Particularly, health systems are suffering more than other systems. In this global humanitarian crisis of COVID-19 pandemic, mental health issues are sometimes ignored or kept aside as a secondary issue. This article highlights some of the hidden, yet understudied parts of mental health iss...
This pattern was apparent both during the first wave and during subsequent COVID-19 waves. Issues linked directly to the pandemic therefore seem to have replaced rather than exacerbated underlying anxieties. Conditional on infection rates, suicide-related calls increased when containment policies became ...
Mental health visits for new mothers were 30% higher during the COVID-19 pandemic than before the pandemic, particularly in the first 3 months after giving birth, found new research in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). “Increased visit rates began in March 2020, altho...
The researchers from the University of Liverpool and Maynooth University, reviewed 65 longitudinal cohort studies comparing mental health prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Primary meta-analysis of predominantly European and North American studies showed that there was a statistically small overal...
While news media chronicled the stress of college students during campus closures and mandated relocations, there is no empirical data examining the mental health of U.S. college students who were mandated to relocate during the COVID-19 pandemic. College students in Spain reported depression and ...
Mental health and psychosocial problems of medical health workers during the COVID-19 epidemic in China. Psychother Psychosom. 2020:1–9. Lu W, Wang H, Lin Y, Li L. Psychological status of medical workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study. Psychiatry Res. 2020;288:...
This cohort study explores the outcomes of the COVID-19 pandemic on secondary school students’ mental health difficulties, as well the associations with
The spread of the novel coronavirus has presented unique challenges to public health and health care systems around the world, including new challenges for addressing mental health concerns. As people across the country and world deal with new stressors
Therefore, we anticipate that COVID-19 might also influence children and adolescents’ mental health. This study aims to understand Chinese adolescents’ mental health status during the COVID-19 period and examine whether there is a clinically significant difference in anxiety, depression, and ...
This study primarily aims to investigate changes in women's mental health during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic using the PHQ-2 scale. A secondary aim is to determine whether women with pre-existing depressive symptoms are more vul- 1 3 Women's Mental Health During COVID-19 ...