The effects of the pandemic on mental health in persons with and without a psychiatric history.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Prospective studies are needed to assess the influence of pre-pandemic risk factors on mental health outcomes following the COVID-19 pandemic. From direct interviews prior to (T1), and then in the same individuals after the pandemic onset (T2), we assessed the influence of personal psychiatric history on changes in symptoms and wellbeing.

Methods

Two hundred and four (19-69 years/117 female) individuals from a multigenerational family study were followed clinically up to T1. Psychiatric symptom changes (T1-to-T2), their association with lifetime psychiatric history (no, only-past, and recent psychiatric history), and pandemic-specific worries were investigated.

Results

At T2 relative to T1, participants with recent psychopathology (in the last 2 years) had

SUBMITTER: Murphy E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8632413 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature