标题：Exploring the mental health impact of the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of current stressors, double exposure and previous traumatic experiences. ESTSS Pan-European COVID-19 study findings
摘要：The COVID-19 pandemic imposed a complicated system of strains on public mental health across Europe and around the world. From the beginning of the crisis, ESTSS initiated a large-scale pan-European study with participation of 11 European countries to explore mental health sequelae of the pandemic (Lotzin et al, 2020). The aim of the symposium is to shed light on the role of pandemic-related stressors, in the case of one country - an additional large-scale disaster, and pre-pandemic traumatic experiences on the mental health wellbeing of affected populations. The three studies to be presented at the symposium are part of an ongoing online ESTSS panEuropean prospective cohort study, started in May 2020. These studies focus on: 1) The association between pandemic-related stressors and suicidal ideation, based on a multinomial binary logistic regression analysis of data from Lithuania and Poland; 2) A comparison of the mental health status of people who have lived through double adversity (the COVID-19 pandemic and the earthquake in Croatia); 3) The association between adverse childhood experiences and COVID-19-related stressors, resilience and coping strategies in 10 countries. Based on the findings, we will discuss to what extent pandemic-related stressors facilitate suicidal ideation, interact with the effect of exposure to additional traumatic stressor amid the pandemic and amplify pre-pandemic traumatic experiences. Corresponding preventive strategies will be reflected on.
