Despite a number of strengths, our findings must be considered in light of several potential limitations. First, the study’s cross-sectional design only provides information at one moment in time. The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on relapse risk and recovery stability may vary over time, particularly as local pandemic conditions changed. Second, the study’s measures may have constrained some insights. In our quest to minimize respondent burden, we limited the number of additional items added to the study’s original questionnaire. We may have omitted salient variables, such as local pandemic restrictions, mental health comorbidities, or coping style. Similarly, some of the COVID-19-related items were original questions. The lack of standardized variables may diminish comparability of our findings with other studies. Third, the large confidence intervals around some odds ratios for women suggest that these estimates should be interpreted with caution. They are likely the result of the relatively infrequent outcome and smaller proportion of women than men in the sample. This same limitation has implications for the power to detect other important correlates. Given the small number of relapse events,
