{"id":7492,"date":"2020-06-11T14:28:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T21:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7492"},"modified":"2021-03-25T14:29:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T21:29:09","slug":"association-between-sars-cov-2-infection-exposure-risk-and-mental-health-among-a-cohort-of-essential-retail-workers-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/11\/association-between-sars-cov-2-infection-exposure-risk-and-mental-health-among-a-cohort-of-essential-retail-workers-in-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Association between SARS-CoV-2 Infection Exposure Risk and Mental Health among a Cohort of Essential Retail Workers in the United States"},"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[pre-print, not peer reviewed]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\">A<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0cross-sectional study of 104 workers in a single grocery retail store in Massachusetts\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">showed\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">that employees with direct customer exposure were more likely to test positive for SARS-CoV-2 (OR<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">=<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">4.7<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, 95%CI\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">1.2 to 32.0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">), while smokers were less likely to\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">test\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">positive (<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">OR<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">=<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">0.1<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, 95%CI\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">0.01 to 0.8<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">).\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The ability to social distance consistently at work was a significant protective factor for anxiety\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">OR<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">=<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">0.2<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a095%CI\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">0.1 to 0.7<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">)\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and depression<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0(<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">OR<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">=<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">0.1<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, 95%CI\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">0.01 to 0.6<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. In contrast<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, exposure to a confirmed case within the past 14 days was positively associated with depression<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0(<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">OR=<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">19.1<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">95%CI\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">2.2-339.1)<\/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\">Lan et al. (June 9, 2020). Association between SARS-CoV-2 Infection Exposure Risk and Mental Health among a Cohort of Essential Retail Workers in the United States. Pre-print downloaded June 11 from\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.06.08.20125120\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.06.08.20125120<\/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]\u00a0A\u00a0cross-sectional study of 104 workers in a single grocery retail store in Massachusetts\u00a0showed\u00a0that employees with direct customer exposure were more likely to test positive for SARS-CoV-2 (OR=4.7, 95%CI\u00a01.2 to 32.0), while smokers were less likely to\u00a0test\u00a0positive (OR=0.1, 95%CI\u00a00.01 to 0.8).\u00a0The ability to social distance consistently at work was a significant protective factor&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/11\/association-between-sars-cov-2-infection-exposure-risk-and-mental-health-among-a-cohort-of-essential-retail-workers-in-the-united-states\/\">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-7492","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\/7492","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=7492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7493,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7492\/revisions\/7493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7492"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}