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Profiles of Depressive Symptoms Among Men Who Have Sex With Men and Transgender Women During the COVID-19 Outbreak in Mexico: A Latent Class Analysis

The impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on mental health among HIV high-risk populations is not known. We assess the prevalence of depressive symptoms (DS) and explore the association with characteristics related to the COVID-19 pandemic. We conducted an online survey among 881 men who have sex with men...

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Autores principales: Cerecero-Garcia, Diego, Vermandere, Heleen, Bojorquez, Ietza, Gómez-Castro, José, Arturo Sánchez-Ochoa, José, Martínez-Dávalos, Araczy, Huerta-Icelo, Ivonne, Bautista-Arredondo, Sergio
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8215204/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34164361
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.598921
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author Cerecero-Garcia, Diego
Vermandere, Heleen
Bojorquez, Ietza
Gómez-Castro, José
Arturo Sánchez-Ochoa, José
Martínez-Dávalos, Araczy
Huerta-Icelo, Ivonne
Bautista-Arredondo, Sergio
author_facet Cerecero-Garcia, Diego
Vermandere, Heleen
Bojorquez, Ietza
Gómez-Castro, José
Arturo Sánchez-Ochoa, José
Martínez-Dávalos, Araczy
Huerta-Icelo, Ivonne
Bautista-Arredondo, Sergio
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description The impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on mental health among HIV high-risk populations is not known. We assess the prevalence of depressive symptoms (DS) and explore the association with characteristics related to the COVID-19 pandemic. We conducted an online survey among 881 men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender women (TGW) assessing the presence of DS using the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CESD-10); results were compared with previously self-reported DS and national data. We applied latent class analysis (LCA) to identify classes of participants with similar COVID-19 related characteristics. The overall prevalence of significant DS was 53.3%. By LCA posterior probabilities we identified three classes: (1) minimal impact of COVID-19 (54.1%), (2) objective risk for COVID-19 (41.5%), and (3) anxiety and economic stress caused by COVID-19 (4.4%). Multivariate logistic regression showed that compared with those in class one, the odds to have significant DS were almost five times higher for those in class three. Our findings suggest high levels of depression among MSM and TGW in Mexico during the COVID-19 pandemic and highlight the need for the provision of targeted psychological interventions to minimize the impacts of COVID-19 on the mental health.
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spelling pubmed-82152042021-06-22 Profiles of Depressive Symptoms Among Men Who Have Sex With Men and Transgender Women During the COVID-19 Outbreak in Mexico: A Latent Class Analysis Cerecero-Garcia, Diego Vermandere, Heleen Bojorquez, Ietza Gómez-Castro, José Arturo Sánchez-Ochoa, José Martínez-Dávalos, Araczy Huerta-Icelo, Ivonne Bautista-Arredondo, Sergio Front Public Health Public Health The impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on mental health among HIV high-risk populations is not known. We assess the prevalence of depressive symptoms (DS) and explore the association with characteristics related to the COVID-19 pandemic. We conducted an online survey among 881 men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender women (TGW) assessing the presence of DS using the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CESD-10); results were compared with previously self-reported DS and national data. We applied latent class analysis (LCA) to identify classes of participants with similar COVID-19 related characteristics. The overall prevalence of significant DS was 53.3%. By LCA posterior probabilities we identified three classes: (1) minimal impact of COVID-19 (54.1%), (2) objective risk for COVID-19 (41.5%), and (3) anxiety and economic stress caused by COVID-19 (4.4%). Multivariate logistic regression showed that compared with those in class one, the odds to have significant DS were almost five times higher for those in class three. Our findings suggest high levels of depression among MSM and TGW in Mexico during the COVID-19 pandemic and highlight the need for the provision of targeted psychological interventions to minimize the impacts of COVID-19 on the mental health. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-06-07 /pmc/articles/PMC8215204/ /pubmed/34164361 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.598921 Text en Copyright © 2021 Cerecero-Garcia, Vermandere, Bojorquez, Gómez-Castro, Arturo Sánchez-Ochoa, Martínez-Dávalos, Huerta-Icelo and Bautista-Arredondo. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Public Health
Cerecero-Garcia, Diego
Vermandere, Heleen
Bojorquez, Ietza
Gómez-Castro, José
Arturo Sánchez-Ochoa, José
Martínez-Dávalos, Araczy
Huerta-Icelo, Ivonne
Bautista-Arredondo, Sergio
Profiles of Depressive Symptoms Among Men Who Have Sex With Men and Transgender Women During the COVID-19 Outbreak in Mexico: A Latent Class Analysis
title Profiles of Depressive Symptoms Among Men Who Have Sex With Men and Transgender Women During the COVID-19 Outbreak in Mexico: A Latent Class Analysis
title_full Profiles of Depressive Symptoms Among Men Who Have Sex With Men and Transgender Women During the COVID-19 Outbreak in Mexico: A Latent Class Analysis
title_fullStr Profiles of Depressive Symptoms Among Men Who Have Sex With Men and Transgender Women During the COVID-19 Outbreak in Mexico: A Latent Class Analysis
title_full_unstemmed Profiles of Depressive Symptoms Among Men Who Have Sex With Men and Transgender Women During the COVID-19 Outbreak in Mexico: A Latent Class Analysis
title_short Profiles of Depressive Symptoms Among Men Who Have Sex With Men and Transgender Women During the COVID-19 Outbreak in Mexico: A Latent Class Analysis
title_sort profiles of depressive symptoms among men who have sex with men and transgender women during the covid-19 outbreak in mexico: a latent class analysis
topic Public Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8215204/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34164361
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.598921
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