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Prevalence and Predictors of General Psychiatric Disorders and Loneliness during COVID-19 in the United Kingdom: Results from the Understanding Society UKHLS

2020-06-12 psychiatry and clinical psychology Title + abstract only
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Despite ample research on the prevalence of specific psychiatric disorders during COVID-19, we know little about how the pandemic affects the general wellbeing of a wider population. The study investigates the prevalence and predictors of general psychiatric disorders measured by the 12-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) and frequency of loneliness during COVID-19 in the United Kingdom, a country heavily hit by the pandemic. We analyzed 15,530 respondents of the first large-scale, nation...

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