ArticleThe lancet. Psychiatry2020
Says who? The significance of sampling in mental health surveys during COVID-19.
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223 citing papers in PubMed, 15 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder in healthcare workers before and during COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2026Pooled it
- COVID-19 and common mental health symptoms in the early phase of the pandemic: An umbrella review of the evidence.PLoS medicine · 2023Pooled it
- Annual Research Review: The impact of Covid-19 on psychopathology in children and young people worldwide: systematic review of studies with pre- and within-pandemic data.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2023Pooled it
- Comparison of mental health symptoms before and during the covid-19 pandemic: evidence from a systematic review and meta-analysis of 134 cohorts.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2023Pooled it
- Prevalence of mental health symptoms in children and adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic: A meta-analysis.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2023Pooled it
- Changes in sleep quality and sleep disturbances in the general population from before to during the COVID-19 lockdown: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Pooled it
- Can we mitigate the psychological impacts of social isolation using behavioural activation? Long-term results of the UK BASIL urgent public health COVID-19 pilot randomised controlled trial and living systematic review.Evidence-based mental health · 2022Pooled it
- Mental disorders following COVID-19 and other epidemics: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Translational psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
- When the Bough Breaks: A systematic review and meta-analysis of mental health symptoms in mothers of young children during the COVID-19 pandemic.Infant mental health journal · 2022Pooled it
- A systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal cohort studies comparing mental health before versus during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.Journal of affective disorders · 2022Pooled it
- Some of us are most at risk: Systematic review and meta-analysis of correlates of depressive symptoms among healthcare workers during the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2021Pooled it
- Global Prevalence of Depressive and Anxiety Symptoms in Children and Adolescents During COVID-19: A Meta-analysis.JAMA pediatrics · 2021Pooled it
- Prevalence of Anxiety in Dental Students during the COVID-19 Outbreak: A Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- Prevalence of anxiety in health care professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic: A rapid systematic review (on published articles in Medline) with meta-analysis.Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry · 2021Pooled it
- Post-secondary Student Mental Health During COVID-19: A Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Pooled it
- Behavioural activation to prevent depression and loneliness among socially isolated older people with long-term conditions: The BASIL COVID-19 pilot randomised controlled trial.PLoS medicine · 2021Trial
- Impact of announced wait time information on emergency department overcrowding mitigation: a simulation study.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2026Article
- Who gets included? Equity in digital and decentralised mental health and neurodevelopmental trials: A systematic review.PLOS digital health · 2026Article
- A Cross-Sectional Study Examining Vaccine Uptake and Attitudes Among Parents Compared to Other Adults.Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education · 2026Article
- Mental health of healthcare workers in England during the first three years of the COVID-19 pandemic: The NHS CHECK study cohort.PloS one · 2026Article
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9 authors.
Matthias PierceCentre for Women's Mental Health, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK. Electronic address: matthias.pierce@manchester.ac.uk.
Sally McManusNational Centre for Social Research, London, UK; School of Health Sciences, City University London, London, UK.
Curtis JessopNational Centre for Social Research, London, UK.
Ann JohnPopulation Data Science, Farr Institute of Health Informatics Research, Swansea University Medical School, Swansea University, Swansea, UK.
Matthew HotopfDepartment of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.
Tamsin FordDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Stephani HatchDepartment of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.
Simon WesselyDepartment of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.
Kathryn M AbelCentre for Women's Mental Health, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK.
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Medical Research Council MR/V027751/1Wellcome Trust
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Interdisciplinary ResearchMental HealthBetacoronavirusCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19Health SurveysHumansPandemicsPneumonia, ViralSARS-CoV-2
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