• Study Calls Mental Health Impact of COVID Pandemic "Minimal" - and Everyone's Confused

    5 days ago - By Pop Sugar

    A new report published in the BMJ is facing backlash after asserting the negative mental health effects of the COVID pandemic were "minimal to small."
    The report - which analyzed 137 studies on mental health and COVID - reviewed existing evidence on how the pandemic impacted general mental health, anxiety, and depression .
    Researchers found that , among general populations, there were no changes in general mental health or anxiety, but that "depression symptoms worsened minimally." For women, however, the report pointed to all three categories as having "worsened by minimal to small...
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