{"id":7641,"date":"2020-06-18T15:51:25","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T22:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7641"},"modified":"2021-03-25T15:52:06","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T22:52:06","slug":"risk-of-depression-in-family-caregivers-unintended-consequence-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/18\/risk-of-depression-in-family-caregivers-unintended-consequence-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Risk of Depression in Family Caregivers Unintended Consequence of COVID-19"},"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[pre-print, not peer reviewed]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\">\u00a0Gallagher and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Wetherell<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">found\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">that family caregivers<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">had<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0a higher risk of<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0depression than non-<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">caregivers<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0in an analysis<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">u<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">sing data from a longitudinal UK\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">population<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&#8211;<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">level dataset\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">collected before and during the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">COVID-19\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">pandemic<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Depression was higher among caregivers both before (17% vs 12%) and during the pandemic (22% vs 18%). Among caregivers, l<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">oneliness\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">measured on a 3-point scale<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">) was associated\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">with a nearly 4-fold higher odds<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">depression.<\/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\">Gallagher and\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Wetherell<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">. (June 17, 2020). Risk of Depression in Family Caregivers Unintended Consequence of COVID-19.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Pre-print downloaded June 18 from<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.06.15.20131532\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.06.15.20131532<\/span><\/a><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&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]\u00a0Gallagher and\u00a0Wetherell\u00a0found\u00a0that family caregivers\u00a0had\u00a0a higher risk of\u00a0depression than non-caregivers\u00a0in an analysis\u00a0using data from a longitudinal UK\u00a0population&#8211;level dataset\u00a0collected before and during the\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0pandemic.\u00a0Depression was higher among caregivers both before (17% vs 12%) and during the pandemic (22% vs 18%). Among caregivers, loneliness\u00a0(measured on a 3-point scale) was associated\u00a0with a nearly 4-fold higher odds\u00a0of\u00a0depression.\u00a0 Gallagher&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/18\/risk-of-depression-in-family-caregivers-unintended-consequence-of-covid-19\/\">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-7641","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\/7641","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=7641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7642,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7641\/revisions\/7642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7641"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}