Coping Using Sex, Health-Related Behaviors, and Mental Health During COVID-19 Lockdown in the UK.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Peoples' sexual behaviors have changed during the period of enforced COVID-19 social distancing, in some cases, to cope with negative feelings during lockdown. Research on coping using sex is relatively restricted to samples of men with a history of sexual offending, and it is unknown whether coping using sex is associated with health-related behaviors and mental health in the general population.

Aim

We examined if coping using sex before and during lockdown was associated with adverse outcomes (i.e., self-perceived reduction in health-related behaviors and mental health) in a community sample.

Hypotheses

We hypothesized that participants who reported greater use of sex to cope in the weeks preceding lockdown would show a greater decline in health-related b

SUBMITTER: Daly N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9171108 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature