The Global Prevalence of Depression, Anxiety, Stress, and, Insomnia and Its Changes Among Health Professionals During Covid-19 Pandemic: A Rapid Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Background This research aims to provide an overall scenario of the prevalence of depression, anxiety, stress, as well as insomnia and to inspect the change in these prevalence between two time points by analyzing the existing evidence during this COVID-19 pandemic on these issues. Study design During the COVID-19 pandemic, the health professionals who are at the frontline of this crisis have been facing extreme psychological disorders. A systematic review has been conducted for finding the extreme psychological disorders among health professionals worldwide. Methods A systematic search was performed on October 31, 2020, in PubMed, MEDLINE, and Google Scholar databases. To assess the heterogeneity, Q-test, and I 2 statistics and to search for the publication bias, Eggers’s test and funnel plot were used. The random-effect model and subgroup analysis were performed due to the significant heterogeneity. Results Among twenty-seven eligible studies in the final synthesis, 24 studies (n=99829) assessed the depression prevalence of 39.82%, 26 studies (n=1000705) reported the anxiety prevalence of 54.33%, 10 studies (n=59221) assessed the stress prevalence of 54.33%, 11 studies (n=19285) enunciated the insomnia prevalence of 40.52%. Also, the severity of the mental health problems among health professionals increased after March 31, 2020, compared to the earlier stage of the COVID-19 pandemic. Conclusions Therefore, it is an emergency to develop psychological interventions that can protect the mental health of vulnerable groups like health professionals.