In her debut blog, Bryony Porter summarises a systematic review exploring interventions to address mental health issues in healthcare workers during infectious disease outbreaks.
[read the full story...]Dementia care during COVID-19: difficult choices for unpaid carers
In her debut blog, Catherine Talbot reviews a recent qualitative study, which explores the decision-making process for receiving paid home care for people with dementia during COVID-19.
[read the full story...]Will the COVID-19 pandemic lead to a mental health pandemic?
In his debut blog, KCL student George Bougas explores a recent longitudinal study looking at mental health outcomes before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK.
[read the full story...]Loneliness in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic: All the lonely people, where [in Canada] do they all come from?
Heather McClelland reviews a recent study which explores who is most likely to experience loneliness in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic.
[read the full story...]COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: who is hesitant and why? #OxfordMentalHealth
Nikki Nabavi summarises findings from a recent survey, which suggests that COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy is relatively evenly spread across the population, and that willingness to take a vaccine is closely bound to recognition of the collective importance.
[read the full story...]How has the COVID-19 lockdown affected our mental health?
Marco Solmi and Samuele Cortese review a recent longitudinal study exploring the trajectories of anxiety and depression during the COVID-19 lockdown in England.
[read the full story...]Lockdown loneliness: who is lonely before and during the pandemic?
Aggelos Stamos reviews a recent cohort study led by the team behind the UCL COVID-19 Social Study on the predictors of loneliness before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.
[read the full story...]Stay fit in response to COVID: simple recommendations and COH-FIT
Marco Solmi tells us about the importance of physical activity as people in the UK enter a second period of coronavirus lockdown.
He also introduces us to the huge international COH-FIT study, which will help us better understand how the pandemic is affecting people and what can help.
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