States' COVID-19 Mitigation Policies and Psychological Health, Drug Overdose, and Suicide Among United States Adults, 2018-2021 (ICPSR 39348)
Version Date: May 29, 2025 View help for published
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Shannon M. Monnat, Syracuse University;
Jennifer Karas Montez, Syracuse University
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR39348.v1
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This study's objective is to assess how state-level COVID-19 mitigation policies have affected psychological health and related mortality from drug overdose and suicide among working age and older adults. Research to date has investigated how state-level COVID-19 policies in the United States--specifically those limiting in-person activities (e.g., stay-at-home orders, school closures) and those providing economic support (e.g., direct cash payments, eviction moratoria)--were associated with drug overdose mortality rates among U.S. working-age adults (25-64 years) during 2020 (Wolf et al., 2024). Research has also identified shifts in the predictive importance of key contextual variables--including socioeconomic conditions, racial-ethnic composition, population health profiles, and physician supply--for all-cause mortality, drug poisoning, and COVID-19-related deaths (Montez et al., 2024).
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Counties in the United States. (For DS1, counties in Alaska, Hawaii, and Connecticut are excluded.)
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For DS2, mortality data are derived from county-level multiple cause of death files from the National Vital Statistics System. County-level contextual variables were obtained from the County Health Rankings and Roadmaps data from 2020 and 2021. States' COVID-19 policy indices came from the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker.
For DS1, data are derived from county-level multiple cause of death files from the National Vital Statistics System and the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker.
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