Mental-health crisis from Covid pandemic was minimal - study

BBC
Mar 09, 2023

Mental-health crisis from Covid pandemic was minimal - study


People's general mental health and anxiety symptoms hardly deteriorated at all during the pandemic, research suggests.

Most people are resilient and made the best of a difficult situation, it says.

The BMJ review analysed 137 studies, most from high-income European and Asian countries.

Depression became a little worse overall and among women, older people, university students and those belonging to sexual or gender minorities.

 

Other studies have found women felt the impact of the pandemic more because of the jobs they do and the role they play in family life.

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