Improving women's mental health during a pandemic
Improving women's mental health during a pandemic
This paper evaluates a randomized, over-the-phone counseling intervention aimed at mitigating the mental health impact of COVID-19 on a sample of 2, 402 women across 357 villages in Bangladesh. We find that the provision of two hours of mental support plus information on COVID-19 improves mental health ten months postintervention, leading to reductions of 20 percent in the prevalence of moderate and severe stress and 33 percent in depression. Our results suggest that this type of low-cost intervention ($14 per person) can be effective in providing rapid psychological support to vulnerable groups in times of crises.
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Vlassopoulos, Michael
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Siddique, Abu
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Rahman, Tabassum
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Pakrashi, Debayan
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Islam, Asad
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Ahmed, Firoz
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April 2024
Vlassopoulos, Michael
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Pakrashi, Debayan
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Islam, Asad
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Vlassopoulos, Michael, Siddique, Abu, Rahman, Tabassum, Pakrashi, Debayan, Islam, Asad and Ahmed, Firoz
(2024)
Improving women's mental health during a pandemic.
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 16 (2), .
(doi:10.1257/app.20210655).
Abstract
This paper evaluates a randomized, over-the-phone counseling intervention aimed at mitigating the mental health impact of COVID-19 on a sample of 2, 402 women across 357 villages in Bangladesh. We find that the provision of two hours of mental support plus information on COVID-19 improves mental health ten months postintervention, leading to reductions of 20 percent in the prevalence of moderate and severe stress and 33 percent in depression. Our results suggest that this type of low-cost intervention ($14 per person) can be effective in providing rapid psychological support to vulnerable groups in times of crises.
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Accepted/In Press date: 12 July 2023
Published date: April 2024
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I12, I18, I31, J16, O12, O15
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Local EPrints ID: 481739
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/481739
ISSN: 1945-7782
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Asad Islam
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