Religious people coped better with the COVID-19 pandemic, research suggests

Religious people coped better with the COVID-19 pandemic, research suggests People of religious faith may have experienced lower levels of unhappiness and stress than secular people during the UK's COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020 and 2021, according to new University of Cambridge ... Science X Phys.org

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The findings follow a Cambridge-led study suggesting that worsening mental health after experiencing COVID infection—either personally or in those close to you—was also somewhat ameliorated by religious belief. This study, published in the journal European Economic Review looked at the US population during early 2021.

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