COVID-19 in Brazil: Are there any differences in Mental Health Literacy between young and aged men?
Wanderson Carneiro Moreira, Anderson Reis de Sousa, Rachel da Silva Serejo Cardoso and 3 others
PMID 35858006WHAT IT FOUND
During the pandemic, 87 men in Brazil described mental health literacy.
Aged men focused on recognizing distress, seeking help and self-care; younger men described less attention to managing mental health.
Key findings
01The men's accounts showed different mental health literacy levels by age group.
02Young men described anxiety, panic, medication use, contacting friends, psychologists and physical activity.
03Aged men described seeking knowledge, internet services, meditation, art, self-knowledge and official health information.
STILL TO COME
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What it does not show
Participants were recruited through social networks and snowball sampling, so they may not represent men across Brazil. The survey was online and self-completed, so men who could not read did not participate. The sample was concentrated in the Northeast and Southeast regions, so men from other regions may be underrepresented. The young men were 25 to 33 years old and the aged men were 63 to 72 years old, narrower than the intended age groups. The findings are researchers' grouping of what men said, not measured outcomes or tested effects.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read the higher mental health literacy in aged men as proof that age protects mental health or that nurses can raise it. This was a self-reported online sample of men, not an intervention study.