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.