Risk of stress/depression and functional impairment in Denmark immediately following a COVID-19 shutdown.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Existing estimates of the impact of the COVID-19 burden on mental wellbeing come from countries with high mortality rates. This study therefore aimed to investigate the impact of the first COVID-19 lockdown (March-April 2020) on risk for stress/depression and functional impairment in a representative sample of adult individuals in Denmark, which had lower infection rates, and whether the impact of lockdown was heterogeneous across living situation.

Methods

Using a representative, randomly drawn sample from the complete Danish adult population interviewed in March 2 to April 13, 2020 (n = 2836) and again in July 2020 (n = 1526, 54% retention rate), we study how the imposed lockdown announced March 11 following the onset of the first Danish wave of COVID-19 infectio

SUBMITTER: Andersen LH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8149922 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature