Prevalence and predictors of general psychiatric disorders and loneliness during COVID-19 in the United Kingdom.

ABSTRACT: Despite ample research on the prevalence of specific psychiatric disorders during COVID-19, we know little about the broader psychological impact of the pandemic on a wider population. The study investigates the prevalence and predictors of general psychiatric disorders measured by the 12-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) and frequency of loneliness during COVID-19 in the United Kingdom, a country heavily hit by the pandemic. We analyzed 15,530 respondents of the first large-scale, nationally representative survey of COVID-19 in a developed country, the first wave of Understanding Society COVID-19 Study. Results show that 29.2% of the respondents score 4 or more, the caseness threshold, on the general psychiatric disorder measure, and 35.86% of the respondents sometimes or often f

SUBMITTER: Li LZ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7326403 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature