Anxiety, depression and sleep problems: a second wave of COVID-19

Peretti‐Watel, Patrick; Alleaume, Caroline; Léger, Damien; Beck, François; Verger, Pierre

doi:10.1136/gpsych-2020-100299

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“…In terms of housing conditions, 9% of participants were confined in an overcrowded household, but that was the case for 23% of low-income respondents (compared with 1% of high-income respondents). Overcrowded housing can impair mental health, and the lockdown made crowded situations even more unbearable because engaging in outdoor activities typically is the easiest way to cope with such situations ( 6 , 7 ).…”

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Attitudes about COVID-19 Lockdown among General Population, France, March 2020

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Seror²,

Cortaredona³

et al. 2021

Emerg. Infect. Dis.

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Attitudes about COVID-19 Lockdown among General Population, France, March 2020

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Cortaredona³

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“…In addition, a review of mental health following more extreme measures of quarantine finds long-term psychological sequelae [7]. Taken together, this literature has raised the concern of a "second pandemic" of morbidity due to mental health problems following COVID-19 [8].…”

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“…Three population-representative studies-in the UK, the US, and Franceappear in the literature. All studies report worse mental health in Spring 2020 relative to previous years [8][9][10][11]. Ettman and colleagues, for instance, find a much greater prevalence of depressive symptoms among adults in the US in April 2020 relative to 2017/2018.…”

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“…First, the UK, the US, and France all rank in the top 15 worldwide in COVID-19 deaths per population as of November 30, 2020 [12]. This circumstance leaves open the question of whether experienced national severity of the pandemic (through media reports [8] or through direct experiences), or the social and work restrictions imposed by a lockdown per se , drive results. Second, none of these studies includes measures of mental health and/or wellbeing immediately before the lockdown.…”

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Risk of Stress/Depression and Functional Impairment in Denmark Immediately Following a COVID-19 Shutdown

Andersen

Fallesen

Bruckner

2020

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Background This study aimed to investigate the impact of the first COVID-19 lockdown (March-April 2020) on risk for stress/depression and functional impairment in a representative sample of adult individuals in Denmark, and whether the impact of lockdown was heterogeneous across living situation. Methods: Using a representative, randomly drawn sample from the complete Danish adult population interviewed in March 2 to April 13, 2020 (n=2,836) and again in July 2020 (n=1,526, 54% retention rate), we study how the imposed lockdown announced March 11 following the onset of the first Danish wave of COVID-19 infections affected mental wellbeing. We use the World Health Organization Five Well-being Index (WHO-5) and the Work and Social Adjustment Scale (WSAS) to capture wellbeing and functioning. Using covariate adjusted ordinary least squares linear probability models and exploiting variation in the timing of responses occurring just before and just after the introduction of lockdown, we compare respondents before lockdown to respondents that answered during lockdown, as well to answers in re-interviews in July. Results: We find reduced depressive symptoms among adults immediately after the shutdown, concentrated in adults with children living at home. Measures of functional impairment also decline immediately after the March shutdown among adults with children living at home. Impairment intensified for the entire sample between March and July, but depressive symptoms remained at lower rate in July. Conclusions: Findings in Denmark indicate that living with children at home may have, in the short term, buffered the potential mental health sequelae of the COVID-19 shutdown.

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“…2 This high acceptability in young people, although perhaps counterintuitive from the perspective of a somatic benefit–risk analysis, is understandable from the vantage point of social factors and mental health—consequences that are likely to be most pronounced in this age group, whose lives have been drastically disrupted by the pandemic. 5 , 6 Vaccination could be an unexpected source of hope for them, evoking the possibility of a return to normal life. Because vaccination of young people might be an effective path to herd immunity, it is essential to understand this group's attitudes towards vaccination against COVID-19.…”

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