Who is lonely in lockdown? Cross-cohort analyses of predictors of loneliness before and during the COVID-19 pandemic
Who is lonely in lockdown? Cross-cohort analyses of predictors of loneliness before and during the COVID-19 pandemic
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DOI：
10.1016/j.puhe.2020.06.036
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发表时间：
2020-09-01
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5.2
通讯作者：
Fancourt, D.
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Bu, F.;Steptoe, A.;Fancourt, D.
工作背景：国际社会担心，2019冠状病毒病（COVID-19）大流行期间采取的封锁措施可能导致孤独感上升。由于孤独感被认为是一个主要的公共卫生问题，因此研究考虑当前COVID-19大流行对孤独感的影响以提供必要的支持至关重要。但目前还不清楚，谁是孤独的锁定？研究方法：这项研究比较了COVID-19大流行之前和期间孤独感的社会人口学预测因素，使用了对大流行之前捕获的英国成年人数据的跨队列分析（英国家庭纵向研究，n = 31，064）和大流行期间（UCL（伦敦）COVID-19社会研究，n = 60，341）。结果：孤独的风险因素在大流行之前和期间几乎相同。年轻人、女性、教育程度或收入较低的人、经济不活跃的人、独居的人和城市居民孤独的风险更高。与生活在COVID-19出现之前的人相比，一些已经处于孤独风险中的人（例如18-30岁的年轻人、低家庭收入的人和独居的成年人）在COVID-19大流行期间经历了更高的风险。此外，学生身份在封锁期间成为比平时更高的风险因素。结论：研究结果表明，减少或预防COVID-19期间孤独感的干预措施应针对先前研究中已确定为高风险的社会人口群体。这些群体在大流行期间可能不仅会感到孤独，而且相对于低风险群体，他们感到孤独的风险可能比正常情况下更高。(c)2020年，任作家。由Elsevier Ltd代表皇家公共卫生学会出版。
Background: There are concerns internationally that lockdown measures taken during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic could lead to a rise in loneliness. As loneliness is recognised as a major public health concern, it is therefore vital that research considers the impact of the current COVID-19 pandemic on loneliness to provide necessary support. But it remains unclear, who is lonely in lockdown?Methods: This study compared sociodemographic predictors of loneliness before and during the COVID-19 pandemic using cross-cohort analyses of data from UK adults captured before the pandemic (UK Household Longitudinal Study, n = 31,064) and during the pandemic (UCL (University College London) COVID-19 Social Study, n = 60,341).Results: Risk factors for loneliness were near identical before and during the pandemic. Young adults, women, people with lower education or income, the economically inactive, people living alone and urban residents had a higher risk of being lonely. Some people who were already at risk of being lonely (e.g. young adults aged 18-30 years, people with low household income and adults living alone) experienced a heightened risk during the COVID-19 pandemic compared with people living before COVID-19 emerged. Furthermore, being a student emerged as a higher risk factor during lockdown than usual.Conclusions: Findings suggest that interventions to reduce or prevent loneliness during COVID-19 should be targeted at those sociodemographic groups already identified as high risk in previous research. These groups are likely not just to experience loneliness during the pandemic but potentially to have an even higher risk than normal of experiencing loneliness relative to low-risk groups. (c) 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of The Royal Society for Public Health.