Mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: Impacts of disease, social isolation, and financial stressors.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although research shows that the Covid-19 pandemic has led to declines in mental health, the existing research has not identified the pathways through which this decline happens.

Aims

The current study identifies the distinct pathways through which COVID-induced stressors (i.e., social distancing, disease risk, and financial stressors) trigger mental distress and examines the causal impact of these stressors on mental distress.

Methods

We combined evidence of objective pandemic-related stressors collected at the county level (e.g., lack of social contact, infection rates, and unemployment rates) with self-reported survey data from over 11.5 million adult respondents in the United States collected daily for eight months. We used mediation analysis to examine

SUBMITTER: Kraut RE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9683625 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature