At Which Area Level Does COVID-19 Infection Matter Most for an Individual's Self-Rated Health? A Multilevel Fixed-Effects Model Analysis in Japan.

ABSTRACT: Several studies have reported the adverse impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on health outcomes. However, little is known about which area of COVID-19 infection matters most for an individual's subjective health outcomes. We addressed this issue in the present study. We used the longitudinal data of 2260 individuals obtained from a two-wave internet-based nationwide survey conducted in Japan. We estimated the multilevel regression models, which controlled for fixed effects at the individual and prefecture levels, to explain an individual's self-rated health (SRH) based on the reported number of new COVID-19 infection cases at different area levels: prefecture, group of neighboring prefectures, and regional bloc. We found that SRH was highly associated with the average and maximum number of n

SUBMITTER: Oshio T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9331239 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature