COVID affected mental health of parents, caregivers: CDC

"These findings highlight that parents and caregivers, especially those balancing roles both as parents and caregivers, experienced higher levels of adverse mental health symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic than adults without these responsibilities," the authors were quoted as saying.

Washington: Parents and caregivers in the US reported mental health issues more often than others during the COVID pandemic, according to a study by US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The study showed that about 70 percent of parents and adult caregivers -- such as those tending to older people, for example -- and about 85 percent of people who were both, reported adverse mental health symptoms during the pandemic, versus about a third of people who did not hold those responsibilities, the New York Times reported. The study also found that people who were both parent and caregivers were eight times more likely to have seriously considered suicide than people who held neither role.