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Preventive medicine · Dec 2021
Self-rated mental health among sexual health service clients during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, British Columbia, Canada.
- Travis Salway, Aidan Ablona, Hsiu-Ju Chang, Sarah Watt, Catherine Worthington, Daniel Grace, Jason Wong, Gina Ogilvie, Troy Grennan, and Mark Gilbert.
- Simon Fraser University, Canada; BC Centre for Disease Control, Canada; Centre for Gender and Sexual Health Equity, Canada. Electronic address: travis_salway@sfu.ca.
- Prev Med. 2021 Dec 1; 153: 106789106789.
AbstractWe investigated self-reported mental health during the first three months of the COVID-19 pandemic (March-May 2020), using a survey of HIV-testing and sexual health service clients from British Columbia, Canada (N = 1198). Over half (55%) reported their mental health as poor at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, more than double that of the general Canadian population in the same time frame (22%). Acknowledging that this burden of poor mental health that is likely to persist in the coming years, we propose that sexual health clinics should facilitate access to mental health supports as a low-barrier point of primary care contact.Copyright © 2021. Published by Elsevier Inc.
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