A team of researchers at the University of Southern California has found evidence to suggest that people who were vaccinated against COVID-19 they experienced less stress afterward and saw resulting improvements in their mental health.
The team has written a document describing their one-year survey effort and what they learned from it and has posted it on the open access site PLOS ONE.
ABOUT THE STUDY against COVID-19:
The researchers were participating in the Understanding America study. A long-term project established at USC to track the impact of the pandemic in the US. In mental health.
The initial part of the project involved sending more than 8,000 surveys to people across the country. This, with questions aimed at measuring how the pandemic was affecting the mental health of people in general.
The Impacts On Your Mental Health After Receiving A COVID-19 Vaccine
Survey data has shown that the majority of those consulted have experienced some degree of anxiety and depression as a result of the pandemic.
The team has continued to send surveys to the same people every two weeks as a way to measure changes in mental health as the pandemic continues. In this latest survey, respondents were asked about the impacts on their mental health after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine.
A 15% decrease in the chance of feeling very depressed
The researchers found that those surveyed in the study experienced a 15% decrease in the likelihood of feeling very depressed after being vaccinated. Plus a 4% reduction in the likelihood of feeling mildly depressed.
The researchers also estimate that based on their data, 1 million people likely experienced a reduction in mental distress after being vaccinated.
Getting vaccinated does more than protect people from infection
The researchers further suggest that their data indicates that getting vaccinated against COVID-19 does more than protect people from infection. In the same way, it greatly reduces the fear and anxiety that people feel about the probability of becoming infected.
On the other hand, they suggest there could be more to the story, noting that they did not ask respondents about reducing stress in anxiety because their loved ones received vaccinations.
Finally they point out that the project in general is still ongoing; More surveys will be sent out to determine how people feel about the possibility of variant infection and how they might feel after receiving booster injections.
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