Mental health of people in Australia in the first month of COVID-19 restrictions: a national survey.
Objectives: To estimate the population prevalence of clinically significant symptoms of depression, generalised anxiety, thoughts of being better off dead, irritability, and high optimism about the future, and of direct experience of COVID-19, loss of employment caused by COVID-19 restrictions, worr...
| Publicado en: | Medical Journal of Australia Vol. 213; no. 10; pp. 458 - 465 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Nov2020
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