Week 4/4

 Happy Day Stem family,

I have had the opportunity to combine my research assignments into one awesome research project. I have a psychology  research class that had me doing a research project as well so know I can do two for the price of one. The topic still remains around COVID and death(if your into death like I am) but more so about the feeling attached to death. I decided to do research on the correlation of the rise in depression during COVID 19. This still hits many people at home and may even include many of us as well. With the isolation that occurred from the lock down and the rate of morbidity that came from the pandemic, depression rates exceed the norm. This caused a lack in resource and months of waiting to book an appointment just to seek any counseling. The world not only had to deal with the possibility of  dying but also had a strong possibility of being depressed. Obviously, there are more variable than just loved ones passing but at the end COVID effected the physiopathology aspect of many individuals. Below are some results pulled from the article  "Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy": 

The results showed that 27.8% of adults reported depression symptoms, in contrast with 8.5% before the pandemic. Increases were higher across the spectrum of depression severity, from mild (24.6% vs 16.2% before the pandemic) to severe (5.1% vs 0.7%).

Women were more likely to have depression symptoms before and during the pandemic than men (10.1% of women and 6.9% of men before the pandemic, vs 22.2% of women and 21.9% of men during the pandemic).

Asians experienced an 18.7% higher prevalence of depression symptoms during the pandemic than they did before (8 participants [23.1%] vs 26 participants [4.4%]), though this was a small subgroup.

Respondents who were married had an 18.3% rate of depression symptoms, compared with 31.5% in those who were widowed, divorced, or separated; 39.8% in those who never married; and 37.7% in those living with a partner. 

Respondents with lower incomes were 2.4 times more likely than their peers to report depression symptoms, while those with less than $5,000 in savings were 1.5 more likely, and those with higher numbers of stressors were 3.1 times more likely.(Beusekom,2020)

 

Reference:

Beusekom, M. V. (2020, September 03). Depression triples in US adults amid Covid-19 stressors. Retrieved April 08, 2021, from https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/09/depression-triples-us-adults-amid-covid-19-stressors