'Significant increase' in PTSD during Covid-19 pandemic

Men aged 18-34 and those living in Leinster were worst affected by the increased level of PTSD, according to the new study. Stock Image.

There was a “significant increase” in PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) across the population over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic last year, with the rise most acute in younger males.

The findings are in a new report called Changes in PTSD, depression, and generalized anxiety before and during the Covid-19 pandemic in Ireland, which was written by a team of researchers from the Department of Psychology at Maynooth University, the HSE, the School of Medicine at Trinity College Dublin, the Trinity Centre for Global Health, and the School of Psychology at Ulster University.