Data from our UK Household Longitudinal Study, Understanding Society, collected before and during the Covid-19 crisis, reveal that British BAME men have suffered a signficant and disproportionate deterioration to their mental health since the start of the pandemic in March 2020.
Researchers from the Universities of Exeter and Glasgow used Understanding Society data from over 14,000 individuals to track the changes to their mental health. They found that BAME men reported a deterioration of about 14% in their mental health from 2017-2019 to April 2020, but for white British males the deterioration was smaller at about 6.5%.
The study published here in the journal PLOS One
Read coverage of this research in The Guardian