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However, referrals to mental health services dropped for several months before rising to pre-pandemic levels.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S2056472424000024_sec_a2\"><jats:title>Aims<\/jats:title><jats:p>To identify trajectories of incidence and risk factors for common mental disorders among the general population during 14 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, to inform potential mental health service needs.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S2056472424000024_sec_a3\" sec-type=\"methods\"><jats:title>Method<\/jats:title><jats:p>A cohort of 33 703 adults in England in the University College London COVID-19 Social Study provided data from March 2020 to May 2021. Growth mixture modelling was used to identify trajectories based on the probability of participants reporting symptoms of depression (Patient Health Questionnaire-9) or anxiety (Generalised Anxiety Disorder-7) in the clinical range, for each month. Sociodemographic and personality-related characteristics associated with each trajectory class were explored.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S2056472424000024_sec_a4\" sec-type=\"results\"><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Five trajectory classes were identified for depression and anxiety. Participants in the largest class (62%) were very unlikely to report clinically significant symptom levels. Other trajectories represented participants with a high likelihood of clinically significant symptoms throughout, early clinically significant symptoms that reduced over time, clinically significant symptoms that emerged as the pandemic unfolded and a moderate likelihood of clinically significant symptoms throughout. Females, younger adults, carers, those with existing mental health diagnoses, those that socialised frequently pre-pandemic and those with higher neuroticism scores were more likely to experience depression or anxiety.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S2056472424000024_sec_a5\" sec-type=\"conclusions\"><jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title><jats:p>Nearly 40% of participants followed trajectories indicating risk of clinically significant symptoms of depression or anxiety. 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