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Mental Health and the COVID-19 Pandemic Evidence from Antidepressant Prescriptions in General Practices in England

2022-05-12

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We use data of antidepressants prescribed by general practices to investigate the impact of COVID-19 on mental health in England. The challenge we face is to estimate such effect separately from the simultaneous reduction in access to general practice health services caused by the pandemic. For this, we construct a counterfactual group using prescription data of other drug classes whose incidence was not directly...

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Literature Corpus work: baecec12-b238-59ff-a32d-a90fab67a84d
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4105079

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