Table 1.

Items relating to current concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic ranked by frequency of endorsement for each group

Items	No mental disorder	Mood disorder	Depressive disorder	Bipolar disorder
Implications for health and wellbeing of family/loved ones	1	1	1	2
Loved one dying from COVID-19	2	2	2	3
Loved one catching COVID-19	3	3	3	4
Implications for health and wellbeing of society	4	4	4	5
Australian economy	5	10	10	13
Catching COVID-19 myself	6	8	8	11
Implications for health and wellbeing of self	7	5	5	1
Social isolation and social distancing	8	6	6	8
Availability of food and medicines	9	7	7	6
Dying of COVID-19 myself	10	12	12	12
Access to appropriate medical care	11	9	9	9
World economy	12	14	14	15
Personal finances	13	11	11	10
Risk of unemployment or reduced employment	14	13	13	7
Travel restrictions	15	17	17	16
The rapidly changing landscape	16	15	15	14
Balancing work & caring for children/dependents	17	21	21	18
Government communication of key messages	18	16	16	20
Media coverage of the pandemic	19	18	18	17
Adapting to working from home (e.g. IT/connectivity issues)	20	20	20	19
Domestic violence	21	19	19	21
Others	22	22	22	22
Not being able to attend regular place of worship	23	23	23	23

Note: Bolded values represent the top 10 most frequently endorsed items for each respective group. For the group not reporting any mental disorder, values reflect item ordering by frequency of endorsement from most (1) to least (23). In other groups, values also reflect frequency of endorsement from most (1) to least (23), but deviations from sequential ordering reflect deviations in endorsement frequencies from the group not reporting any mental disorder.