Years of life lost due to the psychosocial consequences of COVID19 mitigation strategies based on Swiss data

Dominik Andreas Moser; Jennifer Glaus; Sophia Frangou; Daniel Scott Schechter

The following risk factors were considered based on importance and data availability: Suicidality, depression, alcohol use disorder, domestic violence, changes in marital status, social isolation. The projection of YLL for each of these factors is further described below. Data concerning incidence of the risk factors well as their impact on YLL were then applied to a model that assumes populationwide severe social mitigation policies (stay-at-home and restriction of outdoors movement) for a duration of 3 months. As a general rule, the present model aimed at erring on the conservative side when choosing YLL. For purposes of illustration only, we also present projected YLL could be projected to countries other than Switzerland based on their population size (21) assuming similar prevalence of risk factors.