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Systematic review of mental health symptom changes by sex or gender in early-COVID-19 compared to pre-pandemic.
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27 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Mental Health Symptom Changes by Sex or Gender Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.JAMA network open · 2026Pooled it
- Impact of COVID-19 mitigations on anxiety and depression amongst university students: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of global health · 2023Pooled it
- COVID-19 and common mental health symptoms in the early phase of the pandemic: An umbrella review of the evidence.PLoS medicine · 2023Pooled it
- Comparison of mental health symptoms before and during the covid-19 pandemic: evidence from a systematic review and meta-analysis of 134 cohorts.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2023Pooled it
- Anxiety and Depression in Women's Cardiovascular Health: Risk Modifiers, Mechanisms and Clinical Implications.Journal of cardiovascular development and disease · 2026Review
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- Assessing Military Mental Health during the Pandemic: A Five Country Collaboration.Current psychiatry reports · 2025Review
- Psychoactive Substance Use and Its Association with Mental Health Symptomatology Among Latvian Medical Students: A Cross-Sectional Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Intersectional Analysis of Suicide-related Emergency Department Visits in Youth in California, 2018-2021.The western journal of emergency medicine · 2025Article
- Exploring the Impact of Online Mental Health Resources During the COVID-19 Pandemic on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Questioning Adults Compared to Heterosexual Adults: Pretest-Posttest Survey Analyses.JMIR formative research · 2025Article
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- The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Gender Mental Health Gap.Health services research · 2025Article
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- Marginalized Identities, Healthcare Discrimination, and Parental Stress about COVID-19.Journal of marriage and the family · 2025Article
- Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the well-being of middle-aged and older Europeans.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Sex differences in reduction of trunk muscle mass related to falls and cognitive function during the COVID-19 pandemic in older adults.Geriatrics & gerontology international · 2024Article
- Intersectional trends in child and adolescent suicide-related emergency department encounters in Florida (2016‒2021).Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open · 2024Article
- Understanding Adolescent Mental Health in the COVID-19 Era: A Psychodynamic Approach.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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Abstract
Women and gender-diverse individuals have faced disproportionate socioeconomic burden during COVID-19. There have been reports of greater negative mental health changes compared to men based on cross-sectional research that has not accounted for pre-COVID-19 differences. We compared mental health changes from pre-COVID-19 to during COVID-19 by sex or gender. MEDLINE (Ovid), PsycINFO (Ovid), CINAHL (EBSCO), EMBASE (Ovid), Web of Science Core Collection: Citation Indexes, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, Wanfang, medRxiv (preprints), and Open Science Framework Preprints (preprint server aggregator) were searched to August 30, 2021. Eligible studies included mental health symptom change data by sex or gender. 12 studies (10 unique cohorts) were included, all of which reported dichotomized sex or gender data. 9 cohorts reported results from March to June 2020, and 2 of these also reported on September or November to December 2020. One cohort included data pre-November 2020 data but did not provide dates. Continuous symptom change differences were not statistically significant for depression (standardized mean difference [SMD] = 0.12, 95% CI -0.09-0.33; 4 studies, 4,475 participants; I
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