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A longitudinal study of capability-based quality of life and mental health in the first 5-months of lockdown restrictions in the UK

BACKGROUND: COVID19, and associated lockdown restrictions, have impacted on people’s daily lives. Understanding the mental health and wellbeing implications of these impacts has been identified as a public health research priority. AIMS: Building on an earlier cross-sectional study, the current stud...

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Autores principales: White, Ross G., Christiansen, Paul, van der Boor, Catharina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9993355/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36890497
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-15285-8
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description BACKGROUND: COVID19, and associated lockdown restrictions, have impacted on people’s daily lives. Understanding the mental health and wellbeing implications of these impacts has been identified as a public health research priority. AIMS: Building on an earlier cross-sectional study, the current study sought to investigate whether capability-based quality of life changed during the first 5-months of lock-down restrictions in the UK, and whether capability-based quality of life was predictive of future levels of depression and anxiety. METHODS: An initial convenience sample of 594 participants were followed up at three different timepoints spanning a 20-week time-period between March 2020 and August 2020. Participants provided demographic information and completed the Oxford Capabilities Questionnaire – Mental Health (OxCAP-MH), and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). RESULTS: The mean scores indicated that levels of both depression and anxiety decreased across the three timepoints, whereas capability-based QoL (as assessed by the OxCAP-MH) decreased over time. Capability-based QoL predicted additional levels of variance in both depression and anxiety levels when time and sociodemographic factors were controlled for. Cross-lagged panel model analyses indicated that capability-based QoL over a month into lockdown restrictions predicted levels of depression and anxiety 5 months into the restrictions. CONCLUSIONS: The study findings suggest that the capability-limiting impact of public health emergencies and related lockdown restrictions are important for understanding peoples’ levels of depression and anxiety. The implications that the findings have for the provision of support in the context of public health emergencies and associated restrictions are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-99933552023-03-08 A longitudinal study of capability-based quality of life and mental health in the first 5-months of lockdown restrictions in the UK White, Ross G. Christiansen, Paul van der Boor, Catharina BMC Public Health Research BACKGROUND: COVID19, and associated lockdown restrictions, have impacted on people’s daily lives. Understanding the mental health and wellbeing implications of these impacts has been identified as a public health research priority. AIMS: Building on an earlier cross-sectional study, the current study sought to investigate whether capability-based quality of life changed during the first 5-months of lock-down restrictions in the UK, and whether capability-based quality of life was predictive of future levels of depression and anxiety. METHODS: An initial convenience sample of 594 participants were followed up at three different timepoints spanning a 20-week time-period between March 2020 and August 2020. Participants provided demographic information and completed the Oxford Capabilities Questionnaire – Mental Health (OxCAP-MH), and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). RESULTS: The mean scores indicated that levels of both depression and anxiety decreased across the three timepoints, whereas capability-based QoL (as assessed by the OxCAP-MH) decreased over time. Capability-based QoL predicted additional levels of variance in both depression and anxiety levels when time and sociodemographic factors were controlled for. Cross-lagged panel model analyses indicated that capability-based QoL over a month into lockdown restrictions predicted levels of depression and anxiety 5 months into the restrictions. CONCLUSIONS: The study findings suggest that the capability-limiting impact of public health emergencies and related lockdown restrictions are important for understanding peoples’ levels of depression and anxiety. The implications that the findings have for the provision of support in the context of public health emergencies and associated restrictions are discussed. BioMed Central 2023-03-08 /pmc/articles/PMC9993355/ /pubmed/36890497 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-15285-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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title A longitudinal study of capability-based quality of life and mental health in the first 5-months of lockdown restrictions in the UK
title_full A longitudinal study of capability-based quality of life and mental health in the first 5-months of lockdown restrictions in the UK
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title_short A longitudinal study of capability-based quality of life and mental health in the first 5-months of lockdown restrictions in the UK
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9993355/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36890497
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-15285-8
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