Trends in depression & anxiety symptom severity among mental health service attendees during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Background

General population surveys have shown that some groups, particularly young women, experienced increased distress during nationally mandated restrictions to control the spread of COVID-19. However, there has been limited research on such trends among people with pre-existing mental health conditions, leaving mental health services ill equipped to plan for current and future lockdowns.

Methods

Mean weekly scores on the GAD-7 and PHQ-9 between 01/01/2020-22/06/2020 (n=9,538 individuals) for all patients of two psychological treatment services (Improving Access to Psychological Therapies) in London, were compared to mean weekly scores from the same time periods in 2017-2019 (n=37,849). The proportion of scores which were above the clinical thresholds for 'caseness' ea

SUBMITTER: Saunders R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8374083 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature