Self-rated health when population health is challenged by the COVID-19 pandemic; a longitudinal study.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and consequent lockdown measures have had a large impact on people's lives. Recent evidence suggests that self-rated health (SRH) scores remained relatively stable or increased during the pandemic.

Objective

For the current project, we examine potential changes in the variance decomposition of SRH before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Netherlands.

Methods

We analyse data from the Netherlands Twin Register to examine pre-pandemic SRH scores (N = 16,127), pandemic SRH scores (N = 17,451), and SRH difference scores (N = 7464). Additionally, we perform bivariate genetic analyses to estimate genetic and environmental variance components in pre-pandemic and pandemic SRH, and estimate the genetic correlation

SUBMITTER: van de Weijer MP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9212653 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature