ReviewPerspectives in public health2023
Mental health and wellbeing among people with informal caring responsibilities across different time points during the COVID-19 pandemic: a population-based propensity score matching analysis.
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- Unpaid caregiving and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic-A systematic review of the quantitative literature.PloS one · 2024Pooled it
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- Unraveling the complexities: A scoping review of the collateral effects on informal caregivers during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.Palliative care and social practice · 2026Review
- Wellbeing of Family Carers of Adults With Intellectual Disabilities During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the UK: Longitudinal Study.Journal of intellectual disability research : JIDR · 2025Article
- Transforming Care Through Co-Design: Developing Inclusive Caregiver-Centered Education in Healthcare.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The impact of informal caregiving on the mental health of health care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic-cross-sectional and longitudinal results from the VOICE study.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Evidence of quality of life for hospitalised patients with COVID-19: a scoping review.Health technology assessment (Winchester, England) · 2024Article
- Suicidality and its associated factors among mood disorder patients in emergency department in China: a comparative study using propensity score matching approach.Translational psychiatry · 2023Article
- Change in health, wellbeing and physical activity levels during the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal cohort of parkrun participants in the United Kingdom.Health promotion international · 2023Article
- Does caring for others affect our mental health? Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2023Article
- The Impact on Parents of Diagnosing PCD in Young Children.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Guilt, tears and burnout-Impact of UK care home restrictions on the mental well-being of staff, families and residents.Journal of advanced nursing · 2022Article
- Understanding the Economic Value and Impacts on Informal Carers of People Living with Mental Health Conditions.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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- A cohort study of the impact of COVID-19 on the quality of life of people newly diagnosed with dementia and their family carers.Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) · 2022Article
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Abstract
aimsDue to a prolonged period of national and regional lockdown measures during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, there has been an increase reliance on informal care for informal carers. In light of this, the current study compared the experiences of carers and non-carers on various mental health and wellbeing measures across six key time points during the pandemic.
methodsData analysed were from the University College London (UCL) COVID -19 Social Study. Our study focused on six time points in England: (1) the first national lockdown (March-April 2020); (2) the beginning of first lockdown rules easing (May 2020); (3) the second national lockdown (November 2020); (4) the third national lockdown (January 2021); (5) the easing of the third lockdown (March 2021); and (6) the end of restrictions (July-August 2021). We considered five mental health and wellbeing measures: depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms, loneliness, life satisfaction, and sense of being worthwhile. Propensity score matching was applied for the analyses.
resultsWe found that informal carers experienced higher levels of depressive and anxiety symptoms than non-carers across much of the pandemic. During the first national lockdown, carers also experienced a higher sense of life being worthwhile. No association was found between informal caring responsibilities and levels of loneliness and life satisfaction.
conclusionGiven that carers are an essential national healthcare support, especially during a pandemic, it is crucial to integrate carers' needs into healthcare planning and delivery. These results highlight that there is a pressing need to provide adequate and targeted mental health support for carers during and following this pandemic.
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