Anxiety

Anxiety remains high regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, with more people reporting mental health effects related to it compared with this time last year, according to recent poll results released by the American Psychiatric Association.

Lesbian and gay children whose parents had a consistent perspective on the child’s sexual orientation, even if that perspective was negative, had better outcomes than those whose parents had changing perspectives.

Findings of a meta-analysis showed that one in three women who were hospitalized for obstetric complications during pregnancy had clinical levels of depression or anxiety.

Adolescents whose mothers had anxiety or depressive symptoms were at increased risk for conduct disorder and oppositional defiant disorder symptoms at age 17 years, according to study results published in Journal of Psychiatric Research.

Unmet mental health care need among adults has increased since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to study results published in MMWR.

Healio Psychiatry has compiled a list of its five most-viewed stories in March.

Rates of maternal depression and anxiety have increased during the COVID-19 pandemic compared with prior estimates, according to results of a longitudinal analysis conducted in Canada and published in The Lancet Psychiatry.

Female health care workers had higher rates of mental health problems during the COVID-19 pandemic than male health care workers, according to study results published in Journal of Psychiatric Research.

Anxiety and depression symptoms reduce the likelihood of achieving sustained minimal disease activity in psoriatic arthritis, according to data published in Arthritis Care & Research.

Patients with COPD who completed an 8-week pulmonary rehabilitation program had sustained improvements in anxiety and quality of life at 2-year follow-up, according to findings published in Chest.