Publication date: Sep 20, 2023
Compare mental health, stress, and well-being in the Swedish population as measured before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Repeated cross-sectional design using data measured before (Jan-2019; n = 2791) and during (Oct/Nov-2020; n = 2926) COVID-19 pandemic in Swedish population-representative cohorts. Following constructs were measured: anxiety (Beck Anxiety Inventory), depression (Beck Depression Inventory-II), stress (Perceived Stress Scale-10 items), health-related quality of life (HRQOL[Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General Population]) and self-rated health (SRH) was assessed with a single-item question. When adjusting for age, sex, education, and income there were significantly higher levels of anxiety (M̂ = 9. 15 vs. 8. 48, p
| Concepts | Keywords |
|---|---|
| Pandemic | COVID-19 |
| Swedish | mental health |
| Therapy | socioeconomic status |
| stress | |
| sweden | |
| well-being |
Semantics
| Type | Source | Name |
|---|---|---|
| disease | MESH | COVID-19 |
| disease | VO | population |
| disease | IDO | quality |
| disease | MESH | Cancer |