ArticleJournal of psychiatric research2021
Clinical and functional effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and social distancing on vulnerable veterans with psychosis or recent homelessness.
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- Mental Health Impact of Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Individuals with Pre-Existing Mental Disorders: A Systematic Review of Longitudinal Research.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Pooled it
- The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on perceptions of social relationships, negative affect, and paranoid ideation.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2025Article
- Financial health and psychiatric symptoms among veterans with psychosis or recent homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic.Psychological services · 2024Article
- Sustained mental health and functional responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Black and White Veterans with psychosis or recent homelessness.Journal of psychiatric research · 2024Article
- The impact of psychological strengths on Veteran populations' mental health trajectories during the COVID-19 pandemic.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2024Article
- The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on hallucinations and delusions in youth at clinical high-risk for psychosis and outpatients with schizophrenia.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2023Article
- Mental Health Reform: Design and Implementation of a System to Optimize Outcomes for Veterans and Their Families.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Socioeconomic challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic for Veterans with psychosis or recent homelessness.Health & social care in the community · 2022Article
- Adherence to recommended health and social distancing precautions during the COVID-19 pandemic in individuals with schizophrenia and youth at clinical high-risk for psychosis.Schizophrenia research · 2022Article
- Racial differences in the psychosocial response to the COVID-19 pandemic in veterans with psychosis or recent homelessness.The American journal of orthopsychiatry · 2022Article
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- The COVID-19 Pandemic Introduces Diagnostic and Treatment Planning Complexity for Individuals at Clinical High Risk for Psychosis.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2021Article
- Veterans and Nonveterans Coping With Stress During 4 Months of COVID-19.Annals of family medicineArticle
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Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended the lives of everyone in the United States, negatively impacting social interactions, work, and living situations, and potentially exacerbating mental health issues in vulnerable individuals. Within the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) healthcare system, two vulnerable groups include those with a psychotic disorder (PSY) and those who have recently experienced homelessness (recently housed Veterans, RHV). We conducted phone interviews with PSY (n = 81), RHV (n = 76) and control Veterans (CTL, n = 74) between mid-May - mid-August 2020 ("initial") and between mid-August - mid-October 2020 ("follow-up"). At the initial period, we also collected retrospective ratings relative to January 2020 ("pre-COVID-19"). We assessed clinical factors (e.g., depression, anxiety, loneliness) and community integration (e.g., social and role functioning). All groups reported worse clinical outcomes after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, PSY and RHV exhibited improvements in depression and anxiety from initial to follow up, whereas CTL continued to exhibit elevated levels. There was little change in community integration measures. Our results indicate that all groups reported increased mental health problems after the onset of the pandemic, but vulnerable Veterans were not disproportionately affected and had better mental health resilience (i.e., for depression and anxiety) as the pandemic progressed compared to CTL. This effect could be due to the availability and utilization of VA services for PSY and RHV (e.g., housing and financial support, medical and mental health services), which may have helped to mitigate the impact of the pandemic.
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