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Serious distress in first month of COVID‐19 equal to 2019
Author(s) -
Canady Valerie A.
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
mental health weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7583
pISSN - 1058-1103
DOI - 10.1002/mhw.32645
Subject(s) - covid-19 , distress , pandemic , psychological distress , psychology , longitudinal study , sample (material) , demography , clinical psychology , medicine , psychiatry , mental health , virology , sociology , pathology , disease , chemistry , chromatography , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty)
The prevalence of psychological distress during the early months of COVID‐19 is equal to the psychological distress among Americans during the entire year prior to the pandemic, according to RAND Corporation researchers. Their study, they said, represents the first longitudinal analysis of psychological distress during the pandemic in a nationally representative sample of U.S. adults.