{"id":7045,"date":"2020-05-21T16:16:23","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T23:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7045"},"modified":"2021-03-19T16:17:05","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T23:17:05","slug":"depression-and-loneliness-during-covid-19-restrictions-in-the-united-states-and-their-associations-with-frequency-of-social-and-sexual-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/21\/depression-and-loneliness-during-covid-19-restrictions-in-the-united-states-and-their-associations-with-frequency-of-social-and-sexual-connections\/","title":{"rendered":"Depression and Loneliness during COVID-19 Restrictions in the United States and Their Associations with Frequency of Social and Sexual Connections"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">[pre-print, not peer reviewed]<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In a\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">nation<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ally representative c<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ross-sectional online survey of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">U<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">S adults (N=1<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">010). One-third of participants reported depressive symptoms.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">D<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">epressive symptoms<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0were more commonly reported by w<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">omen<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">those who\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">were unmarried,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">had\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">low-income,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">a<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">nd<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">were\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">age 20-29. Frequent in-person social connections (e.g. hugging family<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">member<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">) and sexual connections (e.g. partnered sexual activity, dating app use) were associated with lower depression and loneliness<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. F<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">requent remote connections (e.g. video chats) were\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">not associated with lower depression or loneliness<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Rosenberg et al. (May\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">20 ,<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">2020). Depression and Loneliness during COVID-19 Restrictions in the United States and Their Associations with Frequency of Social and Sexual Connections. Pre-print downloaded May 21 from\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.05.18.20101840\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.05.18.20101840<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[pre-print, not peer reviewed]\u00a0In a\u00a0nationally representative cross-sectional online survey of\u00a0US adults (N=1,010). One-third of participants reported depressive symptoms.\u00a0\u00a0 Depressive symptoms\u00a0were more commonly reported by women,\u00a0those who\u00a0were unmarried,\u00a0had\u00a0low-income,\u00a0and\u00a0were\u00a0age 20-29. Frequent in-person social connections (e.g. hugging family\u00a0members) and sexual connections (e.g. partnered sexual activity, dating app use) were associated with lower depression and loneliness. Frequent remote connections&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/21\/depression-and-loneliness-during-covid-19-restrictions-in-the-united-states-and-their-associations-with-frequency-of-social-and-sexual-connections\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[18],"class_list":["post-7045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-mental-health-and-personal-impact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7045","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7046,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7045\/revisions\/7046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7045"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}