Veeroja Piret, Goodall Zoë, Guity-Zapata Nestor Agustin, Stone Wendy
Centre for Urban Transitions, School of Social Sciences, Media, Film and Education, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia.
J Hous Built Environ. 2023 May 20:1-22. doi: 10.1007/s10901-023-10038-w.
Lockdowns were the major policy response to COVID-19 containment in many countries, and subsequently many people spent abnormal amounts of time at home. Research has found that housing conditions affected more peoples' mental health during the COVID-19 crisis than prior to it, and vulnerable groups were especially affected. One group that may be particularly vulnerable is private renters in shared housing. Using a socio-economic lens, our research examined to what extent mental well-being outcomes were associated with housing conditions in shared housing under COVID-19 restrictions in Australia. Data about private renters were obtained from the Australian Rental Housing Conditions Dataset ( = 1908), collected in mid-2020 during the easing of the first lockdown restrictions. Respondents living in shared arrangements reported higher levels of worry and anxiety (8.5-13.2%) and loneliness and isolation (3.7-18.3%) compared to other household types. Binary logistic regressions showed that COVID-19-related mental and financial well-being variables were the main contributors in COVID-19-related worry/anxiety and loneliness/isolation models. Accumulated housing problems were the only housing condition measure that was significant in the worry/anxiety model. Participants who had more than two people living in a household felt 1.4 times lonelier/isolated compared to those who lived with four or more people. Males and participants who reported good mental health were less likely to feel COVID-19-related worry/anxiety and loneliness/isolation. Our analysis demonstrates the importance of measures for mental health and income during a pandemic and concludes with recommendations of support for shared housing renters during and beyond crisis events.
封锁是许多国家应对新冠疫情的主要政策措施，随后许多人在家度过了异常多的时间。研究发现，在新冠疫情危机期间，住房条件对人们心理健康的影响比疫情之前更大，弱势群体受到的影响尤为明显。其中一个可能特别脆弱的群体是合租住房中的私人租户。我们的研究从社会经济角度考察了在澳大利亚新冠疫情限制措施下，合租住房中的心理健康状况与住房条件之间的关联程度。有关私人租户的数据来自澳大利亚租赁住房条件数据集（n = 1908），该数据集于2020年年中在首次封锁限制措施放宽期间收集。与其他家庭类型相比，居住在合租住房中的受访者报告的担忧和焦虑水平更高（8.5 - 13.2%），孤独和隔离感更强（3.7 - 18.3%）。二元逻辑回归显示，与新冠疫情相关的心理和财务健康变量是与新冠疫情相关的担忧/焦虑和孤独/隔离模型的主要影响因素。累积的住房问题是在担忧/焦虑模型中唯一显著的住房条件指标。与四人或更多人合住的参与者相比，每户居住人数超过两人的参与者感到孤独/隔离的可能性高1.4倍。男性和报告心理健康状况良好的参与者感到与新冠疫情相关的担忧/焦虑和孤独/隔离的可能性较小。我们的分析表明了在疫情期间采取心理健康和收入相关措施的重要性，并在最后提出了在危机期间及之后支持合租住房租户的建议。
