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COVID-19 pandemic coincided with elevated and increasing anxiety and depression symptoms
COVID-19 pandemic coincided with elevated and increasing anxiety and depression symptoms
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Author(s):
- Planalp, Colin, author
Hest, Robert, author
Blewett, Lynn A., author - Contributor(s):
- State Health Access Data Assistance Center (Minn.) issuing body.
- Publication:
- [Minneapolis, Minnesota] : State Health Access Data Assistance Center, July 2021
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Anxiety
COVID-19 -- psychology
Depression
United States - Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- Soon after states began to impose stay-at-home orders to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, the Census Bureau began fielding a new survey to measure the impacts of the crisis on people in the United States. The Household Pulse Survey (HPS) addresses issues such as economic consequences, including employment and income loss; health-related social needs, including food security and access to transportation; and access to health care, including health insurance coverage and difficulties getting medical treatment. The HPS also asks questions about people’s mental health (see below), an issue that has been a serious concern since the beginning of the pandemic. The public health crisis, along with responses to it, imposed extraordinary stress on individuals, such as worries about the deadly coronavirus and the financial toll of historic job losses, while simultaneously constraining access to common coping resources by asking people to limit their in-person social contacts with family, friends and others outside their households. In particular, the HPS asked questions from a four-item screening tool commonly used by health care providers to identify symptoms of anxiety and depression. Since the first fielding of the HPS in early 2020, the data have shown elevated rates of anxiety and depression symptoms among respondents, consistent with findings of similar research by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). These indications of increased mental health burden associated with the coronavirus crisis persisted throughout 2020, and they hint at additional need for mental health care that may require continued attention as the most severe stages of the pandemic abate.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY-NC-ND license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (8 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 9918383088206676 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918383088206676