Psychological Distress and Loneliness Reported by US Adults in 2018 and April 2020.

By Emma E. Mcginty, R. Presskreischer, Hahrie Han, Colleen L. Barry. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2020

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This study used national survey data to compare the prevalence symptoms of psychological distress and loneliness among US adults during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in April 2020 vs those reported in the National Health Interview Survey in 2018.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Health, Social Psychology

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• Positive psychology in a pandemic: buffering, bolstering, and building mental health (2021, background): “For example, in the United States, 13.6% of people in a large-scale national survey showed symptoms of serious psychological distress compared to 3.9% in 2018 (McGinty et al., 2020).”