Health Studies User Conference: Mental health, and COVID-19 and Mental Health sessions
Channel: UK DATA SERVICE
Date: 10/08/2022

The annual Health Studies User Conference is a one-day conference organised by the UK Data Service in collaboration with UCL and the National Centre for Social Research.

The mental health session papers were:

Multimorbidity and mental health for people who have experienced homelessness: Analysis of the 2007 and 2014 Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Surveys, Natasha Chilman, Peter Schofield, Sally McManus, and Jayati
Das-Munshi, King’s College London

Exploring the longitudinal impact of social media on adolescent mental health: Findings from the UK Longitudinal Household Study, Ruth Plackett, Jen Dykxhoorn, and Jessica Sheringham, UCL

An intersectional analysis of inequalities in young people’s mental health within the higher education context, Kieran Balloo, University of Southern Queensland and University of Surrey, Anesa Hosein, University of Surrey, Nicola Byrom, King’s College London, and Cecilia A. Essau, University of Roehampton

The association of common mental disorders and oral health outcomes in a representative older adult population aged 50 and over, Afshan Mirza, UCL

The COVID-19 and mental health session papers were:

Housing, financial conditions and mental health during a pandemic, Marco Felici, University of Cambridge

Is caring for others good for our mental health? Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK, Chiara Costi and Bruce Hollingsworth, Lancaster
University, Vincent O’Sullivan, University of Limerick, and Eugenio Zucchelli, Lancaster University and Madrid Institute for Advanced Study

Key worker health status pre- and during the COVID19 pandemic: an explorative analysis using the EQ-5D-5L, Gemma E Shields, Aleix Rowlandson, Filippo Varese, and Linda Davies, University of Manchester, Paul French, Manchester Metropolitan University, and Kate Allsopp, Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

COVID-19 lockdown, (un)employment and mental health: Evidence from UK, Srinjoy Sen, Subhasish Dey, and Atisha Ghosh, University of Warwick