Mental health and resilience after the covid-19 pandemic: a multi-ethnic longitudinal survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Longitudinal work on the impact of COVID-19 on population mental health and resilience beyond the first year of the pandemic is lacking. We aimed to understand how mental health and resilience evolved during the pandemic (2020) and two years later (2022) in a multi-ethnic Singaporean population. In addition, we assessed what characteristics were associated with mental health and resilience scores.

Methods

We surveyed and analysed two balanced panel samples up to four times between 30^th April 2020 and 11^th July 2022. One panel assessed psychological distress (Kessler-10) and well-being (short Warwick Edinburgh Mental Well-being scale) n = 313, and one panel assessed resilience (10-item Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale^©) n = 583. A l

SUBMITTER: Sumner J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10676608 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature