez-Nobrega; Natasha Figueiredo; Raffael Kalisch; Josep Maria Haro; David McDaid; Roberto Mediavilla; Maria Melchior; Pablo Nicaise; A-La Park; Papoula Petri-Romão; Marianna Purgato; Annemieke van Straten; Federico Tedeschi; James Underhill; Marit Sijbrandij; the RESPOND Consortium
Published in: BMC Psychiatry, Issue 23, 801, 2023, ISSN 1471-244X
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s12888-023-05288-5

COVID-19 and common mental health symptoms in the early phase of the pandemic: An umbrella review of the evidence

Author(s): Anke B. Witteveen, Susanne Y. Young, Pim Cuijpers, José Luis Ayuso-Mateos, Corrado Barbui, Federico Bertolini, Maria Cabello, Camilla Cadorin, Naomi Downes, Daniele Franzoi, Michael Gasior, Brandon Gray, Maria Melchior, Mark van Ommeren, Christina Palantza, Marianna Purgato, Judith van der Waerden, Siyuan Wang, Marit Sijbrandij
Published in: PLoS Medicine, Issue 20(4), 2023, ISSN 1549-1676
Publisher: San Francisco CA: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1004206

Mental burden and its risk and protective factors during the early phase of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: systematic review and meta-analyses

Author(s): Angela M. Kunzler, Nikolaus Röthke, Lukas Günthner, Jutta Stoffers-Winterling, Oliver Tüscher, Michaela Coenen, Eva Rehfuess, Guido Schwarzer, Harald Binder, Christine Schmucker, Joerg J. Meerpohl & Klaus Lieb
Published in: Globalization and Health, Issue 17, 34, 2021, ISSN 1744-8603
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s12992-021-00670-y

Effectiveness of a stepped-care programme of internet-based psychological interventions for healthcare workers with psychological distress: Study protocol for the RESPOND healthcare workers randomised controlled trial

Author(s): Roberto Mediavilla, Kerry R. McGreevy, Mireia Felez-Nobrega, Anna Monistrol-Mula, María-Fe Bravo-Ortiz, Carmen Bayón, Beatriz Rodríguez-Vega, Pablo Nicaise, Audrey Delaire, Marit Sijbrandij, Anke B. Witteveen, Marianna Purgato, Corrado Barbui, Federico Tedeschi, Maria Melchior, Judith van der Waerden, David McDaid, A-La Park, Raffael Kalisch, Papoula Petri-Romão, James Underhill, Richard A. Br
Published in: Digital Health, Issue 20552076, 2022, ISSN 2055-2076
Publisher: SAGE Publishing
DOI: 10.1177/20552076221129084

Use of psychological interventions among healthcare workers over the 2-year period following the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal study

Author(s): Blanca García-Vázquez, Gonzalo Martínez-Alés, Eduardo Fernández-Jiménez, Jorge Andreo-Jover, Berta Moreno-Küstner, Sergio Minué, Fabiola Jaramillo, Inés Morán-Sánchez, Irene Martínez-Morata, José Luis Ayuso-Mateos, Carmen Bayón, María-Fe Bravo-Ortiz, Roberto Mediavilla
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 18(10), 2023, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0292932

Risk and Resilience Factors for Mental Health in a German Representative Panel Study

Author(s): Antje Riepenhausen; Ilya Veer; Carolin Wackerhagen; Zala C. Reppmann; Göran Köber; Jose Luis Ayuso Mateos; Sophie Bögemann; Giovanni Corrao; Mireia Felez-Nobrega; Josep Maria Haro; Erno Hermans; Judith van Leeuwen; Klaus Lieb; Vincent Lorant; Murielle Mary-Krause; Roberto Mediavilla; Maria Melchior; Ellenor Mittendorfer-Rutz; Matteo Monzio Compagnoni; Kuan-Yu Pan; Lara Puhlmann; Karin Roelofs;
Published in: Psychological Medicine, Issue 4, 2022, Page(s) 1-47, ISSN 0033-2917
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0033291722000563

Contamination fear during the COVID-19 pandemic in patients with lifetime obsessive compulsive disorder and healthy controls: A longitudinal cohort study

Author(s): Johanna A.M. du Mortier, Erik J. Giltay, Almar A.L. Kok, Patricia van Oppen, Merijn Eikelenboom, Didi Rhebergen, Richard C. Oude Voshaar, Anton J.L.M. van Balkom, Henny A.D. Visser
Published in: Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, Issue 42, 2024, Page(s) 100889, ISSN 2211-3649
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocrd.2024.100889

Mental health problems and needs of frontline healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain: A qualitative analysis

Author(s): Roberto Mediavilla, Anna Monistrol-Mula, Kerry R. McGreevy, Mireia Felez-Nobrega, Audrey Delaire, Pablo Nicaise, Santiago Palomo-Conti, Carmen Bayón, María-Fe Bravo-Ortiz, Beatriz Rodríguez-Vega1, Anke Witteveen, Marit Sijbrandij, Giulia Turrini, Marianna Purgato, Cécile Vuillermoz, Maria Melchior, Papoula Petri-Romão, Jutta Stoffers-Winterling, Richard A. Bryant, David McDaid, A-La Park, Jos
Published in: Front. Public Health, Issue 10:956403, 2022, ISSN 2296-2565
Publisher: Frontiers
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.956403

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