
Mental health and wellbeing among people with informal caring responsibilities across different time points during the COVID-19 pandemic: a population-based propensity score matching analysis
Author(s) -
Hei Wan Mak,
Feifei Bu,
Daisy Fancourt
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
perspectives in public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.841
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1757-9139
pISSN - 1757-9147
DOI - 10.1177/17579139221104973
Subject(s) - loneliness , mental health , pandemic , propensity score matching , anxiety , medicine , life satisfaction , social isolation , psychology , population , gerontology , psychiatry , covid-19 , nursing , social psychology , environmental health , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty)
Due to a prolonged period of national and regional lockdown measures during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, there has been an increase reliance on informal care for informal carers. In light of this, the current study compared the experiences of carers and non-carers on various mental health and wellbeing measures across six key time points during the pandemic.