COVID-19 was clearly a driver of mental illness among teens and young adults. In-depth interviews with this population, as well as psychiatrists and psychologists who treat them, revealed four key detrimental impacts of the pandemic on the mental health of youth, with significant implications for...
The COVID-19 pandemic led to a worldwide lockdown and school closures, which have placed a substantial mental health burden on children and college students. Through a systematic search of the literature on PubMed and Collabovid of studies published January 2020–July 2021, our findings of five...
Since December 2019, the world has been experiencing the challenge of facing coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19), a severe infectious disease caused by the n
"Nearly one million U.S. lives have been lost to COVID-19, and there have been almost five million hospitalizations," said the report. "We believe the pandemic's sustained impact on the nation's mental health is unprecedented."■
This chart shows the percentage of U.S. adults showing symptoms of anxiety and/or depressive disorder before and during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Online social engagement and problematic Internet use also conferred greater risk. Women and Latinx participants were more likely to experience elevated distress during the pandemic, even when controlling for distress prior to the pandemic.doi:10.31234/osf.io/2y7huPedro AfonsoActa medica portuguesa...
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Brett Thombs is a psychiatry professor at McGill University, he suggested that some of the public narratives about the mental health impacts of Covid-19 were based on “poor-quality studies and anecdotes”, and that those statements became only self-fulfilling prophecies. On the other hand, expe...
SYDNEY, June 7 (Xinhua) -- Researchers from the University of Sydney have surveyed over 1,000 Australians on their experiences with mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic, and now seek to use the results to inform future policy.
COVID-19 outbreak has been a bolt from the blue in 2020. Lives of people are remotely affected during this epidemic. It started in Wuhan, China has spread across the world (Verma (2020); Tandon, 2020). One of the biggest challenges faced by people is maintaining mental health. Mind stat...