Factors Associated With Self-reported Symptoms of Depression Among Adults With and Without a Previous COVID-19 Diagnosis

JAMA Netw Open. 2021 Jun 1;4(6):e2116612. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.16612.

Roy H Perlis^{1

2}, Mauricio Santillana^{3

4

5}, Katherine Ognyanova⁶, Jon Green⁷, James Druckman⁸, David Lazer⁷, Matthew A Baum⁹

¹ Departmentof Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
² Departmentof Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ Computational Health Informatics Program, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁴ Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁵ Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁶ Departmentof Communications, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
⁷ Network Science Institute, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁸ Departmentof Political Science and Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
⁹ Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Abstract

This survey study compares features of self-reported symptoms of major depression in adults with or without a prior COVID-19 diagnosis.