Differential effects of COVID-19 and containment measures on mental health: Evidence from ITA.LI—Italian Lives, the Italian household panel

Mario Lucchini, Tiziano Gerosa, Marta Pancheva, Maurizio Pisati, Chiara Respi and Egidio Riva

PLOS ONE, 2021, vol. 16, issue 11, 1-13

Abstract: This study used a subsample of a household panel study in Italy to track changes in mental health before the onset of COVID-19 and into the first lockdown period, from late April to early September 2020. The results of the random-effects regression analyses fitted on a sample of respondents aged 16 years and older (N = 897) proved that there was a substantial and statistically significant short-term deterioration in mental health (from 78,5 to 67,9; β = -10.5, p

Date: 2021
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