COVID-19, Lockdowns and Well-Being: Evidence from Google Trends
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Google Trends data is used to test whether COVID-19 and the associated lockdowns implemented in Europe and America led to changes in well-being related topic search-terms, and finds a substantial increase in the search intensity for boredom and a significant increase in searches for loneliness, worry and sadness.About:
This article is published in Journal of Public Economics.The article was published on 2021-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 356 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Population.read more
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Changes in the prehospital emergency technician's resilience during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A web‐based cross‐sectional study
TL;DR: In this article , the authors investigated the changes in the resilience of prehospital emergency technicians during the pandemic of COVID-19 and found that work stress increased among prehospital Emergency Technicians.
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The challenge of estimating the direct and indirect effects of COVID-19 interventions – Toward an integrated economic and epidemiological approach
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors present a comprehensive perspective on the concepts available as well as the challenges of estimating the overall disease burden and the direct and indirect effects of COVID-19 interventions from both epidemiological and economic perspectives, particularly during the early part of a pandemic.
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Heightened religiosity proactively and reactively responds to the COVID-19 pandemic across the globe: Novel insights from the parasite-stress theory of sociality and the behavioral immune system theory
TL;DR: In this paper , a multilevel analysis accounting for daily- and macro-level covariates was performed to predict daily-level COVID-19 severity during early pandemic stages.
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Exploring the Effects of Loneliness and Internet Addiction on Adults’ Well-Being During COVID-19 Quarantine
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the association of loneliness, internet addiction and related factors such as the number of hours spent online, and the quality of the relationship of people spending the quarantine with on well-being using the Internet addiction scale, UCL loneliness short scale, and WHO-5 measure.
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Psychosocial Determinants of Loneliness in the Era of the COVID-19 Pandemic—Cross-Sectional Study
TL;DR: Higher levels of loneliness were significantly associated with lower quality of life in the social and psychological domains, lower levels of self-efficacy, and remote work.
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An overview of systematic reviews on the public health consequences of social isolation and loneliness
TL;DR: It is highlighted that there is consistent evidence linking social isolation and loneliness to worse cardiovascular and mental health outcomes and Prevention strategies should therefore be developed across the public and voluntary sectors, using an asset-based approach.
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The Impact of COVID-19 on Gender Equality
TL;DR: The economic downturn caused by the current COVID-19 outbreak has substantial implications for gender equality, both during the downturn and the subsequent recovery as discussed by the authors, which has a particularly large impact on working mothers.