Dale Rachel, Budimir Sanja, Probst Thomas, Humer Elke, Pieh Christoph
Department for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University for Continuing Education Krems Krems, Krems, Austria.
Department of Work, Organization and Society, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Front Psychol. 2022 Aug 1;13:934253. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.934253. eCollection 2022.
The COVID-19 pandemic has had unprecedented effects on our daily lives. This study aimed to assess the quality of life (QoL) (WHOQOL-Bref physical, social, and environmental domains) at two time points during the COVID-19 pandemic with lockdown restrictions according to gender, age, and urbanization level. Qualtrics recruited representative Austrian population samples in April 2020 (t1; = 1,005) and December 2020/January 2021 (t2; = 1,505). ANOVAs and the Bonferroni-corrected tests were conducted to investigate differences between April and December 2020 and to compare with pre-pandemic data. Although the quality of life (physical, social, and environmental domains) changed from pre-pandemic (mean scores 80, 77, and 81, respectively) to April 2020 (mean scores 72, 65, and 75, all -values < 0.001), there were no significant changes between April and December (mean scores 75, 65, and 75). Living location (urban vs. rural), gender, and age showed an effect on the quality of life. All domains of quality of life have decreased since the onset of the pandemic, and this decline has been maintained over the course of the first year of the pandemic. Creative measures should be implemented to assist people in improving one or more areas of quality of life, within the lockdown restrictions to improve the overall wellbeing of the population.
新冠疫情对我们的日常生活产生了前所未有的影响。本研究旨在根据性别、年龄和城市化水平，评估在实施封锁限制措施的新冠疫情期间两个时间点的生活质量（WHOQOL-Bref身体、社会和环境领域）。Qualtrics在2020年4月（t1；n = 1005）和2020年12月/2021年1月（t2；n = 1505）招募了具有代表性的奥地利人群样本。进行方差分析和经邦费罗尼校正的检验，以调查2020年4月和12月之间的差异，并与疫情前的数据进行比较。尽管生活质量（身体、社会和环境领域）从疫情前（平均得分分别为80、77和81）变化到2020年4月（平均得分分别为72、65和75，所有p值<0.001），但4月和12月之间没有显著变化（平均得分分别为75、65和75）。居住地点（城市与农村）、性别和年龄对生活质量有影响。自疫情爆发以来，生活质量的所有领域均有所下降，且在疫情的第一年中这种下降态势一直持续。应采取创新性措施，在封锁限制范围内帮助人们改善生活质量的一个或多个方面，以提高总体人群的福祉。
