Report: COVID-19’s toll on mental health

Reports of anxiety and depression among Americans increased in 2020 to levels more than six times higher than the year before, according to new research by Lynch School Professor Rebekah Levine Coley and Morrissey College Professor Kit Baum. They shared their findings on how mental health challenges and access to mental health services have shifted through the past year in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. The article, “Trends in Mental Health Symptoms, Service Use, and Unmet Need for Services among U.S. Adults through the First 9 Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic,” was in the April issue of Translational Behavioral Medicine and the findings were featured in the Boston Globe. Learn more in BC News.  Read the Boston Globe article.  Read the article.