Changing living arrangements and stress during Covid-19 lockdown: Evidence from four birth cohorts in the UK.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The outbreak of Covid-19 in the UK has seen many families unexpectedly brought back together. The circumstances and stories of individual families have been picked up in the press focussing on the difficulties of people adjusting to their changed living arrangements. Yet, there have been few empirical analyses on how such changes might influence people's health and wellbeing. Therefore, this study explored the changing patterns of perceived stress by living arrangements change during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.

Methods

The data used relates to 12,532 cohort members in the special Covid-19 surveys conducted with the participants of the 1958, 1970, 2000-01 British birth cohorts and Next Steps (born in 1989-90) in May 2020. Probit regression mode

SUBMITTER: Evandrou M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7937552 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature