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. 2024 Oct 28:69:1607546.
doi: 10.3389/ijph.2024.1607546. eCollection 2024.

Mental Multimorbidity Among General-Population Adults: Sex-Specific Sociodemographic Profiles of Anxiety, Insomnia, and Eating Disorders

Valentina A Andreeva  1 , Nathalie Arnault  1 , Stéphanie Chambaron  2 , Cécilia Samieri  3 , Marie-Claude Brindisi  2 , Pauline Duquenne  1 , Serge Hercberg  1 , Pilar Galan  1 , Mathilde Touvier  1 , Leopold K Fezeu  1
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Mental Multimorbidity Among General-Population Adults: Sex-Specific Sociodemographic Profiles of Anxiety, Insomnia, and Eating Disorders

Valentina A Andreeva et al. Int J Public Health. .

Abstract

Objective: To determine the prevalence and sociodemographic profiles of mental morbidity and multimorbidity.

Methods: A descriptive analysis was performed with data from 25,269 women and 8,389 men from the French NutriNet-Santé general-population cohort. Participants were split into 8 groups: 1. No mental morbidity; 2. Pure anxiety; 3. Pure insomnia; 4. Pure eating disorders (ED); 5. Comorbid anxiety and insomnia; 6. Comorbid anxiety and ED; 7. Comorbid insomnia and ED; 8. Multimorbid anxiety, insomnia, and ED. Data were weighted using the 2016 French Census and analyzed with Chi2 tests.

Results: 40.6% of the participants had ≥1 mental disorder; 2.3% had all 3 disorders. Most pure and comorbid disorders were more common in women than in men. The multimorbidity group had the largest proportions of men who were overweight (52.1%) and current smokers (23.2%). Men with insomnia and ED were the most likely to have obesity (45.8%) and low physical activity (44.3%). Women with ≥2 disorders were the most likely to be current smokers.

Conclusion: The findings could inform research, prevention, and public health guidelines for multimorbidity.

Keywords: anxiety; eating disorders; general population; insomnia; mental multimorbidity.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they do not have any conflicts of interest.

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NutriNet-Santé participant selection flowchart (France, 2013–2017).
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