COVID-19 affects disadvantaged families more than others, study shows.

Families on low incomes have reported feeling depressed or anxious at twice the rates of the general community, according to the findings of a study into entrenched disadvantage in WA.

The 100 Families WA COVID-19 report confirmed the pandemic’s economic and social impacts on families participating in this Australian first study. Participants in the quantitative research completed the supplementary COVID-19-specific survey between May-July 2020; the only available report to examine the Coronavirus pandemic on families already in hardship. 

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