{"id":2871,"date":"2020-12-21T11:43:28","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T19:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2871"},"modified":"2020-12-22T11:45:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T19:45:17","slug":"face-covering-adherence-is-positively-associated-with-better-mental-health-and-wellbeing-a-longitudinal-analysis-of-the-covidlife-surveys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/21\/face-covering-adherence-is-positively-associated-with-better-mental-health-and-wellbeing-a-longitudinal-analysis-of-the-covidlife-surveys\/","title":{"rendered":"Face Covering Adherence Is Positively Associated with Better Mental Health and Wellbeing a Longitudinal Analysis of the CovidLife Surveys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed]<\/i> A longitudinal UK-wide survey found that individuals who wore face coverings &#8220;most of the time&#8221; or &#8220;always&#8221; had better mental health and wellbeing than those who did not, even after controlling for behavioral, social, and psychological factors. The odds of feeling anxious were 58% lower among individuals who \u201calways\u201d adhered to guidance on wearing face coverings, and the odds of having depressive symptoms were 25% lower among individuals who \u201calways\u201d adhered to the guidance.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Altschul et al. (Dec 20, 2020). Face Covering Adherence Is Positively Associated with Better Mental Health and Wellbeing a Longitudinal Analysis of the CovidLife Surveys. Pre-print downloaded Dec 21 from <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medrxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2020.12.18.20248477v1\">https:\/\/www.medrxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2020.12.18.20248477v1<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] A longitudinal UK-wide survey found that individuals who wore face coverings &#8220;most of the time&#8221; or &#8220;always&#8221; had better mental health and wellbeing than those who did not, even after controlling for behavioral, social, and psychological factors. The odds of feeling anxious were 58% lower among individuals who \u201calways\u201d adhered to guidance&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/21\/face-covering-adherence-is-positively-associated-with-better-mental-health-and-wellbeing-a-longitudinal-analysis-of-the-covidlife-surveys\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[74,37],"topic":[22],"class_list":["post-2871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-masks","tag-non-pharm-interventions","topic-non-pharmaceutical-interventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2872,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2871\/revisions\/2872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2871"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}