Depression, anxiety and PTSD symptoms before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK.

Katherine S YoungK L PurvesC HübelM R DaviesK N ThompsonS BristowG KrebsA DaneseC HirschC E ParsonsE VassosB N AdeyS BrightL HegemannY T LeeG KalsiD MonssenJ MundyA J PeelC RaynerH C RogersA Ter KuileC WardK YorkY LinA B PalmosU SchmidtD VealeT R NicholsonT A PollakS A M StevelinkT MoukhtarianA R MartineauH HoltB MaughanA Al-ChalabiK Ray ChaudhuriM P RichardsonJ R BradleyP F ChinneryN KingstonS PapadiaK E StirrupsR LingerM HotopfT C EleyGerome D Breen

Published in: Psychological medicine (2022)

We highlight the effect of prior mental health diagnoses on worsening mental health during the pandemic and confirm previously reported sociodemographic risk factors. Discrepancies between prospective and retrospective measures of changes in mental health may be related to recall bias-related underestimation of prior symptom severity.

Keyphrases

mental health
risk factors
sleep quality
mental illness
sars cov
cross sectional
coronavirus disease
depressive symptoms
physical activity
posttraumatic stress disorder