Mental health before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal probability sample survey of the UK population.
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...Compared with pre-lockdown, the prevalence of mental health problems was significantly higher in late April 2020 (approximately 1 month into lockdown) and this was particularly pronounced among females and younger age groups (Pierce et al., 2020a)....
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...It is crucial that longitudinal research draw on probabilitybased samples drawn from across the population where the response rate is known and factors determining non-response can be accounted for (Pierce et al., 2020a, 2020b)....
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...…commercial panel surveys rather than existing probability-based longitudinal samples that better represent the general population (Twenge & Joiner, 2020), and employing short periods of follow-up to identify immediate rather than medium-term effects (Huckins et al., 2020; Pierce et al., 2020a)....
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...…in the UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS), in which the same nationally representative sample of UK adults completed a mental health screening instrument in 2017–2019 and after the introduction of the UK government social lockdown orders on 23 March 2020 (Pierce et al., 2020a, 2020b)....
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