Cornelia Gottschick, Sophie Diexer, Janka Massag, Bianca Klee, Anja Broda, Oliver Purschke, Mascha Binder, Daniel Sedding, Thomas Frese, Matthias Girndt, Jessica I Hoell, Patrick Michl, Michael Gekle, Rafael Mikolajczyk
BACKGROUND: In the connected world, although societies are not directly involved in a military conflict, they are exposed to media reports of violence. AIMS: We assessed the effects of such exposures on mental health in Germany during the military conflict in Ukraine. METHOD: We used the German population-based cohort for digital health research, DigiHero, launching a survey on the eighth day of the Russo-Ukrainian war. Of the 27 509 cohort participants from the general population, 19 444 (70...
April 14, 2023: BJPsych Open