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Mental health and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: longitudinal analyses of adults in the UK COVID-19 Mental Health & Wellbeing study
BACKGROUND: The effects of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on the population's mental health and well-being are likely to be profound and long lasting. AIMS: To investigate the trajectory of mental health and well-being during the first 6 weeks of lockdown in adults in the UK. METHOD: A quo...
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2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7684009/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33081860 http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2020.212 |
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author | O'Connor, Rory C. Wetherall, Karen Cleare, Seonaid McClelland, Heather Melson, Ambrose J. Niedzwiedz, Claire L. O'Carroll, Ronan E. O'Connor, Daryl B. Platt, Steve Scowcroft, Elizabeth Watson, Billy Zortea, Tiago Ferguson, Eamonn Robb, Kathryn A. |
author_facet | O'Connor, Rory C. Wetherall, Karen Cleare, Seonaid McClelland, Heather Melson, Ambrose J. Niedzwiedz, Claire L. O'Carroll, Ronan E. O'Connor, Daryl B. Platt, Steve Scowcroft, Elizabeth Watson, Billy Zortea, Tiago Ferguson, Eamonn Robb, Kathryn A. |
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description | BACKGROUND: The effects of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on the population's mental health and well-being are likely to be profound and long lasting. AIMS: To investigate the trajectory of mental health and well-being during the first 6 weeks of lockdown in adults in the UK. METHOD: A quota survey design and a sampling frame that permitted recruitment of a national sample was employed. Findings for waves 1 (31 March to 9 April 2020), 2 (10 April to 27 April 2020) and 3 (28 April to 11 May 2020) are reported here. A range of mental health factors was assessed: pre-existing mental health problems, suicide attempts and self-harm, suicidal ideation, depression, anxiety, defeat, entrapment, mental well-being and loneliness. RESULTS: A total of 3077 adults in the UK completed the survey at wave 1. Suicidal ideation increased over time. Symptoms of anxiety, and levels of defeat and entrapment decreased across waves whereas levels of depressive symptoms did not change significantly. Positive well-being also increased. Levels of loneliness did not change significantly over waves. Subgroup analyses showed that women, young people (18–29 years), those from more socially disadvantaged backgrounds and those with pre-existing mental health problems have worse mental health outcomes during the pandemic across most factors. CONCLUSIONS: The mental health and well-being of the UK adult population appears to have been affected in the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. The increasing rates of suicidal thoughts across waves, especially among young adults, are concerning. |
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spelling | pubmed-76840092020-11-24 Mental health and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: longitudinal analyses of adults in the UK COVID-19 Mental Health & Wellbeing study O'Connor, Rory C. Wetherall, Karen Cleare, Seonaid McClelland, Heather Melson, Ambrose J. Niedzwiedz, Claire L. O'Carroll, Ronan E. O'Connor, Daryl B. Platt, Steve Scowcroft, Elizabeth Watson, Billy Zortea, Tiago Ferguson, Eamonn Robb, Kathryn A. Br J Psychiatry Paper BACKGROUND: The effects of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on the population's mental health and well-being are likely to be profound and long lasting. AIMS: To investigate the trajectory of mental health and well-being during the first 6 weeks of lockdown in adults in the UK. METHOD: A quota survey design and a sampling frame that permitted recruitment of a national sample was employed. Findings for waves 1 (31 March to 9 April 2020), 2 (10 April to 27 April 2020) and 3 (28 April to 11 May 2020) are reported here. A range of mental health factors was assessed: pre-existing mental health problems, suicide attempts and self-harm, suicidal ideation, depression, anxiety, defeat, entrapment, mental well-being and loneliness. RESULTS: A total of 3077 adults in the UK completed the survey at wave 1. Suicidal ideation increased over time. Symptoms of anxiety, and levels of defeat and entrapment decreased across waves whereas levels of depressive symptoms did not change significantly. Positive well-being also increased. Levels of loneliness did not change significantly over waves. Subgroup analyses showed that women, young people (18–29 years), those from more socially disadvantaged backgrounds and those with pre-existing mental health problems have worse mental health outcomes during the pandemic across most factors. CONCLUSIONS: The mental health and well-being of the UK adult population appears to have been affected in the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. The increasing rates of suicidal thoughts across waves, especially among young adults, are concerning. Cambridge University Press 2020-10-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7684009/ /pubmed/33081860 http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2020.212 Text en © The Authors 2020 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Paper O'Connor, Rory C. Wetherall, Karen Cleare, Seonaid McClelland, Heather Melson, Ambrose J. Niedzwiedz, Claire L. O'Carroll, Ronan E. O'Connor, Daryl B. Platt, Steve Scowcroft, Elizabeth Watson, Billy Zortea, Tiago Ferguson, Eamonn Robb, Kathryn A. Mental health and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: longitudinal analyses of adults in the UK COVID-19 Mental Health & Wellbeing study |
title | Mental health and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: longitudinal analyses of adults in the UK COVID-19 Mental Health & Wellbeing study |
title_full | Mental health and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: longitudinal analyses of adults in the UK COVID-19 Mental Health & Wellbeing study |
title_fullStr | Mental health and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: longitudinal analyses of adults in the UK COVID-19 Mental Health & Wellbeing study |
title_full_unstemmed | Mental health and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: longitudinal analyses of adults in the UK COVID-19 Mental Health & Wellbeing study |
title_short | Mental health and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: longitudinal analyses of adults in the UK COVID-19 Mental Health & Wellbeing study |
title_sort | mental health and well-being during the covid-19 pandemic: longitudinal analyses of adults in the uk covid-19 mental health & wellbeing study |
topic | Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7684009/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33081860 http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2020.212 |
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