Changes in Prevalence of Mental Illness Among US Adults During Compared with Before the COVID-19 Pandemic

The authors review trend and cohort surveys and administrative data comparing prevalence of mental disorders during, versus, and before the COVID-19 pandemic and changes in mental health disparities. Best evidence suggests clinically significant anxiety-depression point prevalence increased by relat...

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Autores principales: Kessler, Ronald C., Chiu, Wai Tat, Hwang, Irving H., Puac-Polanco, Victor, Sampson, Nancy A., Ziobrowski, Hannah N., Zaslavsky, Alan M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8585610/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35219431
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psc.2021.11.013
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Sumario:The authors review trend and cohort surveys and administrative data comparing prevalence of mental disorders during, versus, and before the COVID-19 pandemic and changes in mental health disparities. Best evidence suggests clinically significant anxiety-depression point prevalence increased by relative-risk (RR) = 1.3 to 1.5 during the pandemic compared with before. This level of increase is much less than the implausibly high RR = 5.0 to 8.0 estimates reported in trend studies early in the pandemic based on less-appropriate comparisons. Changes in prevalence also occurred during the pandemic, but relative prevalence appears not to have changed substantially over this time.

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