Lechien, Jerome RChebib, EmilienZelenik, KarolManiaci, AntoninoMolteni, GabrieleMaza-Solano, Juan MHans, Stéphane2023-05-032023-05-032022-08-25http://hdl.handle.net/10668/19986To investigate mental health, sleep, and addiction features of young otolaryngologists (YO) according to the mobilization in COVID-19 units at the end of the third European wave of infections. A cross-sectional survey was sent to 220 YO of 6 European University hospitals. The following outcomes were evaluated: postgraduate year; age; management of COVID-19 patients; workload; nights on call; stress; Beck depression inventory; Insomnia severity index; sleep and mental health status evolutions throughout pandemic; consumption of alcohol, tobacco, and drugs before and during pandemic. A total of 128 YO completed the evaluations (58.2%). Twenty responders (15.6%) did not manage COVID-19 patients, while 65 (50.8%), 20 (15.6%), and 23 (18%) managed rarely, frequently or daily COVID-19 patients during the pandemic, respectively. The management of COVID-19 patients was associated with increases of workload (p = 0.023) and number of nights on-call (p  Young otolaryngologists (YO) mobilized in COVID-19 units reported higher hours worked, nights on call, and alcohol consumption compared with others. Future large cohort-studies are needed to confirm our observations.enAddictionAlcoholCOVID-19DepressionFellowOtolaryngologyRecruitmentResidentsSARS-CoV-2SleepHumansCOVID-19SARS-CoV-2Cross-Sectional StudiesOtolaryngologyHealth StatusDepressionAnxietyresearch article36006516open access10.1007/s00405-022-07617-y1434-4726PMC9406264https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00405-022-07617-y.pdfhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9406264/pdf