Psychological distress during the pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic is a recent and ongoing world-wide sanitary crisis, however we already have access to data on its mental health impacts on people in Quebec, in the rest of Canada (Angus Reid Institute, 2020; Blouin-Genest, et al., 2020), and elsewhere in the world (Nelson et al,. 2020; Rajkumar, 2020). These impacts can also be felt by health and social service workers in Quebec (INESSS, 2020). These studies focus mainly on the development of mental health problems related to COVID-19 (e.g., psychological distress, anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress). However, very few studies are currently interested in the levels of positive mental health (i.e., wellbeing) in Quebec during this pandemic.