COVID-19 government measures and their impact on mental health: a cross-sectional study of older primary care patients in Germany

• Main Authors: Felix G. Wittmann (Author), Andrea Zülke (Author), Alexander Pabst (Author), Melanie Luppa (Author), Jochen René Thyrian (Author), Anika Kästner (Author), Wolfgang Hoffmann (Author), Hanna Kaduszkiewicz (Author), Juliane Döhring (Author), Catharina Escales (Author), Jochen Gensichen (Author), Isabel Zöllinger (Author), Robert Philipp Kosilek (Author), Birgitt Wiese (Author), Anke Oey (Author), Hans-Helmut König (Author), Christian Brettschneider (Author), Thomas Frese (Author), Steffi G. Riedel-Heller (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2023-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BackgroundWith the outbreak of COVID-19, government measures including social distancing and restrictions of social contacts were imposed to slow the spread of the virus. Since older adults are at increased risk of severe disease, they were particularly affected by these restrictions. These may nega...