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ArticlePLOS global public health2024

Our lifestyles are back to 'normal', but is our mental health? Longitudinal assessment of psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic among Spanish adults: April 2021 to August 2022.

Aviana O Rosen, Maria Dolores Hidalgo, Colleen B Mistler, Nekane Balluerka, Arantxa Gorostiaga, Juana Gómez-Benito, Ashley L Holmes, Tania B Huedo-Medina

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Aviana O RosenDepartment of Allied Health Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3533-5682
Maria Dolores HidalgoDepartment of Basic Psychology and Methodology, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6256-718X
Colleen B MistlerDepartment of Allied Health Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America.
Nekane BalluerkaDepartment of Clinical and Health Psychology, and Research Methods, School of Psychology, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Donostia, Spain.
Arantxa GorostiagaDepartment of Clinical and Health Psychology, and Research Methods, School of Psychology, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Donostia, Spain.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3477-3488
Juana Gómez-BenitoGroup on Measurement Invariance and Analysis of Change (GEIMAC), Institute of Neuroscience, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Ashley L HolmesDepartment of Health Policy, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C, United States of America.
Tania B Huedo-MedinaDepartment of Allied Health Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America.

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Research Training Program in Substance Use PreventionT32DA019426 · NIDA · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI TAMI P SULLIVAN · 2005 to 2026
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NIDA NIH HHS T32 DA019426
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Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic had a detrimental effect on mental health since its start in 2020 and current data on mental health is limited. This study provides recent longitudinal data on psychological distress among a country-wide sample of adults. We recruited and surveyed 1,956 adults in Spain in April 2021 and August 2022 on sociodemographic- and pandemic-related psychological distress using the General Distress 21-item version of the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale (DASS). Paired sampled t-tests assessed DASS scores by sex from April 2021 to August 2022; and one-way ANOVAs assessed DASS scores across sociodemographic characteristics. Results showed that psychological distress slightly improved across the total sample from April 2021 to August 2022; though females, young adults, students, and individuals with lower income experienced more psychological distress. Increases in severe stress scores were found particularly among men. Our data provides an overview of the psychological distress of Spanish adults 2.5 years into the pandemic and provides novel evidence that though life has resumed a sense of normalcy after the COVID-19 pandemic, the mental health of key populations (e.g., females, young adults, students, low-income) is still suffering and further intervention and resources are needed.

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