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COVID-19 bereavement, depressive symptoms, and binge drinking
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused the death of over half a million Americans, leaving in its wake widespread grief and despair. Using national survey data (n = 1998) and a treatment-weighting strategy, this study examines how COVID-19 bereavement associates with depressive symptoms and binge drinki...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8606021/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34841376 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmmh.2021.100041 |
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description | The COVID-19 pandemic has caused the death of over half a million Americans, leaving in its wake widespread grief and despair. Using national survey data (n = 1998) and a treatment-weighting strategy, this study examines how COVID-19 bereavement associates with depressive symptoms and binge drinking. After adjustment for non-random exposure to COVID-19 bereavement, I find that respondents who have lost someone close to them to the virus report greater depressive symptomology and more frequent binge drinking. Among essential workers, the loss of a close tie to COVID-19 exacerbates these associations, with bereavement posing stronger effects for depressive symptoms and binge drinking for members of this group. The implications of these findings for the long-term mental health of the bereaved and those most vulnerable to the virus are discussed. |
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spelling | pubmed-86060212021-11-22 COVID-19 bereavement, depressive symptoms, and binge drinking Grace, Matthew K. SSM Ment Health Article The COVID-19 pandemic has caused the death of over half a million Americans, leaving in its wake widespread grief and despair. Using national survey data (n = 1998) and a treatment-weighting strategy, this study examines how COVID-19 bereavement associates with depressive symptoms and binge drinking. After adjustment for non-random exposure to COVID-19 bereavement, I find that respondents who have lost someone close to them to the virus report greater depressive symptomology and more frequent binge drinking. Among essential workers, the loss of a close tie to COVID-19 exacerbates these associations, with bereavement posing stronger effects for depressive symptoms and binge drinking for members of this group. The implications of these findings for the long-term mental health of the bereaved and those most vulnerable to the virus are discussed. The Author. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2021-12 2021-11-16 /pmc/articles/PMC8606021/ /pubmed/34841376 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmmh.2021.100041 Text en © 2021 The Author 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. |
spellingShingle | Article Grace, Matthew K. COVID-19 bereavement, depressive symptoms, and binge drinking |
title | COVID-19 bereavement, depressive symptoms, and binge drinking |
title_full | COVID-19 bereavement, depressive symptoms, and binge drinking |
title_fullStr | COVID-19 bereavement, depressive symptoms, and binge drinking |
title_full_unstemmed | COVID-19 bereavement, depressive symptoms, and binge drinking |
title_short | COVID-19 bereavement, depressive symptoms, and binge drinking |
title_sort | covid-19 bereavement, depressive symptoms, and binge drinking |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8606021/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34841376 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmmh.2021.100041 |
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