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Mental Health and COVID-19

COVID-19 and Mental Health Research

Introduction

Members of the COVID-19 Mental Health Measurement Working Group are working to ensure that measurement of mental health measures is a key part of large-scale national and international data collections relative to COVID-19 and then conducting research studies on mental health during the pandemic. 



Datasets that we have access to or experience with, or are collaborating with: 

Pew Research Center American Trends Survey
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Understanding America Study
Texas Mental Health Survey
  • About the survey: An interdisciplinary collaboration between faculty at Bloomberg School of Public Health and  surveyd a statewide random sample of Texas residents (N=1197), with follow-ups planned. Measures include items on beliefs about COVID-19, preventive behaviors and social distancing, mental distress, employment changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic, substance use, partner violence, and gun ownership. 

  • Data available upon request

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Carnegie Mellon/Facebook US COVID symptom survey
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University of Maryland/Facebook international COVID symptom survey
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COVID impact survey

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Research Publications

Kira E Riehm, MSc, Calliope Holingue, PhD, Emily J Smail, BSc, Arie Kapteyn, PhD, Daniel Bennett, PhD, Johannes Thrul, PhD, Frauke Kreuter, PhD, Emma E McGinty, PhD, Luther G Kalb, PhD, Cindy B Veldhuis, PhD, Renee M Johnson, PhD, M Daniele Fallin, PhD, Elizabeth A Stuart, PhD, Trajectories of Mental Distress Among U.S. Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 2021;, kaaa126, 

Riehm, K.E., Brenneke, S.G., Adams, L.B., Gilan, D., Lieb, K., Kunzler, A.M., Smail, E.J., Holingue, C., Stuart, E.A., Kalb, L.G. and Thrul, J., 2021. Association between psychological resilience and changes in mental distress during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Affective Disorders282, pp.381-385.

Holingue, C., Kalb, L.G., Riehm, K.E., Bennett, D., Kapteyn, A., Veldhuis, C.B., Johnson, R.M., Fallin, M.D., Kreuter, R., Stuart, E.A., and Thrul, J. (2020)  Mental Distress in the United States at the beginning of the COVID-19 Pandemic.     American Journal of Public Health. DOI 

 Liu, Y., Finch, B.K., Brenneke, S.G., Thomas, K., and  Le, PT.D. (2020) . 2020 Oct;59(4):481-492. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2020.06.007. Epub 2020 Jul 6.

Holingue, C., Badillo-Goicoechea, E., **Riehm, K.E., Veldhuis, C., Thrul, J., Johnson, R.M., Fallin, D.M., Kreuter, F., Stuart, E.A., and Kalb, L.G. (2020). Mental Distress during the COVID-19 Pandemic among US Adults without a Pre-existing Mental Health Condition: Findings from American Trend Panel Survey. Forthcoming in Preventive Medicine. Available online 3 August 2020. .

Riehm, K.E.., Holingue, C., Kalb, L.G., Bennett, D., Kapteyn, A., Jiang, Q., Veldhuis,C., Johnson, R.M., Fallin, M.D., Kreuter, F., Stuart, E.A., and Thrul, J. (2020).  American Journal of Preventive Medicine. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2020.06.008.

Kreuter, F., Barkay, N., Bilinski, A., Bradford, A., Chiu, S., Eliat, R., Fan, J., Galili, T., Haimovich, D., Kim, B., LaRocca, S., Li, Y., Morris, K., Presser, S., Sarig, T., Salomon, J.A., Stewart, K., Stuart, E.A., and Tibshirani, R. (2020).  14(2) : Survey Research Methods during the COVID-19 crisis : 159-163.

McGinty, E.E., Presskreischer, R., Han, H., and Barry, C.L. (2020). . Journal of the American Medical Association. Published online June 3, 2020.