{"id":6080,"date":"2021-03-08T18:01:05","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T02:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6080"},"modified":"2021-03-08T18:01:05","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T02:01:05","slug":"a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis-of-longitudinal-cohort-studies-comparing-mental-health-before-versus-during-the-covid-19-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/08\/a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis-of-longitudinal-cohort-studies-comparing-mental-health-before-versus-during-the-covid-19-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Longitudinal Cohort Studies Comparing Mental Health before versus during the COVID-19 Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><i>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed]<\/i> A systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal cohort studies (n = 56) comparing mental health before and during the COVID-19 pandemic showed that there was an overall increase in mental health symptoms that was most pronounced in March-April 2020 (standardized mean change (SMC) = .102) before significantly declining over time (May-July SMC = .067). Mental health symptoms were comparable to pre-pandemic levels by mid-2020 among most population sub-groups and symptom types. Increases in depression and mood disorder symptoms tended to be larger (SMC = 0.22) than those for anxiety and general mental health. The majority of studies sampled European (n=31) or North American (n=16) populations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>Robinson et al.\u00a0(Mar 8, 2021). A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Longitudinal Cohort Studies Comparing Mental Health before versus during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Pre-print downloaded Mar 8 from <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.03.04.21252921\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.03.04.21252921<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] A systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal cohort studies (n = 56) comparing mental health before and during the COVID-19 pandemic showed that there was an overall increase in mental health symptoms that was most pronounced in March-April 2020 (standardized mean change (SMC) = .102) before significantly declining over time (May-July SMC&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/08\/a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis-of-longitudinal-cohort-studies-comparing-mental-health-before-versus-during-the-covid-19-pandemic\/\">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":[44],"topic":[18],"class_list":["post-6080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-mental-health-personal-impact","topic-mental-health-and-personal-impact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6080","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=6080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6081,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6080\/revisions\/6081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6080"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}