Covid and mental health in America

被引：52

作者：

Blanchflower, David G. ^{[1
,2
,3
]}

Bryson, Alex ^{[4
]}

机构：

[1] Dartmouth Coll, Hanover, NH 03755 USA

[2] Univ Glasgow, Adam Smith Sch Business, Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland

[3] NBER, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

[4] UCL, UCL Social Res Inst, London, England

来源：

PLOS ONE | 2022年 / 17卷 / 07期

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D O I：

10.1371/journal.pone.0269855

中图分类号：

O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

Using 44 sweeps of the US Census Household Pulse Survey data for the period April 2020 to April 22 we track the evolution of the mental health of just over three million Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic. We find anxiety, depression and worry had two major peaks in 2020 but improved in 2021 and 2022. We show that a variable we construct based on daily inflows of COVID cases by county, aggregated up to state, is positively associated with worse mental health, having conditioned on state fixed effects and seasonality in mental health. However, the size of the effect declines in 2021 and 2022 as vaccination rates rise. For women and college educated men having a vaccine improved mental health. However, being vaccinated worsens mental health among less educated men.

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