Anxiety/Depression

Female sex was identified as a main risk factor for depressive symptoms in COPD in a study published in BMC Pulmonary Medicine.

Implementation of a digital cognitive behavioral therapy tool during the COVID-19 pandemic reduced mood symptoms among patients with functional gastrointestinal disorders who also have anxiety or depression.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, requests for smoking-cessation services were down 27%, according to new data from the North American Quitline Consortium.

Cannabis use disorder was associated with self-harm, all-cause mortality, unintentional overdose death and homicide among youth with mood disorders, according to a study published in JAMA Pediatrics.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, MSc, warned that the indirect effect the COVID-19 pandemic is having on the health of women and children may outweigh the number of deaths from the disease itself.