Depression deterioration of older adults during the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak in Europe.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale

Determining who is particularly vulnerable to mental health deterioration during the COVID-19 pandemic is essential when designing and targeting interventions to mitigate the adverse psychological impacts of the outbreak. Older people have appeared to be less exposed to mental health deterioration compared with younger individuals, but most exposed to the risk of severe illness and death from the virus, as well as less equipped to use technologies for coping with lockdown measures.

Objective

Amongst the old population, we aim at determining how depressive symptoms have changed during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic and identifying individual risk factors associated with changes in reporting depression. We are particularly interested in exploring the role of

SUBMITTER: Paccagnella O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8848543 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature