Longitudinal evidence over 2 years of the pandemic shows that poor mental health in people living with obesity may be underestimated.

Autor: Vowels MJ; Cognitive and Affective Regulation Laboratory (CARLA), Department of Social and Political Sciences, Institute of Psychology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland., Vowels LM; FAmily and DevelOpment Research Centre (FADO), Department of Social and Political Sciences, Institute of Psychology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland., Gibson-Miller J; School of Education, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: PloS one [PLoS One] 2024 Jul 25; Vol. 19 (7), pp. e0305627. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jul 25 (Print Publication: 2024).
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0305627
Abstrakt: It is well-documented that people living with obesity are at greater risk of poorer mental health outcomes. The aim of our study was twofold: First, to examine the longitudinal trajectories of depression and anxiety in people living with obesity over two years across eight waves of a UK national COVID-19 survey (March 2020-March 2022) using smoothing-splines mixed-effects models. Second, to investigate participation effects via a missingness analysis to check whether survey attrition over time was related to participant characteristics. Trajectory models showed that those living with overweight and obesity consistently reported significantly higher rates of anxiety and depression compared to those in normal weight categories over two years. Our missingness analysis revealed that depression and anxiety predicted the likelihood of responding to the survey over time, whereby those reporting higher rates of depression and anxiety were less likely to respond to the survey. Our findings add to the literature surrounding the (long-term) link between living with obesity and poor mental health. Notably, our results suggest that people who have poorer mental health were less likely to participate in the survey. Thus, we conclude that it is likely that longitudinal population survey studies potentially underreport mental health problems over time and therefore the realistic impact of obesity on mental health outcomes may be underestimated.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
(Copyright: © 2024 Vowels et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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