Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Mental Health among 157,213 Americans.

Julia S Yarrington¹, Jana Lasser², David Garcia², Jose Hamilton Vargas³, Diego Dotta Couto³, Thiago Marafon³, Michelle G Craske¹, Andrea N Niles⁴

¹Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, USA.

²Section for Science of Complex Systems, Center for Medical Statistics, Informatics and Intelligent Systems, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; Institute of Interactive Systems and Data Science, Faculty of Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria; Complexity Science Hub Vienna, Vienna, Austria.

³Youper, Inc., San Francisco, USA.

⁴Youper, Inc., San Francisco, USA. Electronic address: andrea@youper.ai.

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic presents an unprecedented crisis with potential negative mental health impacts. METHODS: This study used data collected via Youper, a mental health app, from February through July 2020. Youper users (N = 157,213) in the United States self-reported positive and negative emotions and anxiety and depression symptoms during the pandemic. We examined emo…

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