ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2022
A Longitudinal Nationwide Study of Psychological Distress During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Chile.
Article in Frontiers in psychiatry, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 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
24 citing papers in PubMed, 50 citations in OpenAlex.
- Divergent trajectories of psychological distress during the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic in Japan.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Learning the hard way: What COVID-19 teaches us about the social determinants of mental health among the urban poor.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Prevalence and social determinants of anxiety and depressive disorders and symptoms among adults in Ghana: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2026Review
- Change in psychological distress and associated factors among Hong Kong young adults in post-COVID-19 era: a latent transition analysis.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2025Article
- How personality functioning relates to psychological distress and behavioral attitudes during the Covid-19 pandemic.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2025Article
- Article
- Analysis of IPV success treatment from an AI approach.PloS one · 2025Article
- Development will (try to) find its way: a qualitative study of Chilean adolescent mental health during and after lockdown.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2024Article
- Comparing temporal changes and predictors of different types of mental health and socio-emotional wellbeing outcomes during COVID-19: an overlapping panel study of Spanish residents.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Article
- Relationship between oral health and depression: data from the National Health Survey 2016-2017.BMC oral health · 2024Article
- The challenges of mental health in Chilean university students.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Development and validation of the Environmental Confinement Stressors Scale (ECSS-20).Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Gender differences in life expectancy free of depressive symptoms in Chile between 2003 and 2016.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2024Article
- Temporal dynamics of socioeconomic inequalities in depressive and anxiety symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic: a scoping review.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Factor structure and measurement invariance of the Patient Health Questionnaire-4 among the Chilean population.PloS one · 2024Article
- Suicidal ideation among young adults in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from a population-based cross-sectional study.Health promotion and chronic disease prevention in Canada : research, policy and practice · 2023Article
- Comparative efficacy of remotely delivered mindfulness-based eating awareness training versus behavioral-weight loss counseling during COVID-19.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Can Homes Affect Well-Being? A Scoping Review among Housing Conditions, Indoor Environmental Quality, and Mental Health Outcomes.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Suicide and quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic: Do we know everything?Social science & medicine (1982) · 2022Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Background: Despite numerous efforts to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health, there are few longitudinal studies that examine the change in the burden of psychological distress over time and its associated factors, especially in developing countries. Objective: The primary aim of this study was to assess the levels of psychological distress at two time points during the COVID-19 outbreak based on a representative community sample in Chile. The secondary aim was to identify groups that are more vulnerable to psychological distress during the pandemic. Methods: A nationally representative, longitudinal telephone survey of Chilean adults was conducted. This study analyses panel data from two waves in 2020: May 30 to June 10 and September 15 to October 9. A total of 823 people participated in both surveys. Changes in mental health outcomes (anxiety and depressive symptoms) were assessed, estimating the effect of demographic characteristics, psychosocial and economic factors, household conditions, and health status. Results: There was a significant increase in psychological distress (PHQ-4 ≥ 6) between Waves 1 (22.6%) and 2 (27.0%), especially among younger participants. Overall, the results of this study show that being female, living in or near the capital, living in overcrowded households and having a perceived lack of space in the home, loneliness or perceived social isolation, and having received mental health treatment within the last year are significantly associated with psychological distress over time ( Conclusion: This study highlights the need to implement psychosocial programs to protect people's psychological well-being, as well as social policies to improve household living conditions and levels of social connectedness during the COVID-19 outbreak.
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.