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However, during such health disaster events, stakeholders tend to give more precedence to the socio-economic and biomedical health consequences at the expense of mental health. Meanwhile, studies show that regardless of the kind of disaster\/antecedent, all traumatic events trigger similar post-traumatic stress symptoms among survivors, families, and frontline workers. Thus, our study investigated the prevalence of anxiety, depression and insomnia symptoms among survivors of the 2014\u20132016 Ebola virus disease that plagued the West African sub-region.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"sec002\"><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>We systematically retrieved peer-reviewed articles published between 1970 and 2019 from seven electronic databases, including Google Scholar, MEDLINE, PsychInfo, PubMed, Scopus, Springer Link, Web of Science on Ebola and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms. A comprehensive hand search complemented this literature search. Of the 87 articles retrieved, only 13 met the inclusion criteria for this meta-analysis.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"sec003\"><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>After heterogeneity, influence, and publication bias analysis, our meta-analysis pooled proportion effects estimates showed a moderate to a high prevalence of anxiety (14%; 99% CI: 0.05\u20130.30), depression (15%; 99% CI: 0.11\u20130.21), and insomnia (22%; 99% CI: 0.13\u20130.36). Effect estimates ranging from (0.13; 99% CI: 0.05, 0.28) through to (0.11; 99% CI: 0.05\u20130.22), (0.15; 99% CI: 0.09\u20130.25) through to (0.13; 99% CI: 0.08\u20130.21) and (0.23; 99% CI: 0.11\u20130.41) to (0.23; 99% CI: 0.11\u20130.41) were respectively reported for anxiety, depression and insomnia symptoms. These findings suggest a significant amount of EVD survivors are struggling with anxiety, depression and insomnia symptoms.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"sec004\"><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>Our study provided the first-ever meta-analysis evidence of anxiety, depression, and insomnia symptoms among EVD survivors, and suggest that the predominant biomedical health response to regional and global health disasters should be complemented with trauma-related mental health services.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pone.0246515","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,2,7]],"date-time":"2021-02-07T17:09:05Z","timestamp":1612717745000},"page":"e0246515","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.corrections_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":26,"title":["Assessing anxiety, depression and insomnia symptoms among Ebola survivors in Africa: A meta-analysis"],"prefix":"10.1371","volume":"16","author":[{"given":"Jeremiah W.","family":"Acharibasam","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Batholomew","family":"Chireh","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8331-5830","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Hayelom G.","family":"Menegesha","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"340","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,2,5]]},"reference":[{"key":"pone.0246515.ref001","unstructured":"CDC. 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