Study: Olderadults were better equipped to deal with pandemic-related distress wustl
], the circumstances in 2020 were somewhat unusual, coming as they were during what appears to us to have been an ongoing mental health crisis. Indeed, for current purposes, the increasing trend in psychological distress prior to the COVID-19 pandemic is not just noise to be statistically controlled in order to better understand the impact of COVID-19.
As in previous years, the 12-item General Health Questionnaire was used to measure psychological distress in 2020. Data were analyzed here using the actual scores for each participant, coded in the way recommended by the developers of the test, and using the same age groups as with the NSDUH in order to facilitate comparisons of the data from the US and UK. It should be noted, however, that testing for the UKHLS was undertaken online rather than face-to-face.
Despite all these differences, including different samples of participants from three different countries, the data from all waves collected since 2007 or 2008 are well described by quadratic trends, with little or no change up until about 2015, followed by almost linear increases from around 2015 to 2019, the year before the pandemic.
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