News Release

Getting the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine resulted in significant improvements in U.S. adults' mental health

Peer-Reviewed Publication

PLOS

Getting the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine resulted in significant improvements in U.S. adults' mental health

image: Mental distress before and after receiving the first dose. Note. PHQ-4 scores are standardized to have a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1. Residuals are taken from a linear regression of standardized PHQ-4 scores against wave dummy variables and an indicator for ever vaccinated. For the ever vaccinated, the residual is plotted against the number of days before or since receiving the first dose. Observations are grouped by wave. Vertical line denotes the date when a vaccination dose was first reported. view more 

Credit: Perez-Arce et al, 2021, PLOS ONE (CC-BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Getting the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine resulted in significant improvements in U.S. adults' mental health.

###

Article Title: COVID-19 vaccines and mental distress

Author Countries: United States of America

Funding: A.K. the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation INV-016365 A.K 5U01AG054580 National Institute on Aging under grant. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.


Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0256406


Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert system.