Stress/depression across the COVID-19 pandemic in Denmark.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Global estimates suggest strained mental health during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the lack of nationally representative and longitudinal data with clinically validated measures limits knowledge longer into the pandemic.

Methods

Data from 10 rounds of nationally representative surveys from Denmark tracked trends in risk of stress/depression from just before the first lockdown and through to April 2022. We focused on age groups and men and women in different living arrangements and controlled for seasonality in mental health that could otherwise be spuriously related to pandemic intensity.

Results

Prior to first lockdown, we observed a "parent gap", which closed with the first lockdown. Instead, a gender gap materialized, with women experien

SUBMITTER: Cardona M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9875528 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature