COVID-19 and the Blitz compared: mental health outcomes in the UK

Jones, Edgar

doi:10.1016/s2215-0366(21)00118-8

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“…A vivid example is the Second World War and UK behavior. Thus, COVID-19 correlates with Britain's resilience to the London bombing by Germany (Jones, 2021). Scientists contrast today's Ukrainian resilience against war with the German and Red Army rapes during the Berlin Offensive.…”

Section: Literature Review and Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Resilience and vulnerability of Ukrainians: The role of family during the war

Kostenko,

Semenov,

Osetrova

et al. 2024

Problems and Perspectives in Management

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The full-scale russian invasion of Ukraine led to numerous physical and moral challenges. The paper aims to estimate the role of family as a social resilience driver in managing wartime challenges on a regional level. It used the online survey method based on Google Forms and online focus-group interviews in September-November 2022. Household members (1,089 respondents) of Kyiv, Lviv, Zakarpattia, Mykolaiv, Sumy, Chernihiv, and Dnipropetrovsk territorial communities were surveyed. Most respondents generally positively assess Ukraine’s prospects; 59% believe that the situation in the country will most likely improve. During war escalation, 67.2% of respondents waited for family support, and 48.8% helped their relatives, but relying on family support did not increase their safety expectations. In communities that did not increase their activity level in response to the war by one percentage point, the “feeling unsafe” responses increased by 1.8 percentage points, which means that an active civil position is also responsible for feeling safe (other things being equal) and increasing society’s resilience. At the same time, even in wartime, the indicators of social atomization are quite high, as 46.2% relied only on themselves and solved their problems independently, without anyone’s help. Therefore, developing family relations is one of the effective mechanisms for raising internal human resources to manage wartime challenges. AcknowledgmentThis study was supported by a project “Digital transformations to ensure civil protection and post-war economic recovery in the face of environmental and social challenges” (№0124U000549) and “Economic and energy security of Ukraine in the conditions of war and post-war reconstruction: disruptive technologies for sustainable development” (№0123U103593).

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Section: Literature Review and Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Resilience and vulnerability of Ukrainians: The role of family during the war

Kostenko,

Semenov,

Osetrova

et al. 2024

Problems and Perspectives in Management

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“…Furthermore, a challenging task necessarily takes much of the mental bandwidth, leaving less space for ruminations characteristic of depression. During periods of intense stress including the London Blitz during World War II, there was a paradoxical decrease in psychiatric presentation to hospitals, owing to the dire need of hospital beds (343). The efforts of every man and woman were needed, and this sense of purpose is protective against depression.…”

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Above the Sea of Fog: Dietary and Lifestyle Interventions for the Treatment of Depression

Halma,

Plothe,

Marik

2024

Preprint

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Antidepressants are among the most used medications in the US, with significant deleterious effects on people’s well-being. At any given time, depression impacts approximately 1 in 10 Americans, causing wide and broad societal costs. Interest is developing for non-pharmacological treatments and preventative measures. We summarize the literature on non-invasive dietary and lifestyle approaches for treating depression, including recent work with the psychedelic treatment of depression. This review aims to inform future research and treatment programs for depression. This review provides an evidentiary summary of integrative therapeutic approaches for depression.

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“…Similar to other research (Hibel et al, 2021;Paul et al, 2021), this study finds that workers' precariousness is related to job insecurity, poor working conditions, financial crisis and other psychological trauma. Psychological vulnerability is also associated with other inter-related factors, such as various health interventions (Jones, 2021). Furthermore, other researchers started focusing on the impact of the pandemic on mental health (Bodrud-Doza et al, 2020;Hossain et al, 2020).…”

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Assessing vulnerability of informal floating workers in Bangladesh before and during COVID-19 pandemic: a multi-method analysis

Alam

Adnan

Baten

et al. 2021

BIJ

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PurposeGlobally, a myriad of floating workers is in grave jeopardy due to the ceasing of employment opportunities that resulted from the mobility restriction during the Covid-19. Despite the global concern, developing countries have been suffering disproportionately due to the dominance of informal workers in their labour market, posing the necessity to campaign for the immediate protection of this vulnerable population. This paper analyses various dimensions of the vulnerability of urban floating workers in the context of Covid-19 in Bangladesh. In reference to International Labour Organization's (ILO) “Decent Work” concept, this paper endeavours to examine floating workers' vulnerability using the insider-outsider framework in context to Covid-19 pandemic.Design/methodology/approachThe study was conducted in two phases. In the first phase, data were collected before the pandemic to assess the vulnerability of the informal floating workers. Later, we extended the study to the second phase during the Covid-19 pandemic to understand how pandemic affects the lives and livelihood of floating workers. In phase one, data were collected from a sample of 342 floating workers and analysed based on job security, wages, working environment, psychological wellbeing and education to understand the vulnerability of floating workers. In phase two, 20 in-depth qualitative interviews were conducted, followed by thematic analysis to explore how the pandemic affects the existing vulnerability of floating workers.FindingsVarious social protection schemes were analysed to evaluate their effectiveness in reducing the vulnerability of floating workers facing socio-economic crises. The study has found that the pandemic has multiplied the existing vulnerability of the floating workers on many fronts that include job losses, food crisis, shelter insecurity, education, social, physical and mental wellbeing. In response to the pandemic, the Government stimulus packages and Non-government Covid-19 initiatives lack the appropriate system, magnitude, and focus on protecting the floating workers in Bangladesh.Practical implicationsThis paper outlines various short-term interventions and long-term policy prescriptions to safeguard floating workers' lives and livelihood from the ongoing Corona pandemic and unforeseen uncertainties.Originality/valueThis paper is the first of its kind that aims at understanding the vulnerability of this significant workforce in Bangladesh, taking the whole picture of Government and Non-government initiatives during Covid-19.

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COVID-19 and the Blitz compared: mental health outcomes in the UK

Cited by 9 publications

References 54 publications

Resilience and vulnerability of Ukrainians: The role of family during the war

Resilience and vulnerability of Ukrainians: The role of family during the war

Above the Sea of Fog: Dietary and Lifestyle Interventions for the Treatment of Depression

Assessing vulnerability of informal floating workers in Bangladesh before and during COVID-19 pandemic: a multi-method analysis

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