How sex impacted associations between psychological distress and worry on adults’ health behaviours during SARS-CoV-2

Alysha L. Deslippe; Kim L. Lavoie; Simon L. Bacon; Tamara R. Cohen; on behalf of the iCare Platform

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0339274

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How sex impacted associations between psychological distress and worry on adults’ health behaviours during SARS-CoV-2

Alysha L. Deslippe,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Faculty of Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute, Healthy Starts, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5941-3307

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Kim L. Lavoie,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, Québec, Canada, Montreal Behavioural Medicine Centre, CIUSSS-NIM – Hopital du Sacre-Coeur de Montreal, Montreal, Québec, Canada
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Simon L. Bacon,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Montreal Behavioural Medicine Centre, CIUSSS-NIM – Hopital du Sacre-Coeur de Montreal, Montreal, Québec, Canada, Health, Kinesiology and Applied Physiology, Concordia University, Montreal, Québec, Canada
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Tamara R. Cohen ,

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: tamara.cohen@ubc.ca

Affiliations Faculty of Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute, Healthy Starts, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9773-9965

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on behalf of the iCare Platform

Affiliation Montreal Behavioural Medicine Centre, CIUSSS-NIM – Hopital du Sacre-Coeur de Montreal, Montreal, Québec, Canada
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How sex impacted associations between psychological distress and worry on adults’ health behaviours during SARS-CoV-2

Alysha L. Deslippe,
Kim L. Lavoie,
Simon L. Bacon,
Tamara R. Cohen,
on behalf of the iCare Platform

Published: December 29, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0339274

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