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Correction and Republication: Symptoms of Depression, Anxiety, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and Suicidal Ideation Among State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Public Health Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic - United States, March-April 2021
Bryant-Genevier J , Rao CY , Lopes-Cardozo B , Kone A , Rose C , Thomas I , Orquiola D , Lynfield R , Shah D , Freeman L , Becker S , Williams A , Gould DW , Tiesman H , Lloyd G , Hill L , Byrkit R . MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 12/28/2021 70 (48) 1679 On July 2, 2021, MMWR published “Symptoms of Depression, Anxiety, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and Suicidal Ideation Among State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Public Health Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic — United States, March–April 2021” (1). On October 12, 2021, the authors informed MMWR that some data were inaccurate because 420 incomplete participant responses were incorrectly assigned scores for depression. This error resulted in a change in overall depression prevalence from 32.0% to 30.8%, and other similar changes in stratified prevalences of depression, prevalence ratios of depression, and the overall proportion of respondents who reported at least one mental health condition. The authors have corrected the MMWR report by excluding the 420 records from the depression analysis and confirmed that the interpretation and the conclusions of the original report were not affected by these corrections. MMWR has republished the report (2), which includes the original report with clearly marked corrections in supplementary materials. |
Symptoms of Depression, Anxiety, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and Suicidal Ideation Among State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Public Health Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic - United States, March-April 2021.
Bryant-Genevier J , Rao CY , Lopes-Cardozo B , Kone A , Rose C , Thomas I , Orquiola D , Lynfield R , Shah D , Freeman L , Becker S , Williams A , Gould DW , Tiesman H , Lloyd G , Hill L , Byrkit R . MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2021 70 (48) 1680-1685 Increases in mental health conditions have been documented among the general population and health care workers since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic (1-3). Public health workers might be at similar risk for negative mental health consequences because of the prolonged demand for responding to the pandemic and for implementing an unprecedented vaccination campaign. The extent of mental health conditions among public health workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, however, is uncertain. A 2014 survey estimated that there were nearly 250,000 state and local public health workers in the United States (4). To evaluate mental health conditions among these workers, a nonprobability-based online survey was conducted during March 29-April 16, 2021, to assess symptoms of depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and suicidal ideation among public health workers in state, tribal, local, and territorial public health departments. Among 26,174 respondents, 52.8% reported symptoms of at least one mental health condition in the preceding 2 weeks, including depression (30.8%), anxiety (30.3%), PTSD (36.8%), or suicidal ideation (8.4%). The highest prevalence of symptoms of a mental health condition was among respondents aged ≤29 years (range = 13.6%-47.4%) and transgender or nonbinary persons (i.e., those who identified as neither male nor female) of all ages (range = 30.4%-65.5%). Public health workers who reported being unable to take time off from work were more likely to report adverse mental health symptoms. Severity of symptoms increased with increasing weekly work hours and percentage of work time dedicated to COVID-19 response activities. Implementing prevention and control practices that eliminate, reduce, and manage factors that cause or contribute to public health workers' poor mental health might improve mental health outcomes during emergencies. |
Symptoms of Depression, Anxiety, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and Suicidal Ideation Among State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Public Health Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic - United States, March-April 2021.
Bryant-Genevier J , Rao CY , Lopes-Cardozo B , Kone A , Rose C , Thomas I , Orquiola D , Lynfield R , Shah D , Freeman L , Becker S , Williams A , Gould DW , Tiesman H , Lloyd G , Hill L , Byrkit R . MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2021 70 (26) 947-952 Increases in mental health conditions have been documented among the general population and health care workers since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic (1-3). Public health workers might be at similar risk for negative mental health consequences because of the prolonged demand for responding to the pandemic and for implementing an unprecedented vaccination campaign. The extent of mental health conditions among public health workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, however, is uncertain. A 2014 survey estimated that there were nearly 250,000 state and local public health workers in the United States (4). To evaluate mental health conditions among these workers, a nonprobability-based online survey was conducted during March 29-April 16, 2021, to assess symptoms of depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and suicidal ideation among public health workers in state, tribal, local, and territorial public health departments. Among 26,174 respondents, 53.0% reported symptoms of at least one mental health condition in the preceding 2 weeks, including depression (32.0%), anxiety (30.3%), PTSD (36.8%), or suicidal ideation (8.4%). The highest prevalence of symptoms of a mental health condition was among respondents aged ≤29 years (range = 13.6%-47.4%) and transgender or nonbinary persons (i.e., those who identified as neither male nor female) of all ages (range = 30.4%-65.5%). Public health workers who reported being unable to take time off from work were more likely to report adverse mental health symptoms. Severity of symptoms increased with increasing weekly work hours and percentage of work time dedicated to COVID-19 response activities. Implementing prevention and control practices that eliminate, reduce, and manage factors that cause or contribute to public health workers' poor mental health might improve mental health outcomes during emergencies. |
Building state and local public health capacity in syndromic surveillance through an online community of practice
Gould DW , Lamb E , Dearth S , Collier K . Public Health Rep 2019 134 (3) 33354919828713 A community of practice is a group of persons who share a concern, a set of problems, or a passion about a topic, and who deepen their knowledge and expertise by interacting regularly, either in person or virtually.1,2 Communities of practice have been used for many years in the private sector1-5 and to a lesser degree in public health.6-11 To our knowledge, however, a community of practice has never been used to build public health capacity for a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) public health surveillance program. In this Executive Perspective, we discuss how CDC’s National Syndromic Surveillance Program Community of Practice (NSSP CoP)12 is proving to be a promising approach for building state and local public health capacity in syndromic surveillance. | | Syndromic surveillance is public health surveillance that emphasizes the use of near–real-time prediagnostic data, primarily from emergency departments and urgent care centers, and statistical tools to detect and characterize unusual activity for public health investigation or response.13 The capacity to conduct syndromic surveillance is key to public health officials’ ability to detect, monitor, and characterize unusual illnesses in the general population or to identify and respond to potential events of public health concern.14 CDC’s NSSP provides funds and support to local and state public health authorities to implement syndromic surveillance in their jurisdictions. NSSP operates and maintains the BioSense Platform,15,16 a cloud-based platform that provides participating public health jurisdictions with tools and resources for data collection, storage, analysis, and exchange of syndromic surveillance data. These tools enable users to rapidly collect, evaluate, share, and store syndromic surveillance data. Health officials can use the BioSense Platform to analyze and exchange syndromic surveillance data across city, county, or state jurisdictions—improving their common awareness of health threats over time and across regional boundaries. |
The evolution of Biosense: Lessons learned and future directions
Gould DW , Walker D , Yoon PW . Public Health Rep 2017 132 7s-11s The BioSense program was launched in 2003 with the aim of establishing a nationwide integrated public health surveillance system for early detection and assessment of potential bioterrorism-related illness. The program has matured over the years from an initial Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-centric program to one focused on building syndromic surveillance capacity at the state and local level. The uses of syndromic surveillance have also evolved from an early focus on alerts for bioterrorism-related illness to situational awareness and response, to various hazardous events and disease outbreaks. Future development of BioSense (now the National Syndromic Surveillance Program) includes, in the short term, a focus on data quality with an emphasis on stability, consistency, and reliability and, in the long term, increased capacity and innovation, new data sources and system functionality, and exploration of emerging technologies and analytics. |
Introduction to special section: behavioral health and disasters--planning for the next time
Larson S , Gould DW . J Behav Health Serv Res 2015 42 (1) 3-5 Following the April 20, 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, an ongoing public health concern was the behavioral health (e.g., alcohol and drug abuse and mental disorders) of those living along the Gulf Coast who were affected by the spill. Hundreds of square miles of coastline in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida were adversely affected by the spill. Petroleum, fishing, and tourism industries in stricken areas along the Gulf Coast suffered financial losses, and many residents lost work or feared the loss of their culture and way of life. There were further concerns about the potential health effects of the spill and the safety of chemical dispersants used to clean the shoreline in oil-exposed regions and communities. | | Following a disaster, behavioral health problems are often shadows unseen by residents and officials busy addressing the problems of providing people with shelter, food, clean drinking water, and other physical needs. However, once these basic needs are “shored up,” the behavioral health concerns of emotional distress, mental illness, or substance abuse can emerge in some individuals affected by the disaster. In the Gulf Coast region struck by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, incidences of these behavioral health problems were expected to be compounded by a long history of disasters in the region, including the still burgeoning effects of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and other major storms. |
Behavioral health in the Gulf Coast region following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill: findings from two federal surveys
Gould DW , Teich JL , Pemberton MR , Pierannunzi C , Larson S . J Behav Health Serv Res 2014 42 (1) 6-22 This article summarizes findings from two large-scale, population-based surveys conducted by Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the Gulf Coast region following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, to measure the prevalence of mental and substance use disorders, chronic health conditions, and utilization of behavioral health services. Although many area residents undoubtedly experienced increased levels of anxiety and stress following the spill, findings suggest only modest or minimal changes in behavioral health at the aggregate level before and after the spill. The studies do not address potential long-term effects of the spill on physical and behavioral health nor did they target subpopulations that might have been most affected by the spill. Resources mobilized to reduce the economic and behavioral health impacts of the spill on coastal residents-including compensation for lost income from BP and increases in available mental health services-may have resulted in a reduction in potential mental health problems. |
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