{"id":8420,"date":"2020-07-22T16:28:42","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T23:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8420"},"modified":"2021-04-02T16:29:28","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T23:29:28","slug":"mental-health-before-and-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-a-longitudinal-probability-sample-survey-of-the-uk-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/22\/mental-health-before-and-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-a-longitudinal-probability-sample-survey-of-the-uk-population\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental Health before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Probability Sample Survey of the UK Population"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Pierce et al. conducted a web survey\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">o<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">f<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">17,452 people already participating in a UK national longitudinal study and found that population prevalence of clinically significant levels of mental distress rose from 1<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">9<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">% in 2018-19 to 27% in April 2020, one month into the UK lockdown. Increases in individual scores on the GHQ-12, a questionnaire used to assess mental health, was greatest among young people (age 18-34), women, and people living with young children.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\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<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Pierce et al. (July 2020). Mental Health before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Probability Sample Survey of the UK Population.\u00a0The Lancet\u00a0Psychiatry.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S2215-0366(20)30308-4\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S2215-0366(20)30308-4<\/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>Pierce et al. conducted a web survey\u00a0of\u00a017,452 people already participating in a UK national longitudinal study and found that population prevalence of clinically significant levels of mental distress rose from 19% in 2018-19 to 27% in April 2020, one month into the UK lockdown. Increases in individual scores on the GHQ-12, a questionnaire used to&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/22\/mental-health-before-and-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-a-longitudinal-probability-sample-survey-of-the-uk-population\/\">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-8420","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\/8420","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=8420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8421,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8420\/revisions\/8421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8420"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}