This Topical Collection will bring together biological, psychological, public health and epidemiology research related to the broad and critical topic of COVID-19 and mental illness.
Mental illness among teens and young adults has been an increasingly prevalent issue, observed to have been exacerbated by COVID-19. In fact, over the course of the pandemic, youth anxiety and depression doubled globally.[1] The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that the prevalence of ...
This chart shows the percentage of U.S. adults showing symptoms of anxiety and/or depressive disorder before and during the Covid-19 pandemic.
COVID-19 and the Need for Action on Mental Health UN Sustainable Development Group Policy Brief (United Nations, 2020). Tackling the Mental Health Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis: An Integrated, Whole-of-Society Response (OECD, 2021). Rehm, J. & Shield, K. D. Global burden of disease ...
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo described the Covid-19 pandemic as “a trauma for this country,” and compared it to war, in apress conferenceWednesday. “I don’t know that we’ve even fully appreciated all of the effects of the trauma that we’ve gone through,” Cuomo said. “There’...
First Nations (FN) people of Canada experience health, social, and systemic inequities due to colonization. Consequently, COVID-19 has placed further mental health stress on people related to personal finances, employment security and worry over infectio
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...
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has threatened global mental health, both indirectly via disruptive societal changes and directly via neuropsychiatric sequelae after SARS-CoV-2 infection. Despite a small increase in self-reported mental
19. Furthermore, when a person feels impotent to modify his or her circumstances, he or she is more likely to develop mental health issues. The experience of entrapment can be caused by a variety of factors, which the research categorizes as internal and external aspects20,21. During COVID...
A team of researchers undertook a study of the mental health of postgraduate students during the COVID-19 pandemic static management. They determined that when the students received high-level social support, it lessened the stress, anxiety, and depression caused by the static management. ...