Longitudinal changes in home-based arts engagement during and following the first national lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

This study aimed to examine potential heterogeneity in longitudinal changes in home-based arts engagement during the first national lockdown and following gradual easing of restrictions in the UK. Furthermore, it sought to explore factors that were associated with patterns of longitudinal changes in home-based arts engagement.

Method

Data were from the UCL COVID-19 Social Study. The analytical sample consisted of 29,147 adults in the UK who were followed up for 22 weeks from 21 March to 21 August 2020. Data were analysed using growth mixture models.

Results

Our analyses identified five classes of growth trajectories. There were two stable classes showing little change in arts engagement over time (64.4% in total), two classes showing initial increases in arts eng

SUBMITTER: Bu F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8918873 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature