Association between mental health and community support in lockdown communities during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from rural China

Jia, Ziyu; Xu, Shijia; Zhang, Zican; Cheng, Zhengyu; Han, Haoqing; Xu, Haoxiang; Wang, Mingtian; Zhang, Hong; Zhou, Yi; Zhou, Zucheng

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.01.015

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“…While the world is still struggling with the pandemic, there has been a lifestyle change in many countries and communities, which may have relatively longer socio-psychological and behavioural implications ( Shaw et al, 2020 ). Mental and physical health problems have become one of the significant challenges faced by the global population ( Jia et al, 2021 ). A growing number of studies suggests beneficial health effects of contact with urban green spaces ( Engemann et al, 2019 , Van Den Berg et al, 2015 , Gascon et al, 2015 , Zhang et al, 2020 , Qin et al, 2021 , Kabisch et al, 2021 , Gao et al, 2020 ).…”

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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the importance of urban green spaces to the public

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Green spaces provide people with countless intangible benefits, particularly important during crises. Restrictions imposed in many countries due to the COVID-19 pandemic forced people to maintain social distance, limit travels, and even refrain from visiting green spaces and stay at home at a certain point. The survey in one of the largest cities in Poland, Kraków, was intended to help understand the impact of the pandemic on the importance of urban green spaces to the public. The study focused on the first three stages of the pandemic in Poland, from March to November 2020. Nine weeks of the survey yielded over 1,250 responses. Responses to spatial questions were analysed with GIS tools and geoprocessing algorithms. The number of visitors to green spaces during the pandemic fell to 78.9% of the population, which is down 13.1% compared to before the pandemic. At the same time, the percentage of people refraining from the visits fell with each phase of the crisis. According to the study, residents believed green spaces to be important for their mental and physical health. Over 75% of the participants considered visits to green spaces as having a very big or big impact on stress level reduction. The work provides empirical proof of the importance of green spaces to residents, particularly during a crisis. The results can affect urban spatial policies and management of green spaces and can potentially be applied in other cities.

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“…The COVID‐19 pandemic, as a serious public health emergency with the fastest spread, the widest range of infection, and the most difficult to control, has a serious impact on numerous industries (Dai et al, 2021 ; Gssling et al, 2020 ; Pham et al, 2021 ) and causes emotional tension and psychological panic to the public (Joo et al, 2021 ). Jia et al ( 2021 ) suggested that the COVID‐19 pandemic and lockdown policies of community negatively affect people's psychological well‐being. Indeed, community and its organizational managers provide support for safety by addressing safety issues, which turns out to be another way of spreading the risk of the pandemic (Wang, Lin, et al, 2020 ) and may further result in people's risk perception (Tambo et al, 2021 ).…”

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“…Therefore, the scholars began to discuss the issue of community pandemic prevention. The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic has brought attention to many researches in the community, such as community volunteers (Miao et al, 2020 ) and community hospital (Ahmed et al, 2020 ), community resilience (Yip et al, 2021 ), and community support (Chan et al, 2021 ; Jia et al, 2021 ). It is noticed that people's mental health is affected by community lockdowns (Bueno‐Notivol et al, 2020 ).…”

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The effects of community safety support on COVID‐19 event strength perception, risk perception, and health tourism intention: The moderating role of risk communication

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The community is crucial in preventing COVID‐19 pandemic. By employing 313 online surveys, it is found that the community safety support enhances risk perception, disruption recognition, and criticality recognition but it negatively impacts on novelty recognition. Additionally, risk communication could moderate the relationship between risk perception and health tourism intention. These findings reveal that people would pay more attention to the risk information and they could join health tourism in the post‐pandemic period to enhance their personal physical and mental health. Therefore, health tourism enterprises should appropriately strengthen risk communication and improve people's health awareness to further promote healthy tourism consumption.

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“…Due to its functions of management, service, guarantee of residents’ rights, education, and maintenance of social stability, the community can intervene in response to MPHEs. The government has also encouraged communities to intervene in MPHEs through control and appeal [ 6 ], legislative guarantees [ 7 ], and cultural construction [ 8 ]. In such events, the community uses its functions such as service management, social guarantee, social security [ 9 , 10 ] to reduce the pressure on the government aroused from the citizens.…”

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Community Intervention System: COVID-19 Control in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China

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The COVID-19 epidemic has caused giant influences on people’s life, and China’s communities play an important role in dealing with these major public health events (MPHEs). Community as the grassroots autonomous organization has various significant functions in intervening in MPHEs. The community intervention follows a system which directly influences the anti-epidemic effectiveness. To explore the mechanism, we devise a theoretical system for community intervention, mainly consisting of “organizational structure”, “functional performance” and “internal and external connections”. Questionnaire surveys, the chi-square test, the independent sample T-test, and principal component analysis are used to identify the characteristics of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region’s (Inner Mongolia) community intervention. Through the empirical research, it is verified that the community intervention in MPHEs is the combination of “the structural response of the organization”, “the performance of the community’s own function”, and “the establishment of internal and external connections”. The central Inner Mongolia delivers the best performance in community intervention compared to eastern Inner Mongolia and western Inner Mongolia. The urban communities commonly perform better than that in the agricultural and pastoral areas. The built system and findings could provide a guidance for future community to improve its intervention capability.

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Association between mental health and community support in lockdown communities during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from rural China

Cited by 55 publications

References 54 publications

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the importance of urban green spaces to the public

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the importance of urban green spaces to the public

The effects of community safety support on COVID‐19 event strength perception, risk perception, and health tourism intention: The moderating role of risk communication

Community Intervention System: COVID-19 Control in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China

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