ArticlePreventive medicine2021
Addressing the critical need for long-term mental health data during the COVID-19 pandemic: Changes in mental health from April to September 2020.
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- The Intertwining of Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms, Alcohol, Tobacco or Nicotine Use, and the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Psychological impact of the quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic on the general European adult population: a systematic review of the evidence.Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences · 2022Pooled it
- Changes in alcohol use during COVID-19 and associations with contextual and individual difference variables: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2022Pooled it
- COVID-19 depression and its risk factors in Asia Pacific - A systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of affective disorders · 2022Pooled it
- Breaking Barriers: Understanding Mental Health Care Disparities in Latino and African American Populations.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- Fluctuating recovery: Trajectories of young adult mental health through the COVID-19 pandemic 2020-2022.Journal of affective disorders · 2025Article
- Effect and acceptability of different exercise modes on adult patients with clinically diagnosed depression: a network meta-analysis.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Psychological Problems and Academic Motivation in University Students: A Cross-Sectional Study One Year after the COVID-19 Lockdown in Italy.The Psychiatric quarterly · 2025Article
- A study on the mental health and body weight of Chinese college students in the context of COVID-19: implications for educational practice.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- The role of hopelessness in mediating the relationship between income loss and delaying and foregoing healthcare: Evidence from repeated cross-sectional waves of the Household Pulse Survey.PLOS mental health · 2025Article
- Associations Between Alcohol Delivery Policy and Pandemic Alcohol Use Among Sexual and Gender Minority Youth and Young Adults.Sexuality research & social policy : journal of NSRC : SR & SP · 2024Article
- Predictors of new-onset suicide risk and persistent suicide risk among young adult lesbian, gay and bisexual individuals experiencing the COVID-19 pandemic: a follow-up study.Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences · 2024Article
- Eating disorders and COVID-19 - different or just more?Irish journal of medical science · 2024Article
- Trajectories of Mental Distress Among US Women by Sexual Orientation and Racialized Group During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic.American journal of public health · 2024Article
- Persistence of anxiety among Asian Americans: racial and ethnic heterogeneity in the longitudinal trends in mental well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2024Article
- Community (dis)connectedness and identity among LGBTQIA+ people during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative cross-sectional and longitudinal trajectory study.Psychology and sexuality · 2024Article
- College students' sense of belonging and alcohol use amidst COVID-19: Evidence from a 21-day daily diary study.PloS one · 2024Article
- Depression in the COVID-19 endemic era: Analysis of online self-disclosures by young South Koreans.PloS one · 2024Article
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Abstract
Despite the large amounts of research currently being conducted and the high number of editorials warning about the potential mental health impacts, there is a stunning lack of longitudinal mental health data on the effects of the pandemic. Yet, the pandemic may have sizable long-term impacts on psychological distress and health behaviors-these effects may be long-lasting and may disproportionately affect some demographic groups more than others. Data came from a longitudinal international study of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on adults' psychological distress and wellbeing (N = 1567). We found high rates of depression (55% were diagnosable with probable depression at baseline), anxiety (65%), and risk for PTSD (51%). More than one-third of participants who reported that they drank alcohol indicated that their drinking had increased since the start of the pandemic. Over time, depressive symptoms and suicidal thoughts and behaviors increased significantly, but acute stress symptoms decreased. Specific demographic groups (people of color and sexual and gender minorities) appeared to be at high risk of distress across analyses. Our findings suggest high rates of depression, anxiety, acute stress, and other signs of distress like isolation, hopelessness, and use of substances to cope-even at five-month follow-up. Our findings suggest a need to prioritize availability of, and access to, mental health care during both the pandemic and the recovery.
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