Coping with COVID: risk and resilience factors for mental health in a German representative panel study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic might affect mental health. Data from population-representative panel surveys with multiple waves including pre-COVID data investigating risk and protective factors are still rare.

Methods

In a stratified random sample of the German household population (n = 6684), we conducted survey-weighted multiple linear regressions to determine the association of various psychological risk and protective factors assessed between 2015 and 2020 with changes in psychological distress [(PD; measured via Patient Health Questionnaire for Depression and Anxiety (PHQ-4)] from pre-pandemic (average of 2016 and 2019) to peri-pandemic (both 2020 and 2021) time points. Control analyses on PD change between two pre-pandemic time poi

SUBMITTER: Riepenhausen A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8943230 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature