Assessing anxiety, depression and insomnia symptoms among Ebola survivors in Africa: A meta-analysis.
Assessing anxiety, depression and insomnia symptoms among Ebola survivors in Africa: A meta-analysis.
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BackgroundDuring health disaster events such as the current devastating havoc being inflicted on countries globally by the SARS-CoV-19 pandemic, mental health problems among survivors and frontline workers are likely concerns.However, during such health disaster events, stakeholders tend to give more precedence to coq-clear 100 ubiquinol the socio-economic and biomedical health consequences at the expense of mental health.Meanwhile, studies show that regardless of the kind of disaster/antecedent, all traumatic events trigger similar post-traumatic stress symptoms among survivors, families, and frontline workers.Thus, our study investigated the prevalence of anxiety, depression and insomnia symptoms among survivors of the 2014-2016 Ebola virus disease that plagued the West African sub-region.
MethodsWe systematically retrieved peer-reviewed articles published between 1970 and 2019 from seven electronic databases, including Google Scholar, MEDLINE, PsychInfo, PubMed, Scopus, Springer Link, Web of Science on Ebola and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms.A comprehensive hand search complemented this literature search.Of the 87 articles retrieved, only 13 met the inclusion criteria for this meta-analysis.ResultsAfter heterogeneity, influence, and publication bias analysis, our meta-analysis pooled proportion effects estimates showed a moderate to a opheliasmuse.com high prevalence of anxiety (14%; 99% CI: 0.
05-0.30), depression (15%; 99% CI: 0.11-0.21), and insomnia (22%; 99% CI: 0.
13-0.36).Effect estimates ranging from (0.13; 99% CI: 0.
05, 0.28) through to (0.11; 99% CI: 0.05-0.
22), (0.15; 99% CI: 0.09-0.25) through to (0.
13; 99% CI: 0.08-0.21) and (0.23; 99% CI: 0.
11-0.41) to (0.23; 99% CI: 0.11-0.
41) were respectively reported for anxiety, depression and insomnia symptoms.These findings suggest a significant amount of EVD survivors are struggling with anxiety, depression and insomnia symptoms.ConclusionOur study provided the first-ever meta-analysis evidence of anxiety, depression, and insomnia symptoms among EVD survivors, and suggest that the predominant biomedical health response to regional and global health disasters should be complemented with trauma-related mental health services.