COVID-19 and gender differences in mental health in low- and middle-income countries: Young working women are more vulnerable

Mobilizing digital technology to implement a population-based psychological support response during the COVID-19 pandemic in Lima, Peru

“…Most of those participating in the offered psychological interventions were women, similar to the proportion of women accessing the emotional support line provided by the MINSA throughout the coronavirus pandemic. It is known that psychological distress is more common in female than male, and this difference may be explained in part by the additional family and home burden that women carry, mainly in low-resource settings where gender inequity exists, and stressful conditions increased considerable during COVID pandemic (Hossain, 2021 ; Herrera-Añazco et al ., 2022 ). Additionally, women are more likely to report psychological distress and deterioration of well-being compared to men (Borrescio-Higa and Valenzuela, 2021 ).…”

Effects of COVID -19 on women’s mental health: A systematic review

“…Likewise, in research conducted by Hossain (16), which involved young people aged 17-29 years from 4 countries, distributed in 1 029 and 1 459 from Ethiopia, 829 and 1 759 from India, 745 and 1 401 from Peru, and 1 581 and 2015 from Vietnam; which sought to identify gender differences based on the economic and mental health effects of COVID-19, it was found that young women are more likely to experience anxiety as a result of the economic effects of the pandemic, as well as the affectation in their well-being generated by the difficulties presented in that period, and there were no significant differences between the economic level of the participating women since in cases of rich and poor women had similar chances of developing anxiety.…”

The Mental Cost of Job Loss: Assessing the Impact on Young Adults in Vietnam

“…Our work differs from these papers in important dimensions Posel et al (2021). andHossain (2021) rely on cross-sectional associations, whileBaranov et al (2022) analyse the impact of household-level job loss on measures of psychological distress.…”

“…To the best of our knowledge, the only available evidence from the LMICs literature is that of Posel et al (2021), Hossain (2021), and Baranov et al (2022). Posel et al (2021) find that adults who retained employment during the COVID-19 lockdown in South Africa had significantly lower depression scores than those who lost employment, and Hossain (2021) finds that young people in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam -particularly women -who faced economic hardship in 2020 (job and/or income loss in the household) were more likely to experience anxiety.…”

“…To the best of our knowledge, the only available evidence from the LMICs literature is that of Posel et al (2021), Hossain (2021), and Baranov et al (2022). Posel et al (2021) find that adults who retained employment during the COVID-19 lockdown in South Africa had significantly lower depression scores than those who lost employment, and Hossain (2021) finds that young people in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam -particularly women -who faced economic hardship in 2020 (job and/or income loss in the household) were more likely to experience anxiety. Lastly, Baranov et al (2022) show that job loss during the pandemic in peri-urban Pakistan led to an increase in adult mental distress and 4 However, the vast majority of the studies during the COVID-19 pandemic are unable to accurately identify the causal relationship between job loss and mental health, and only consider cross-sectional associations.…”