Lockdowns Found to Double Risk of Mental Health Symptoms: Study

Lockdowns Found to Double Risk of Mental Health Symptoms: Study
A child's hands on a barrier at an area under lockdown amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Shanghai, China on March 26, 2022. Aly Song/Reuters
Jessie Zhang
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A group of researchers have conducted an overview of 33 mental health studies of 132,000 people during the first year of the pandemic and found that lockdowns doubled people’s odds of experiencing mental health symptoms.

Many studies on mental health have been undertaken but the speed with which they were conducted meant that the research was “generally of poor quality” and produced very mixed findings, the authors said.

Jessie Zhang
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Jessie Zhang is a reporter based in Sydney, Australia, covering news on health and science.
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