New research suggests that COVID-19 may increase the risk of mental health concerns, but vaccination appears to reduce this risk.
may increase our risk of depression, anxiety and other mental health concerns, new research suggests. Vaccination appears to reduce the risk of developing these adverse psychiatric side effects, while those who had been hospitalized by the infection saw significantly higher rates of mental illness.'Awareness of the higher incidence of mental illnesses for up to a year following severe
Psychiatry, Walker and colleagues studied three areas of data, with a total of 18,648,606 participants, to explore these associations. The first group of data was collected between January 2020 and June 2021, before widespread vaccine availability, while the second and third groups were collected between June and December 2021, separated into those who were vaccinated and those who were not.
,' Walker said. 'Vaccination likely mitigates the adverse effects of that leads to hospitalization.'As this study was purely associative, it is difficult to pinpoint a specific mechanism for these patterns, and it is too early to say if this correlation is actually indicative of causation. However, Walker said that several potential mechanisms had been suggested.
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