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From March to November 2020, we collected the data from 118 COVID-19 patients who voluntarily participated in the National Center for Disaster Trauma's online mental health assessment consisting of self-report scales like Primary Care of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder screen (PC-PTSD), Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7), Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9), Patient Health Questionnaire-15 (PHQ-15), and P4 Suicidality Screener. For control, 116 other disaster-experienced and 386 non-COVID-19-experienced participants were recruited. The COVID-19 patients showed more severe symptoms including post-traumatic symptoms, depression, anxiety, and somatic symptoms than control groups across all four screening scales (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.001). Regarding high-risk, COVID-19 patients had an increased association with high-risk compared to the comparison groups (PC-PTSD: OR = 24.16, 95% CI = 13.52\u201343.16 <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.001; PHQ-9: OR = 14.45, 95% CI = 8.29\u201325.19, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.001; GAD-7: OR=20.71, 95% CI = 10.74\u201339.96, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.001; PHQ-15: OR = 5.65, 95% CI = 3.44\u20139.25, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.001; P4: OR = 14.67, 95% CI = 8.95\u201325.07, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.001). This study's results imply that there is a high-risk of overall mental health problems, especially stronger associations of post-traumatic stress symptoms, in COVID-19 patients. 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