User:BlazeBolt/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic - Wikipedia

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
This article was the only article I could find on Covid-19 mental health that had a good outline but needed some major revisions. There is currently very little research on Covid-19 mental health and it is important to know how certain populations are affected uniquely by the pandemic. My first impressions were that some of the sections were lacking in objectivity and there weren't enough citations in those sections. I liked that there were a lot of sections that I could chose to expand on, it is a fairly large article.

Evaluate the article
Overall, the article is well organized and fairly extensive. Some of the content is not up to date and the article uses external sources. Overall, the article is underdeveloped and many sections needed to be expanded upon. There is only one citation for the paragraph on substance abuse disorders, which makes me wonder where the author got their information from. Under the Causes for Mental Health section, the author writes that it is understandable that people are experiencing fear in the context of Covid-19. This is an opinion that needs to be removed from the article or rephrased. There is quite a bit of research on how well some are adapting to Covid-19, not everyone is suffering and some reporting positive well-being. I think this is important information that needs to be added to the article. The impact on disorders other than anxiety disorders needed to be added. Depression is not an anxiety disorder and needs its own section even though I would agree that there is quite a bit of comorbidity between the 2 disorders. Under the section Lockdown and mental health, the phrase "There are five major stressors during the lockdown..." is misleading and it is possible that there are more. The author needs to cite the study in this case. For example, you could write "According to (author), there are five major stressors during the lockdown"