Self-rated mental health among sexual health service clients during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, British Columbia, Canada

We investigated self-reported mental health during the first three months of the COVID-19 pandemic (March–May 2020), using a survey of HIV-testing and sexual health service clients from British Columbia, Canada (N = 1198). Over half (55%) reported their mental health as poor at the beginning of the...

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Autores principales: Salway, Travis, Ablona, Aidan, Chang, Hsiu-Ju, Watt, Sarah, Worthington, Catherine, Grace, Daniel, Wong, Jason, Ogilvie, Gina, Grennan, Troy, Gilbert, Mark
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Published by Elsevier Inc. 2021
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8431968/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34506815
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2021.106789
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author Salway, Travis
Ablona, Aidan
Chang, Hsiu-Ju
Watt, Sarah
Worthington, Catherine
Grace, Daniel
Wong, Jason
Ogilvie, Gina
Grennan, Troy
Gilbert, Mark
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Ablona, Aidan
Chang, Hsiu-Ju
Watt, Sarah
Worthington, Catherine
Grace, Daniel
Wong, Jason
Ogilvie, Gina
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Gilbert, Mark
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description We investigated self-reported mental health during the first three months of the COVID-19 pandemic (March–May 2020), using a survey of HIV-testing and sexual health service clients from British Columbia, Canada (N = 1198). Over half (55%) reported their mental health as poor at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, more than double that of the general Canadian population in the same time frame (22%). Acknowledging that this burden of poor mental health that is likely to persist in the coming years, we propose that sexual health clinics should facilitate access to mental health supports as a low-barrier point of primary care contact.
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spelling pubmed-84319682021-09-10 Self-rated mental health among sexual health service clients during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, British Columbia, Canada Salway, Travis Ablona, Aidan Chang, Hsiu-Ju Watt, Sarah Worthington, Catherine Grace, Daniel Wong, Jason Ogilvie, Gina Grennan, Troy Gilbert, Mark Prev Med Short Communication We investigated self-reported mental health during the first three months of the COVID-19 pandemic (March–May 2020), using a survey of HIV-testing and sexual health service clients from British Columbia, Canada (N = 1198). Over half (55%) reported their mental health as poor at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, more than double that of the general Canadian population in the same time frame (22%). Acknowledging that this burden of poor mental health that is likely to persist in the coming years, we propose that sexual health clinics should facilitate access to mental health supports as a low-barrier point of primary care contact. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2021-12 2021-09-08 /pmc/articles/PMC8431968/ /pubmed/34506815 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2021.106789 Text en © 2021 Published by Elsevier Inc. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Salway, Travis
Ablona, Aidan
Chang, Hsiu-Ju
Watt, Sarah
Worthington, Catherine
Grace, Daniel
Wong, Jason
Ogilvie, Gina
Grennan, Troy
Gilbert, Mark
Self-rated mental health among sexual health service clients during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, British Columbia, Canada
title Self-rated mental health among sexual health service clients during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, British Columbia, Canada
title_full Self-rated mental health among sexual health service clients during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, British Columbia, Canada
title_fullStr Self-rated mental health among sexual health service clients during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, British Columbia, Canada
title_full_unstemmed Self-rated mental health among sexual health service clients during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, British Columbia, Canada
title_short Self-rated mental health among sexual health service clients during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, British Columbia, Canada
title_sort self-rated mental health among sexual health service clients during the first months of the covid-19 pandemic, british columbia, canada
topic Short Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8431968/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34506815
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2021.106789
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