Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic and its social and economic consequences have had adverse impacts on physical and mental health worldwide and exposed all segments of the population to protracted uncertainty and daily disruptions. The CoRonavIruS health and Impact Survey (CRISIS) was developed for use as an easy to implement and robust questionnaire covering key domains relevant to mental distress and resilience during the pandemic. Ongoing studies using CRISIS include international studies of COVID-related ill health conducted during different phases of the pandemic and follow-up studies of cohorts characterized before the COVID pandemic. In the current work, we demonstrate the feasibility, psychometric structure, and construct validity of this survey. We then show that pre-existing mood states, perceived COVID risk, and lifestyle changes are strongly associated with negative mood states during the pandemic in population samples of adults and in parents reporting on their children in the US and UK. These findings are highly reproducible and we find a high degree of consistency in the power of these factors to predict mental health during the pandemic.

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Title
The Coronavirus Health and Impact Survey (CRISIS) reveals reproducible correlates of pandemic-related mood states across the Atlantic
Author
Nikolaidis Aki 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Paksarian Diana 2 ; Lindsay, Alexander 1 ; Derosa, Jacob 1 ; Dunn, Julia 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Nielson, Dylan M 3   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Droney Irene 1 ; Kang Minji 1 ; Douka Ioanna 3 ; Bromet Evelyn 4 ; Milham, Michael 5   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Stringaris Argyris 3 ; Merikangas, Kathleen R 6 

 The Child Mind Institute, Center for the Developing Brain, New York, USA (GRID:grid.428122.f) (ISNI:0000 0004 7592 9033) 
 National Institute of Mental Health, Genetic Epidemiology Research Branch, Intramural Research Program, Bethesda, USA (GRID:grid.416868.5) (ISNI:0000 0004 0464 0574) 
 National Institutes of Health, Section On Clinical and Computational Psychiatry (CompΨ), National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, USA (GRID:grid.94365.3d) (ISNI:0000 0001 2297 5165) 
 Brook University, Department of Psychiatry, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony, Stony Brook, USA (GRID:grid.36425.36) (ISNI:0000 0001 2216 9681) 
 The Child Mind Institute, Center for the Developing Brain, New York, USA (GRID:grid.428122.f) (ISNI:0000 0004 7592 9033); Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, USA (GRID:grid.250263.0) (ISNI:0000 0001 2189 4777) 
 National Institute of Mental Health, Genetic Epidemiology Research Branch, Intramural Research Program, Bethesda, USA (GRID:grid.416868.5) (ISNI:0000 0004 0464 0574); Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA (GRID:grid.21107.35) (ISNI:0000 0001 2171 9311) 
Publication year
2021
Publication date
2021
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
e-ISSN
20452322
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2512385021
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2021. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.