{"id":7343,"date":"2020-06-04T13:30:33","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T20:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7343"},"modified":"2021-03-24T13:31:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T20:31:22","slug":"trajectories-of-depression-and-anxiety-during-enforced-isolation-due-to-covid-19-longitudinal-analyses-of-59318-adults-in-the-uk-with-and-without-diagnosed-mental-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/04\/trajectories-of-depression-and-anxiety-during-enforced-isolation-due-to-covid-19-longitudinal-analyses-of-59318-adults-in-the-uk-with-and-without-diagnosed-mental-illness\/","title":{"rendered":"Trajectories of Depression and Anxiety during Enforced Isolation Due to COVID-19 Longitudinal Analyses of 59318 Adults in the UK with and without Diagnosed Mental Illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" 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[pre-print, not peer reviewed]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\">Fancourt et al.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">conducted\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">a nationwide study exploring anxiety and depression over the first two months of lockdown in\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">UK. In total 24% of the population had moderate-severe anxiety<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">GAD-7 score \u226510<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">), and 31% had moderate or severe depressive symptoms (PHQ-9 score \u226510<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">at first wave of data collection<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0There was a slight decrease in anxiety levels and depression levels between weeks 3-6 that then increased again in weeks 7-8.<\/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=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The sustained high levels of anxiety and depression during stay-at-home orders may indicate a need for a response to\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">mental health<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0challenges<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0during the pandemic.<\/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\">Fancourt et al. (June 4, 2020). Trajectories of Depression and Anxiety during Enforced Isolation Due to COVID-19 Longitudinal Analyses of 59318 Adults in the UK with and without Diagnosed Mental Illness. Pre-print downloaded June 4 from<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.06.03.20120923\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.06.03.20120923<\/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]\u00a0Fancourt et al.\u00a0conducted\u00a0a nationwide study exploring anxiety and depression over the first two months of lockdown in\u00a0the\u00a0UK. In total 24% of the population had moderate-severe anxiety\u00a0(GAD-7 score \u226510), and 31% had moderate or severe depressive symptoms (PHQ-9 score \u226510)\u00a0at first wave of data collection.\u00a0There was a slight decrease in anxiety levels and&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/04\/trajectories-of-depression-and-anxiety-during-enforced-isolation-due-to-covid-19-longitudinal-analyses-of-59318-adults-in-the-uk-with-and-without-diagnosed-mental-illness\/\">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-7343","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\/7343","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=7343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7344,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7343\/revisions\/7344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7343"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}