Income or Job Loss and Psychological Distress During the COVID-19 Pandemic
JAMA Network Open,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
7(7), С. e2424601 - e2424601
Опубликована: Июль 30, 2024
Importance
Given
the
expiration
of
expanded
unemployment
and
other
benefits
during
COVID-19
pandemic,
it
is
important
to
understand
association
between
pandemic
income
or
job
loss
long-term
implications
on
mental
health.
Objective
To
evaluate
due
later
psychological
distress.
Design,
Setting,
Participants
This
cohort
study
used
5
waves
nationally
representative,
longitudinal
survey
data
(September
16,
2019,
through
September
18,
2022)
from
Pew
Research
Center’s
American
Trends
Panel.
Doubly
robust
propensity
score–weighted
quasi-Poisson
models
were
estimate
self
household
early
phase
with
distress,
while
controlling
for
pre–income
characteristics
(demographics,
finances,
distress).
The
sample
comprised
US
working-age
adults
(aged
18-64
years)
who
had
not
experienced
by
March
24,
2020.
Exposure
Participant-reported
(ie,
reduced
hours
demand
work)
COVID19
2020,
August
Main
Outcome
Measures
Psychological
distress
was
measured
using
a
composite
scale
0
15
based
participants’
reported
frequency
feeling
depressed,
edge,
sleepless,
lonely,
hopeless
in
past
week
February
2021,
2022.
Results
Of
1392
(survey
weighted
52.7%
male
47.7%
aged
30-49
before
35.7%
24
Early-phase
associated
higher
2021
(estimated
ratio,
1.09;
95%
CI,
1.01-1.18;
P
=
.03)
2022
1.11;
1.02-1.22;
.02)
among
participants
compared
mean
group
did
experience
loss.
Conclusions
Relevance
These
small
but
significant
within-person
associations
early-phase
up
29
months
suggest
that
policies
are
needed
support
people
help
mitigate
adverse
health
outcomes
economic
disruption.
Язык: Английский
Mental health symptoms and associated factors among primary healthcare workers in China during the post-pandemic era
Frontiers in Public Health,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
12
Опубликована: Май 14, 2024
The
impact
of
the
COVID-19
pandemic
on
mental
health
among
healthcare
workers
has
been
widely
reported
during
initial
and
ongoing
phases
pandemic.
Yet,
little
remains
known
about
status
primary
in
China
post-pandemic
era.
Язык: Английский
Educational differences in mental health-related quality of life during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany: the mediating role of pandemic-induced psychosocial stress
Frontiers in Public Health,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
13
Опубликована: Май 1, 2025
A
large
body
of
evidence
shows
poorer
mental
health
among
lower
socioeconomic
groups,
with
chronic
stress
being
an
important
pathway
in
this
relationship.
It
was
expected
that
the
people
low
status
may
have
been
particularly
affected
by
COVID-19
pandemic.
While
it
has
established
also
impacted
during
pandemic,
aim
study
to
analyze
if
pandemic-induced
psychosocial
(PIPS)
mediated
educational
differences
health-related
quality
life
(MHRQOL)
and
which
domains
were
affected.
The
data
came
from
population-based
representative
"Corona
Monitoring
Nationwide
-
Wave
2
(RKI-SOEP-2),"
November
2021-February
2022,
restricted
working
age
population
(18-67
years,
n
=
7,425).
mediating
role
PIPS
(fractional
rank
variable
0
[lowest]
1
[highest
education])
MHRQOL
assessed
for
family,
partnership,
financial
situation,
work/school,
social
life,
leisure
time.
We
used
causal
mediation
analysis
estimate
total,
indirect,
direct
effects.
increased
higher
education.
Higher
education
associated
more
domain's
time,
while
PIPS.
significantly
MHRQOL.
No
significant
effect
found
partnership
work/school
contributed
MHRQOL,
different
levels
showing
domains.
Group-targeted
domain-specific
approaches
prevention
intervention
should
be
considered.
Язык: Английский
Household-income trajectories and mental health inequalities in Germany before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic: a quasi-experimental panel study
International Journal for Equity in Health,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
24(1)
Опубликована: Май 19, 2025
Abstract
Background
The
COVID-19
pandemic
disrupted
progress
toward
achieving
the
Sustainable
Development
Goals
(SDGs),
particularly
SDG
10
(Reduced
Inequalities)
and
3
(Good
Health
Well-Being).
In
Germany,
labor
market
volatility,
compounded
by
record
inflation,
widened
social
inequalities
contributed
to
a
gradient
in
mental
health.
This
study
examines
relationship
between
household
income
health
before,
during,
after
German
working
population,
addressing
whether
burdens
persisted
post-pandemic.
Methods
Using
Socioeconomic
Panel
(v39.0),
we
applied
quasi-experimental
design
employing
‘placebo
control’
approach
obtain
difference-in-difference
(DiD)
estimates.
For
this
purpose,
created
an
‘intervention’
sample
consisting
of
respondents
exposed
(
N
=
8,340,
2018–2022)
sample,
not
11,869,
2014–2018),
designed
mimic
intervention
sample.
Sequence
analysis
identified
six
typical
trajectories
(S1–S6):
high,
regular,
fluctuating-I-II,
low
unemployed.
We
used
estimation
methods
assess
impacts
these
during
post-pandemic,
stratified
gender.
Results
results
confirmed
strong
tied
income.
males,
caused
decline
~
¼
standard
deviation
for
reflecting
regular
(S2),
fluctuating
(S3),
(S5)
(e.g.,
S3-DiD
-2.043
**
),
while
those
high
or
unemployed
were
unaffected.
Females
experienced
more
generalized
across
all
trajectories.
Post-pandemic,
showed
signs
recovery
but
did
fully
return
pre-pandemic
levels.
Conclusions
These
findings
revealed
that
(S2–S5)
are
vulnerable
crises.
disproportionately
affected,
highlighting
need
targeted
public
interventions.
Strengthening
institutional
supports,
such
as
childcare,
gender
disparities
can
help
build
resilience
advance
SDGs.
Язык: Английский
The development of suicide risk in people with severe mental disorders during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic: a claims-based cohort study
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology,
Год журнала:
2023,
Номер
59(7), С. 1193 - 1200
Опубликована: Ноя. 23, 2023
In
this
study,
we
assess
how
the
first
and
second
waves
of
COVID-19
pandemic
influenced
suicide
risk
patients
with
severe
mental
disorders
in
Germany.
Язык: Английский