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Chanyoung Cheong 1,†, Jaeyu Park 2,3,†, Kyeonghee Shim 4, Sunyoung Kim 5, Min Seo Kim 6, Guillaume Fond 7, Laurent Boyer 7, Jiseung Kang 8,9,$, Tae Kim 1,#, Dong Keon Yon 2,3,10
1Department of Biomedical Science and Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, South Korea
2Center for Digital Health, Medical Science Research Institute, Kyung Hee University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
3Department of Regulatory Science, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea
4Department of Biochemistry, College of Natural Sciences, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, South Korea
5Department of Family Medicine, Kyung Hee University Medical Center, Kyung Hee University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
6Cardiovascular Disease Initiative, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
7Research Centre on Health Services and Quality of Life, Aix Marseille University, Marseille, France
8Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
9Division of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
10Department of Pediatrics, Kyung Hee University Medical Center, Kyung Hee University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
†These authors contributed equally to this work.
$Jiseung Kang, Department of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA, Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, 149 13th Street, Room 4140, Charlestown, Boston, MA, USA,
#Tae Kim, Department of Biomedical Science and Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, 123, Cheomdangwagi-ro, Buk-gu, Gwangju, Republic of Korea, Gwangju 61005, South Korea
Corresponding authors: Dong Keon Yon, Jiseung Kang, Tae Kim
Abstract
To investigate the long-term trends in counseling for stress and depression using data from a nationwide survey in South Korea. We conducted a nationwide serial, large-scale, cross-sectional, survey-based study using data from 2,903,887 Korean adults from the Korea Community Health Survey, 2009-2022. Our study investigated the trends and risk factors for counseling for stress and depression during the pre-pandemic (2009-2019) and pandemic era (2020-2022). The prevalence of counseling for stress and depression increased across pre-pandemic (counseling for stress: β, 0.217 [95% CI, 0.194-0.241]; counseling for depression: β, 0.136 [0.118-0.154]) and pandemic periods (β, 0.324 [0.287-0.360]; β, 0.210 [0.182-0.239], respectively). The prevalence of counseling for stress and depression showed steeper slopes for increasing trends after the outbreak. In addition, subgroups with female sex, urban residence, lower household income, lower self-rated health, lower sleep time, and higher worries about contracting COVID-19 were the risk factors associated with the increased prevalence of counseling for stress and depression. Our study analyzed the trends in counseling for stress and depression among over two million South Korean adults in 2009-2022, revealing a significant escalation during the pandemic. These findings emphasize the need for mental health policies to support vulnerable groups during the pandemic.
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