Healio (6/22, Herpen) reports, “Prevalence of clinically significant anxiety and depression among adults in the United States increased during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic compared with prior years,” researchers concluded after examining data “from the CDC’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System…a state-based monthly telephone survey in which 1,429,354 adults responded (1,093,663 from 2017 to 2019; 335,691 from March to December 2020).” The findingswere published online June 15 in JAMA Network Open.
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— “Prevalence of anxiety, depression in U.S. adults elevated in first year of pandemic ” Robert Herpen, Healio, June 22, 2022