SAGE warned the Government that surveys have found large proportions of black and Asian people in the UK say they would be likely to turn down a Covid vaccine if offered one.
Study: Mental health of minorities especially affected during pandemic
The results of a UK mental health survey conducted before and after the start of the pandemic found that British minorities were more impacted by the pandemic, but all citizens reported an increase in mental distress, according to a study yesterday in
PLOS One.
The study was based on answers to the UK Household Longitudinal Study, and authors compared responses from participants between 2017 and 2019 to responses from the same participants in April 2020, during the first lockdown in the United Kingdom. Participants were asked to rate their mental distress on a scale from 0 to 36.
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Credit: Proto E, Quintana-Domeque C (2021) PLOS ONE
In the UK, men from ethnic minorities and women may have experienced worse mental health declines than White British men, according to a study published January 6, 2021 in the open access journal
PLOS ONE by Eugenio Proto and Climent Quintana-Domeque of institutions including the University of Glasgow and the University of Exeter, UK.
The COVID-19 pandemic, and the measures enacted to restrict the spread of the virus, have had a major impact on the lives of citizens globally. The authors of the present study examined changes in mental health associated with the pandemic across ethnic groups in the UK.
Men from ethnic minorities ‘had greater mental health declines during pandemic’
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Men from ethnic minority groups may have experienced worse mental health declines than white men in the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic, research suggests.
Scientists say there is some evidence that Bangladeshi, Indian and Pakistani men may have experienced the highest average increase in mental distress when compared to white British men.
Women, regardless of their ethnicity, were also found to experience a greater average increase in mental distress than men.
The findings, published in the journal Plos One, are based on a survey of more than 14,000 people from before and during the pandemic.
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