People’s perception and cost-effectiveness of home confinement during an influenza pandemic: evidence from the French case

Orset, Caroline

doi:10.1007/s10198-018-0978-y

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“…Place confinement in epidemics has not been widely investigated with the exception of a few studies prior to COVID-19 (e.g., Zhu et al, 2017 ; Orset, 2018 ). The notion of being place confined during epidemics can also bring a sense of isolation and emotional distress ( Aronson, 2002 ).…”

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COVID-19 Place Confinement, Pro-Social, Pro-environmental Behaviors, and Residents’ Wellbeing: A New Conceptual Framework

2020

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Residents’ wellbeing in the present COVID-19 global health crisis requires a deeper understanding to determine appropriate management strategies to promote sustainable behaviors and contribute to human and planetary health. Residents’ behavior can have a profound influence in contributing to personal and global community’s health by responding effectively to emergency strategies in disease outbreaks such as the Coronavirus. It is evident that an understanding of residents’ behavior(s) pre COVID-19 across fields have relied on over-simplistic models, many of which will need to be revisited. Our interaction with people and nature while respecting social distancing has profound positive impacts on our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing. The current health pandemic has called that people be confined in their homes across many nations as a means to control the spread of the virus and save lives. This calls for research exploring the mechanisms; this paper develops and proposes a conceptual framework suggesting that place confinement promotes pro-social and household pro-environmental behaviors which could become habitual and contribute further to our people’s and our planet’s health. The proposed model concerns socio-economically favored social sectors whose survival is not as threatened by the pandemic as the poor sectors where wellbeing (and mental health) are at high risk. Some evidence shows that human connectedness to place may contribute to engagement in desirable behaviors. Interaction with other members of the household can help create meanings leading to collective actions promoting psychological wellbeing. Promoting hygienic behaviors in the household (frequent hand washing) while at the same time being conscious not to keep the water flowing when not required would contribute to a range of benefits (health, financial, biospheric, altruistic) and promote wellbeing. Engaging in pro-social behaviors may result in positive effects on psychological wellbeing, reducing mental distress giving rise to a sense of attachment and belongingness, trust and overall life satisfaction. Engaging people in low-effort pro-environmental behavior to maintain some levels of physical activity and biological harmony with natural environmental settings (e.g., gardening) may help reduce anxiety and distress. This is the first study exploring the interplay of relationships between place confinement, pro-social behavior, household pro-environmental behaviors, place attachment as a multi-dimensional construct and presenting their relationships to residents’ wellbeing. Behavioral change interventions are proposed to promote lifestyle change for people’s wellbeing and broader societal benefits.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

COVID-19 Place Confinement, Pro-Social, Pro-environmental Behaviors, and Residents’ Wellbeing: A New Conceptual Framework

2020

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“…Further, school closures have a noticeable effect on reducing diseases’ spread for children but may increase the spread of the disease for the elderly in the short-run. Orset (2018) analyse the attitude of French people to home confinement during an influenza pandemic and shows that over three-quarters of respondents indicate compliance with this measure, even if individuals’ reactions vary with socio-economic characteristics and direct experience with the infection.…”

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Determinants of the community mobility during the COVID-19 epidemic: The role of government regulations and information

Mendolia

Stavrunova

Yerokhin

2021

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

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This paper studies the dynamics of human mobility during the initial stage of the COVID-19 pandemic in countries around the world. The main goal of the analysis is to empirically separate voluntary reductions in mobility driven by the information about the location-specific pandemic trends from the effects of the government-imposed social distancing mandates. Google human mobility dataset is used to track the dynamics of mobility across a wide range of categories (e.g. workplace, retail and recreational activities, etc), while information on country-specific counts of COVID-19 cases and deaths is used as a proxy for the information about the spread of the pandemic available to the population. A detailed index of stringency of the government-imposed social distancing policies in around 100 countries is used as a measure of government response. We find that human mobility does respond in a significant way to the information about the spread of the pandemic. This channel can explain about 15 percentage points of the overall reduction in mobility across the affected countries. At the same time, our results imply that government-imposed policies account for the majority of the reduction in the mobility observed during this period.

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“…However, with the advancement of antibiotics and antivirals at the end of 20th century which allow the treatment of ill people preventing the spread of infections (Rothstein, 2015), this nonpharmacological intervention has been less used. Nevertheless, with the appearance of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), the Hemagglutinin Type 1 and Neuraminidase Type 1 (H1N1), Ebola, and, currently, during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic, its implementation has been worldwide (Orset, 2018; WHO, 2020a).…”

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The experience of individuals placed in quarantine: A systematic review, meta‐summary, and meta‐synthesis

Basso

Visintini

Achil

et al. 2021

Public Health Nursing

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Objective To summarize the experience of individuals placed in quarantine during an outbreak. Design A meta‐summary and a meta‐synthesis based upon a systematic review of qualitative studies. Sample The Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature, MEDLINE, and Scopus databases were all searched up to April 2020. Measurements The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta‐Analyses guidelines were followed; then, the methodological quality of the studies included was assessed with the Critical Appraisal Screening Programme tool for qualitative studies. Results Five studies have been included documenting the experience of 125 adult individuals. A total of 16 codes emerged: in the meta‐summary, the most and least frequent codes were “ Thinking about quarantine ” (80%) and “ Emotional roller coaster ,” “ Being alert for any symptom ,” “ Trusting or not? ,” “ Knowing who brought the infection ,” and “ Living in a surreal world ” (20%). The codes which emerged were categorized into three main themes which summarized the whole experience of being placed in quarantine: (a) “ Being swamped with a thousand emotions ”; (b) “ Being restrained ”; and (c) “ Needing to be considered .” Conclusions The experience of quarantine for people is a long journey which can feel chaotic due to uncertainty about the consequences on health, work, and the future. The findings of this study can help nurses in caring for quarantined individuals by enabling them to understand people's need for educational and emotional support. Ensuring the supply of consistent information is also important to increase people's compliance.

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People’s perception and cost-effectiveness of home confinement during an influenza pandemic: evidence from the French case

Cited by 13 publications

References 39 publications

COVID-19 Place Confinement, Pro-Social, Pro-environmental Behaviors, and Residents’ Wellbeing: A New Conceptual Framework

COVID-19 Place Confinement, Pro-Social, Pro-environmental Behaviors, and Residents’ Wellbeing: A New Conceptual Framework

Determinants of the community mobility during the COVID-19 epidemic: The role of government regulations and information

The experience of individuals placed in quarantine: A systematic review, meta‐summary, and meta‐synthesis

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