ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2023
COVID-19-Related Stressors and Clinical Mental Health Symptoms in a Northeast US Sample.
Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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
8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The impact of changes to work circumstances enforced by COVID-19 on anxiety: a systematic review.Systematic reviews · 2025Pooled it
- Adolescent, Parent, and Healthcare Professional Experiences of a Virtual Day Treatment Program for Eating Disorders During the Transition to Post-Pandemic Times.Clinical child psychology and psychiatry · 2026Article
- C-low threshold mechanoreceptors: a novel target for health-tech in an increasingly touch-deprived world.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2026Review
- Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the monthly proportion of male births and spontaneous fetal death rates in Japan: a descriptive epidemiological study using national vital statistics.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Impact of Face-to-Face and Online Mindfulness-Based Public Health Interventions on Health-Related Quality of Life in Older People: A Comparative Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Latent classes of resilience in a nationwide sample of US adults during COVID-19 pandemic.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- The relationship between COVID-19 stress and test anxiety in art students: the chain mediating roles of intolerance of uncertainty and sleep quality.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Procrastination and Stress: A Conceptual Review of Why Context Matters.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Review
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
11 authors.
Funding
Abstract
Research has linked specific COVID-19-related stressors to the mental health burden, yet most previous studies have examined only a limited number of stressors and have paid little attention to their clinical significance. This study tested the hypothesis that individuals who reported greater COVID-19-related stressors would be more likely to have elevated levels of anxiety, posttraumatic stress symptoms, and serious psychological distress.
methodsAn online survey was administered to a convenience sample from 18 June to 19 July 2020, in US states that were most affected by COVID-19 infections and deaths at the time. Individuals who were 18 or older and residents of five Northeast US states were eligible to participate (N = 1079). In preregistered analyses, we used logistic regression models to test the associations of COVID-19 stressors with symptoms on the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7), Impact of Event Scale-Revised, and K6, adjusting for sociodemographic covariates.
resultsCOVID-19-related stressors (i.e., essential worker status, worry about COVID-19 infection, knowing someone hospitalized by COVID-19, having children under 14 at home, loneliness, barriers to environmental rewards, food insecurity, loss of employment) were associated with meeting thresholds (i.e., positive screening) for anxiety, posttraumatic stress, and/or serious psychological distress. Loneliness and barriers to environmental rewards were associated with all mental health outcomes. LIMITATIONS: We used a non-probability sample and cannot assume temporal precedence of stressors with regard to development of mental health symptoms.
conclusionsThese findings link specific stressors to the mental health burden of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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.