Mental health: set up long-term cohort studies
Abstract
The world missed an opportunity to test the effects of nature deprivation on mental health during COVID-19 lockdowns, because pre-lockdown control data were unavailable. To restore mental health at population scale in the face of future social disruptions (see Nature 593, 331–333; 2021), reliable evidence is needed from large-scale, long-term, repeated, representative population samples (called ‘panels’ or ‘cohorts’). These must include social-science parameters such as access to nature and activities, as well as addressing health and household economics.The world missed an opportunity to test the effects of nature deprivation on mental health during COVID-19 lockdowns, because pre-lockdown control data were unavailable. To restore mental health at population scale in the face of future social disruptions (see Nature 593, 331–333; 2021), reliable evidence is needed from large-scale, long-term, repeated, representative population samples (called ‘panels’ or ‘cohorts’). These must include social-science parameters such as access to nature and activities, as well as addressing health and household economics.
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Journal Title
Nature
Volume
595
Issue
7867
Subject
Sociology
Psychology
Science & Technology
Multidisciplinary Sciences
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