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Women are suffering more than men with poorer sleep and higher levels of anxiety and depression during months of isolation due to Covid-19, says a new study published in Frontiers in Global Women s Health.
The study by University of Calgary researchers with the Hotchkiss Brain Institute sought to highlight the sex and gender differences during the coronavirus stay-home lifestyle, especially on how isolation impacts on women and men psychologically shaping their behavioural reactions to the pandemic.
Advocating targeted psychological intervention, the study examined data from 573 participants, 112 men and 459 women with a mean age of 25.9 years in Canada. The online survey was conducted between March 23 and June 7 of this year when schools and many businesses were closed, forcing people stay at home due to a general lock down in the country due to Covid-19 s rapid spread.