A study conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain found that anxiety and depressive disorders were the most common reasons for consulting mental health professionals in the European country as of February 2021. That year, nearly eight out of ten mental health consultations were related to these two conditions. Anxiety disorders alone accounted for 43.7 percent of consultations. Meanwhile, over three in every ten interviewees seeking mental health care in Spain suffered from depressive disorders.
Distribution of individuals that consulted a mental health professional during the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain as of February 2021, by mental health condition
among people treated by a mental health professional during the COVID-19 pandemic
Method of interview
Telephone interview
Supplementary notes
* The question was posed to 197 people that had consulted a mental health professional during the COVID-19 pandemic, from a total sample of 3,083 people.
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Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas, & Various sources (Confederación Salud Mental España). (February 1, 2021). Distribution of individuals that consulted a mental health professional during the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain as of February 2021, by mental health condition [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 03, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1369524/distribution-people-consulted-mental-health-professional-during-covid-pandemic-by-condition-spain/
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Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas, and Various sources (Confederación Salud Mental España). "Distribution of Individuals That Consulted a Mental Health Professional during The Covid-19 Pandemic in Spain as of February 2021, by Mental Health Condition." Statista, Statista Inc., 1 Feb 2021, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1369524/distribution-people-consulted-mental-health-professional-during-covid-pandemic-by-condition-spain/
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