'When will this end? Will it end?' The impact of the March-June 2020 UK COVID-19 lockdown response on mental health: a longitudinal survey of mothers in the Born in Bradford study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To explore clinically important increases in depression/anxiety from before to during the first UK COVID-19 lockdown and factors related to this change, with a particular focus on ethnic differences.

Design

Pre-COVID-19 and lockdown surveys nested within two longitudinal Born in Bradford cohort studies.

Participants

1860 mothers with a child aged 0-5 or 9-13, 48% Pakistani heritage.

Main outcome measures

ORs for a clinically important increase (5 points or more) in depression (eight item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-8)) and anxiety (Generalised Anxiety Disorder Assessment (GAD-7)) in unadjusted regression analyses, repeated with exposures of interest separated by ethnicity to look for differences in magnitude of associations, and lived experienc

SUBMITTER: Dickerson J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8753090 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature