ArticleDisability and health journal2021
Findings from an online survey on the mental health effects of COVID-19 on Canadians with disabilities and chronic health conditions.
Article in Disability and health journal, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
44 citing papers in PubMed, 116 citations in OpenAlex.
- Psychosocial Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Women with Spinal Cord Injury.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Trial
- "Everything has changed since COVID": Ongoing challenges faced by Canadian adults with intellectual disabilities during waves 2 and 3 of the COVID-19 pandemic.Journal of intellectual disabilities : JOID · 2026Article
- The impact of testing positive versus negative for COVID-19 on health-related quality of life: cross-sectional evidence from the Alberta post-COVID-19 follow-up survey.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2026Article
- Assessing the Living Well in the Community Program for people with disabilities in the context of COVID-19.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences · 2026Article
- Interpretable machine learning for classification and risk factor identification of anxiety, depression, and insomnia symptoms after the full opening of China's COVID-19 lockdown.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- Chronic conditions, disability, and COVID-19 testing and vaccination: A national Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics-Underserved Populations analysis.Annals of epidemiology · 2025Article
- Risk Predictors and Cognitive Outcomes of the Psychosocial Functioning of North American Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Trajectories of depression and anxiety in adults with rare disorders across 13 months during the COVID-19 pandemic.Orphanet journal of rare diseases · 2025Article
- The Work/Care Interface and Parents' Mid-Pandemic Mental Health: Inequalities at the Intersection of Gender and High-Risk Household Status.Society and mental health · 2025Article
- The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on Australia's myasthenia gravis patients: A self-reported survey study.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2025Observational
- Loss of resources and gambling during the COVID-19 pandemic: a three-wave longitudinal study.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- The Impact of Emergency Pandemic HCBS Funding on the Continuity and Security of People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2024Article
- Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on People with Locomotor Disability in North India: A Cross-Sectional Analysis.Annals of rehabilitation medicine · 2024Article
- Factors associated with Covid-19 vaccine acceptance among persons with disabilities: A cross-sectional study in Ghana.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
- Psychological Predictors of COVID-19-Related Anxiety in Vulnerable Groups.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2023Article
- Physical activity and mental health in children and youth during COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2023Review
- Policymaker perspectives on self-management of disease and disabilities using information and communication technologies.Health research policy and systems · 2023Article
- Disabled people's experiences accessing healthcare services during the COVID-19 pandemic: a scoping review.BMC health services research · 2023Article
- The relationship between fear of COVID-19 and depression, anxiety and stress in persons with disabilities: A cross-sectional study.Archives of psychiatric nursing · 2023Article
- Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundAlthough the COVID-19 pandemic has led to worsening mental health outcomes throughout the Canadian population, its effects have been more acute among already marginalized groups, including people with disabilities and chronic health conditions. This paper examines how heightened fears of contracting the virus, financial impacts, and social isolation contribute to declining mental health among this already vulnerable group. OBJECTIVE/HYPOTHESIS: This paper investigates how increases in anxiety, stress, and despair are associated with concerns about getting infected, COVID-19-induced financial hardship, and increased social isolation as a result of adhering to protective measures among people with disabilities and chronic health conditions.
methodsThis study uses original national quota-based online survey data (n = 1027) collected in June 2020 from people with disabilities and chronic health conditions. Three logistic regression models investigate the relationship between COVID-19's effects on finances, concerns about contracting the virus, changes in loneliness and belonging, and measures taken to combat the spread of COVID-19 and reports of increased anxiety, stress, and despair, net of covariates.
resultsModels show that increased anxiety, stress, and despair were associated with negative financial effects of COVID-19, greater concerns about contracting COVID-19, increased loneliness, and decreased feelings of belonging. Net of other covariates, increased measures taken to combat COVID-19 was not significantly associated with mental health outcomes.
conclusionsFindings address how the global health crisis is contributing to declining mental health status through heightened concerns over contracting the virus, increases in economic insecurity, and growing social isolation, speaking to how health pandemics exacerbate health inequalities.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.