COVID & Mental Health

This study uses data collected from a large and diverse sample of young adults from Canada and France during the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic to respond to the following objectives: 1) identify sub-groups of young adults with a similar coping pattern using latent class analysis; 2) examine whether these coping sub-groups differ by sociodemographic characteristics; and 3) examine the association of sub-group membership and mental health-related outcomes, controlling for sociodemographic characteristics.

This study examines the prevalence of overlapping pandemic- and climate-related worry and its association with mental health outcomes in a nationally representative sample in Canada. We also present data on the ways in which this worry is disproportionately impacting certain population groups.

Parents with children living at home were early on identified as a population at heightened mental health risk during the COVID-19 pandemic, with concerns about the potential long-term impacts of the pandemic on parents’ mental health, family functioning, and children’s well-being. This study investigates impacts of the pandemic on parents’ psychological distress, contextual sources of distress, and associations with family functioning nearly two years into the pandemic.

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly one in five adults in Canada worried about having enough food to meet their household's needs. This study builds upon data collected in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, confirming that persistently high proportions of adults living in Canada experienced stress or worry about having enough food to meet their household’s basic needs in 2020–2021.