Healio (12/22, Gramigna) reports, “Anxiety and depression levels during the COVID-19 pandemic reached their peak at its early stages then declined rapidly, likely because people adapted to circumstances,” investigators concluded after assessing “the trajectories of depression and anxiety over the 20 weeks following announcement of widespread lockdowns in England,” analyzing “data of 36,520 participants with three follow-up measures and no missing values who were included in the UCL COVID-19 Social Study. Weekly U.K. data from March 21 on anxiety were available from the Generalized Anxiety Disorder assessment and on depressive symptoms from the Patient Health Questionnaire.” The findings were published online Dec. 9 in The Lancet Psychiatry.
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