Impact of work arrangements during the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health in France

Irwin Hecker; Tarik El Aarbaoui; Solène Wallez; Astrid Juhl Andersen; José Luis Ayuso-Mateos; Richard Bryant; Giovanni Corrao; David McDaid; Roberto Mediavilla; Ellenor Mittendorfer-Rutz; Matteo Monzio Compagnoni; A-La Park; Antje Riepenhausen; Thomas Rigotti; Katharina Seeber; Marit Sijbrandij; Pierre Smith; Oliver Tüscher; Henrik Walter; Anke Witteveen; Murielle Mary-Krause; Maria Melchior

doi:10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.101285

Impact of work arrangements during the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health in France

SSM Popul Health. 2022 Nov 17:20:101285. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.101285. eCollection 2022 Dec.

Authors

Irwin Hecker¹, Tarik El Aarbaoui¹, Solène Wallez¹, Astrid Juhl Andersen¹, José Luis Ayuso-Mateos^{2

3

4}, Richard Bryant⁵, Giovanni Corrao^{6

7}, David McDaid⁸, Roberto Mediavilla^{2

3

9}, Ellenor Mittendorfer-Rutz¹⁰, Matteo Monzio Compagnoni^{6

7}, A-La Park⁸, Antje Riepenhausen^{11

12}, Thomas Rigotti^{13

14}, Katharina Seeber¹⁵, Marit Sijbrandij¹⁶, Pierre Smith^{15

17}, Oliver Tüscher^{14

18}, Henrik Walter^{11

12}, Anke Witteveen¹⁶, Murielle Mary-Krause¹, Maria Melchior¹

Affiliations

¹ Sorbonne Université, INSERM, Institut Pierre Louis d'Épidémiologie et de Santé Publique, IPLESP, Equipe de Recherche en Epidémiologie Sociale, ERES, F75012, Paris, France.
² Department of Psychiatry, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain.
³ Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Madrid, Spain.
⁴ Department of Psychiatry, La Princesa University Hospital, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Princesa (IIS-Princesa), Madrid, Spain.
⁵ School of Psychology, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia.
⁶ Unit of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Public Health, Department of Statistics and Quantitative Methods, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.
⁷ National Centre for Healthcare Research and Pharmacoepidemiology, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.
⁸ Care Policy and Evaluation Centre, Department of Health Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, WC2A 2AE, United Kingdom.
⁹ Instituto de Investigación del Hospital Universitario La Paz (IdiPAZ), Madrid, Spain.
¹⁰ Division of Insurance Medicine, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden.
¹¹ Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences - CCM, Research Division of Mind and Brain, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
¹² Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Faculty of Philosophy, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
¹³ Department of Work, Organizational and Business Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
¹⁴ Leibniz Institute for Resilience Research, Mainz, Germany.
¹⁵ Research Institute of Health and Society (IRSS), Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium.
¹⁶ Department of Clinical, Neuro and Developmental Psychology, WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Dissemination of Psychological Interventions, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
¹⁷ Department Epidemiology and Public Health, Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium.
¹⁸ Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Johannes Gutenberg University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany.

Abstract

•Symptoms of anxiety/depression were found in 28.8% of the participants at least once.•Unemployment and financial difficulties were associated with anxiety/depression.•Targeted mental health support could lessen mental health impact.