ArticleSSM. Mental health2021
COVID-19 and gender differences in mental health in low- and middle-income countries: Young working women are more vulnerable.
Article in SSM. Mental health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Financial well-being and financial stress as predictors of overall well-being and life satisfaction among Peruvian workers.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Adult female callers' characteristics and mental health status: a retrospective study based on the psychological assistance hotline in Hangzhou.BMC public health · 2023Article
- The Role of Self-Compassion and Attributions in the Mental Health of Older Adolescents amid the COVID-19 Pandemic.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
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- The Indirect Effect of Sleep on the Association Between Protracted Social Stressors and Psychological Distress Among Hong Kong Young People.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2023Article
- Systems thinking on the gendered impacts of COVID-19 in Bangladesh: A systematic review.Heliyon · 2023Review
- Stress and coping strategies among higher secondary and undergraduate students during COVID-19 pandemic in Nepal.PLOS global public health · 2023Article
- Mobilizing digital technology to implement a population-based psychological support response during the COVID-19 pandemic in Lima, Peru.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2022Article
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Abstract
This study examines gender differences in the relationship between COVID-19-triggered economic hardship and mental health complaints, defined by self-reported anxiety/depression, of young people (17-29) in four low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). To do this, we use two waves of the Young Lives (YL) phone survey. Logistic regression results show that young women, on average, were more likely to report anxiety than men in Peru and Vietnam in the first survey wave (June-July 2020). However, this disparity continued to persist in all four countries in the second wave (August-October 2020) as the pandemic prolonged. Notably, we find that young women that faced economic hardship by losing job or income were more likely to report anxiety than their male counterparts. As COVID-19 cases remain consistently high in many LMICs, which limit economic activities, the vulnerability of young women may likely increase. This issue requires urgent policy attention by awareness-raising campaigns, more hotline services for emergency help, social security programs for women, and available women's sexual and reproductive health services at a specific section in hospitals.
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