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Covid-19 and Mental Health
This series on Covid-19 and mental health publishes five research articles and their related discussant comments, reporting on the data from the ‘UCL-Penn Global COVID Study, Lessons from Covid-19: Reflections, Resilience and Recovery’.
Covid-19, mental health, and the environment in which we live
People’s wellbeing is intimately linked to their environment including the place in which they live. This series builds towards examining some of the linkages that have been exposed during the Covid-19 pandemic and some of these findings will likely read across to the journals broader collection on Covid-19 interactions with our environment (https://journals.uclpress.co.uk/ucloe/collections/450).
The UCL-Penn Global COVID Study launched in April 2020 and is a 12-month longitudinal study of the impact of Covid-19 on social trust, mental health and physical health. In collaboration with six institutions from Italy, Singapore, USA, China and the UK, the study looks at the short- and long-term effects of Covid-19 on individual’s mental health and social relationships with others.
Additionally, held online between the 2nd June and 28th July 2021, the study group then ran five online webinars (one for each of the research articles, see below publication list) discussing the lessons learned and to speak on the policy relevance and implications of the study, with invited policy makers and other subject experts. The recorded comments from these discussions focusing on the policy relevance and implications of each academic article have been published as a ‘Discussant’ article to be read alongside the Research Article.
The UCL-Penn Global COVID Study
The 'Covid-19: Global study of social trust and mental health' study aims to understand how the Covid-19 pandemic affected mental and physical health, and how findings may inform policies and/or assist in future crisis management strategies. Data collection has taken place over past 12 months between April-July 2020 to April-July 2021. The study website can be found online at https://globalcovidstudy.com and study details can be found at https://osf.io/fe8q7.
Description
This study examines the short- and longer-term effects of Covid-19 on people’s mental health, physical health and social trust in others. This study involves three online surveys administered in April 2020, and then 6 months and 12 months from then to participants 18+ years and resident of any country. The survey is available in seven languages and he survey launched online on 17 April 2020.
Research Team
Dr. Keri Ka-Yee Wong (PI), UCL Institute of Education, UCL, UK
Professor Adrian Raine (Co-I), University of Pennsylvania, USA
Dr Gianluca Esposito (Collaborator), University of Trento Italy and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Dr Jill Portnoy (Collaborator), The University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA
Ethics
This project received full ethics approval of the UCL Institute of Education on 8 April 2020 (REC 1331).
All research articles published in this series underwent open peer review in the UCL Open Environment preprint server as per the journals standard peer review process. Decisions to publish are made by the named Handling Editor after peer review – readers are made aware of who the Handling Editor is, found in the comments section of each submitted preprint version. Read more about how peer review works in the journal https://journals.uclpress.co.uk/ucloe/site/how-it-works.
Articles
Editorial
Covid-19 pandemic: our relationships, environment, and health
Keri Ka-Yee Wong
2022-09-16 Covid-19 and Mental Health
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Research article
Reflections, resilience and recovery: a qualitative study of Covid-19’s impact on an international adult population’s mental health and priorities for support
Keri Ka-Yee Wong, Kimberly Loke and Kyleigh Marie Kai-Li Melville
2022-12-01 Volume 4 • 2022
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The effects of cumulative stressful educational events on the mental health of doctoral students during the Covid-19 pandemic
Vassilis Sideropoulos, Emily Midouhas, Theodora Kokosi, Jana Brinkert, Keri Ka-Yee Wong and Maria A. Kambouri
2022-11-08 Volume 4 • 2022
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Self-perceived loneliness and depression during the Covid-19 pandemic: a two-wave replication study
Alessandro Carollo, Andrea Bizzego, Giulio Gabrieli, Keri Ka-Yee Wong, Adrian Raine and Gianluca Esposito
2022-11-03 Volume 4 • 2022
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A three-timepoint network analysis of Covid-19’s impact on schizotypal traits, paranoia and mental health through loneliness
Keri Ka-Yee Wong, Yi Wang, Gianluca Esposito and Adrian Raine
2022-11-01 Volume 4 • 2022
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Child externalising and internalising behaviour and parental wellbeing during the Covid-19 pandemic
Jill Portnoy, AnaCristina Bedoya and Keri Ka-Yee Wong
2022-09-16 Volume 4 • 2022
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Discussion
Invited discussant comments during the UCL–Penn Global COVID Study webinar ‘Reflections, Resilience, and Recovery: A qualitative study of Covid-19’s impact on an international adult population’s mental health and priorities for support’: part 1 of 3
Nigel Atter
2022-12-01 Volume 4 • 2022
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Invited discussant comments during the UCL–Penn Global COVID Study webinar ‘Reflections, Resilience, and Recovery: A qualitative study of Covid-19’s impact on an international adult population’s mental health and priorities for support’: part 2 of 3
Morgan Vine
2022-12-01 Volume 4 • 2022
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Invited discussant comments during the UCL–Penn Global COVID Study webinar ‘Reflections, Resilience, and Recovery: A qualitative study of Covid-19’s impact on an international adult population’s mental health and priorities for support’: part 3 of 3
David Murphy
2022-12-01 Volume 4 • 2022
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Invited discussant comments during the UCL–Penn Global COVID Study webinar ‘Doctoral Students’ Educational Stress and Mental Health’
Tara Béteille
2022-12-15 Volume 4 • 2022
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Invited discussant comments during the UCL-Penn Global COVID Study webinar ‘Alone Together: Loneliness Research and Social Health Innovation in Lockdown and Beyond’
Kasley Killam
2022-11-03 Volume 4 • 2022
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Invited discussant comments during the UCL–Penn Global COVID Study webinar ‘How Do We Trust (Again): Paranoia and Mental Health’: part 1 of 2
Emma Barkus
2022-11-01 Volume 4 • 2022
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Invited discussant comments during the UCL–Penn Global COVID Study webinar ‘How Do We Trust (Again): Paranoia and Mental Health’: part 2 of 2
Mitch Cooke
2022-11-01 Volume 4 • 2022
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