Family Coping Strategies During Finland’s COVID-19 Lockdown

Salin, Milla; Kaittila, Anniina; Hakovirta, Mia; Anttila, Mari

doi:10.3390/su12219133

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“…Stress management strategies, e.g. stress reappraisal and mindfulness can help, and it is important for formal mental health services provided by family therapists, educators or health care professionals need to take into account of the diversity of distressed families’ care needs ( Salin et al, 2020 ). Family coping strategies developed during the Covid-19 lockdown, such as agreements about everyday practices, flexibility in daily routines, family time, and family conversation, are crucial for families’ everyday lives which may have been significantly altered during the pandemic ( Salin et al, 2020) .…”

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Changing living arrangements and stress during Covid-19 lockdown: Evidence from four birth cohorts in the UK

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Falkingham

Qin

et al. 2021

SSM - Population Health

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Background The outbreak of Covid-19 in the UK has seen many families unexpectedly brought back together. The circumstances and stories of individual families have been picked up in the press focussing on the difficulties of people adjusting to their changed living arrangements. Yet, there have been few empirical analyses on how such changes might influence people’s health and wellbeing. Therefore, this study explored the changing patterns of perceived stress by living arrangements change during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. Methods The data used relates to 12,532 cohort members in the special Covid-19 surveys conducted with the participants of the 1958, 1970, 2000-01 British birth cohorts and Next Steps (born in 1989–90) in May 2020. Probit regression models were used to assess the chance of reporting increased stress amongst those who had experienced changes in living arrangements during the pandemic compared to those who had not. Results The results provide strong evidence that those individuals whose living arrangements changed during the Covid-19 pandemic have a higher likelihood of reported increased stress than those whose living arrangements remained unchanged. This was most clearly seen for older cohorts. Increased interpersonal conflict plays a role in mediating the association, especially for the younger cohort. Conclusions The findings confirm that during the first lockdown, changing living arrangements were negatively associated with individuals’ mental wellbeing. As prolonged periods of stress can lead to serious health problems and policymakers need to be mindful that services may need to take these new, albeit for many temporary, forms of living arrangements into account.

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Changing living arrangements and stress during Covid-19 lockdown: Evidence from four birth cohorts in the UK

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“…Four types of coping strategies i.e., acceptance, humanitarian, mental disengagement, and seeking social support were examined. Salin et al [ 27 ] mention that most common emotion-focused coping method “adopted among the youth was acceptance.” Acceptance is “intended to disrupt the link between thoughts and behaviours to tolerate painful stimulation” [ 28 ]. The acceptance strategy involves a coping method that resolves into accepting the stressor in question.…”

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Coping with COVID-19: The Strategies Adapted by Pakistani Students to Overcome Implications

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Kamaludin

Chinna

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COVID-19 has speedily immersed the globe with 72+ million cases and 1.64 million deaths, in a span of around one year, disturbing and deteriorating almost every sphere of life. This study investigates how students in Pakistan have coped with the COVID-19. Zung’s self-rating anxiety scale (SAS) was used for measuring anxiety and the coping strategies were measured on four strategies i.e., seeking social support, humanitarian, acceptance, and mental disengagement. Among 494 respondents, 61% were females and 77.3% of the students were in the age group of 19–25 years. The study findings indicate that approximately 41 percent of students are experiencing some level of anxiety, including 16% with severe to extreme levels. Seeking social support seemed to be the least preferred coping strategy and that female students seek social support, humanitarian, and acceptance coping strategies more than males. Students used both emotion-based and problem-based coping strategies. The variables of gender, age, ethnicity, level and type of study, and living arrangement of the students were associated with usage of coping strategies. Findings showing that students do not prefer to seek social support. The study outcomes will provide basic data for university policies in Pakistan and the other countries with same cultural contexts to design and place better mental health provisions for students.

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“…Indeed, some NHS trusts have already begun to champion this style of consultation and by raising awareness and increasing the availability of this service may help to remedy the effects of lockdown (29). Moreover, a study from Finland demonstrated that coping mechanisms which emanated from close personal relationships proved to be the most significant strategy to maintain psychological well-being during the COVID crisis (30). Therefore, by increasing access and education relating to virtual communication platforms, which allow family units to stay connected, may prove beneficial.…”

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Covid-19, Lockdown and Self-Isolation: Evaluation of Deliberate Self-Harm Admissions

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Background: COVID 19 is still presenting a clear and dynamic global threat. The United Kingdom remains one of the hardest hit countries from the pandemic. In January 2021 parliament announced that the UK will be entering a full national lockdown. This paper explores what effect lockdown measures had on rates of deliberate self-harm presentations to one NHS trust in Manchester UK.Methods: This paper compared the number of cases of deliberate self-harm which presented to the emergency department of Manchester Royal Infirmary for March-May in 2018, 2019 and 2020. This was achieved by utilising coding from emergency department data and reviewing hospital records surrounding each case.Results: 2018 recorded a total of 101 admissions as a result of DSH with all causes admissions of 8,514 making the proportions of admissions due to self-harm 1.19%. In 2019, 9,038 patients were admitted, of these, 130 (1.44%) were identified as DSH. In 2020 the total number of admissions fell to 5,676 with 118 admitted due to self-harm, representing 2.08% of admissions. The absolute number of admissions remained stable however the proportion of admissions due to self-harm was significantly higher in 2020 (p < 0.001). Other significant findings include a higher proportion of male admissions compared to females in 2020 (58.5%) and a decrease in the normal of cases relating to paracetamol overdose in 2020.Discussion: The findings demonstrated by this study do not indicate that lockdown is an absolute risk for DSH behaviours however it does illustrate the stable nature of these cases despite and dramatic decline in all cause admissions. The rate of increase of deliberate self-harm accelerated significantly between March and May in 2020. Steps must be taken to avoid a similar situation following the 2021 lockdown and beyond – focus on improving access to certain virtual services may help to achieve this goal.

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Family Coping Strategies During Finland’s COVID-19 Lockdown

Cited by 65 publications

References 24 publications

Changing living arrangements and stress during Covid-19 lockdown: Evidence from four birth cohorts in the UK

Changing living arrangements and stress during Covid-19 lockdown: Evidence from four birth cohorts in the UK

Coping with COVID-19: The Strategies Adapted by Pakistani Students to Overcome Implications

Covid-19, Lockdown and Self-Isolation: Evaluation of Deliberate Self-Harm Admissions

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