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Associations of Small Business Closure and Reduced Urban Mobility with Mental Health Problems in COVID-19 Pandemic: a National Representative Sample Study
Authors:JungHo Park  Byoungjun Kim
Institution:1.Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA USA ;2.Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY USA
Abstract:It is suggested that the nationwide social distancing due to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has adverse mental health consequences despite its necessity. We investigated the associations of social distancing measures with mental health problems. Using national representative sample of 509,062 adults in the USA, we examined the associations of small business closure and reduced urban mobility with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and major depression disorder (MDD). Multilevel regression models were fitted with individual, household, and state-level covariates, in addition to state and census-region-level random effects. Living in state with the highest quartile of small business closures was associated with increased prevalence of GAD (OR: 1.06; CI: 1.03–1.11) compared to lowest quartile, but had no association with MDD. Living in the highest quartile of urban mobility was associated with lower prevalence of both GAD (OR: 0.88; CI: 0.85–0.93) and MDD (OR: 0.90; CI: 0.86–0.95) relative to the lowest quartile. Our findings suggest that small business closures and reduced mobility during COVID-19 pandemic were negatively associated with the two mental health outcomes in the USA, despite their important roles in preventing the infection.Supplementary InformationThe online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11524-020-00511-0.
Keywords:COVID-19 pandemic  Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)  Major depression disorder (MDD)  Small business closure  Urban mobility
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