Table 2.

Fixed-effects odds ratios (95% CI) of common mental disorder regressed on potential stressors: UKHLS-COVID-19 monthly surveys

	April-May-June	April-May-July
n (observations)	12 166	12 765
n (individuals)	4264	4477
Reported COVID-19 symptoms (ref: none)
At least one	1.59 (1.33–1.89)	1.97 (1.64–2.36)
Reported COVID-19 test (ref: no test)
Tested for COVID-19	0.93 (0.74–1.17)	0.74 (0.60–0.91)
Tested positive	1.60 (0.64–4.02)	1.05 (0.37–2.95)
How often working from home (ref: always)
Often	0.85 (0.65–1.11)	0.76 (0.60–0.97)
Sometimes	0.83 (0.62–1.12)	0.54 (0.41–0.71)
Never	0.69 (0.51–0.94)	0.46 (0.35–0.60)
No paid work hours	1.12 (0.85–1.46)	0.79 (0.62–1.00)
Health treatments (ref: no treatments planned)
Treatments cancelled/postponed	1.17 (0.96–1.41)	1.24 (1.03–1.49)
I cancelled treatments	1.36 (0.95–1.94)	1.50 (1.04–2.16)
Alternative treatment/scheduled	1.32 (1.08–1.61)	1.28 (1.06–1.55)
Employment status (ref: self-employed not affected)
Self-employed: -vely impacted by COVID	1.64 (1.20–2.25)	1.43 (1.03–1.99)
Employee: hrs not affected	0.99 (0.65–1.50)	1.17 (0.77–1.80)
Employee: redundant/unemp/reduced hrs	1.23 (0.75–2.04)	2.08 (1.25–3.48)
Employee: furloughed	1.12 (0.72–1.75)	1.50 (0.95–2.38)
Self-isolating/caring	1.27 (0.85–1.91)	1.67 (1.09–2.54)
Not in work Jan/Feb	1.19 (0.74–1.90)	1.75 (1.08–2.86)
How often feel lonely (ref: hardly/never)
Some of the time	3.13 (2.78–3.53)	3.10 (2.76–3.49)
Often	11.05 (8.51–14.34)	15.97 (12.1–21.01)
Hrs/week on childcare/home school (ref: no child or <18/0 h)
1–15 h/week	1.21 (0.93–1.58)
16 h or more/week	1.37 (1.02–1.86)
Problems paying bills (ref: no problems)
Behind with some bills		1.35 (0.98–1.86)
Behind with all bills		2.25 (0.53–9.64)
Subjective financial situation (ref: living comfortably)
Doing alright		0.98 (0.85–1.14)
Just about getting by		1.42 (1.14–1.77)
Finding it quite/very difficult		2.37 (1.68–3.34)
Future expectation finances (ref: better off)
Worse off than now		1.55 (1.26–1.90)
Or about the same?		0.83 (0.7–0.98)

Bold figures denote p < 0.05.