id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-286168-019rcbpg Vindegaard, Nina COVID-19 pandemic and mental health consequences: systematic review of the current evidence 2020-05-30 .txt text/plain 4106 217 45 Out of these, only two studies evaluated patients with confirmed COVID-19 infection, whereas 41 evaluated the indirect effect of the pandemic (2 on patients with preexisting psychiatric disorders, 20 on medical health care workers, and 19 on the general public). 23, 24 We aimed to systematically review the literature in order to provide an overview of the psychiatric complications to COVID-19 infection (direct effect) and how COVID-19 are currently affecting mental health among psychiatric patients and general public (indirect effect) alongside with factors altering the risk of psychiatric symptoms in both groups. A variety of factors were associated with higher risk of psychiatric symptoms and/or low psychological well-being of the general public including female gender, front-line health care workers, and poor self-rated health. From previous studies of the SARS CoV-1 epidemic it is known that health care workers are at risk of anxiety and depressive symptoms, which the current studies indicate also is the case of COVID19 . ./cache/cord-286168-019rcbpg.txt ./txt/cord-286168-019rcbpg.txt