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Mental Health Status of Healthcare Workers During the COVID-19 Outbreak
2021
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic is a massive health crisis that has exerted enormous physical and psychological pressure. Mental healthcare for healthcare workers (HCWs) should receive serious consideration. This study served to determine the mental-health outcomes of 1,556 HCWs from 45 countries who participated in the COVID-19 IMPACT project, and to examine the predictors of the outcomes during the first pandemic wave. Methods: Outcomes assessed were self-reported perceived stress, depression symptom, and sleep changes. The predictors examined included sociodemographic factors and perceived social support. Results: The results demonstrated that half of the HCWs had moderate levels of pe…
Living with disability in a COVID-19 world
2021
Flying-Related Concerns among Airline Customers in Finland and Sweden during COVID-19
2022
COVID-19 hit the global economy hard in early 2020, and airline industry was among the biggest commercial victims. Governments closed borders, the virus scared off travelers and the aircraft stayed on the ground to a large extent. The forecasted record year turned out to be the worst in the history of aviation. This study focused on the concerns of airline customers and analyzed the differences between the customer behavior in two focus markets, Finland and Sweden. The article is based on a questionnaire and the answers of 2004 airline customers. The results show that even though the overall COVID-19 strategy was very different between the focus markets, the same concerns still arose. The m…
The Children of Risk Communication
2022
For the management of the COVID-19 pandemic, risk communication has been a much-needed preventive and educative action to support citizens – including children – to adopt preventive and health protective measures. However, the COVID-19 pandemic is not the only health concern at hand that has raised concerns about the health status of children and required disease-preventive strategies. Bearing in mind the mental health problems and learning losses reported during the pandemic, in this commentary, we will argue that by now, it is time to consider critically if there could be more space for positive communication and education, both alongside and as an integral part of risk communication, to…
Everyday life and the new shapes of identities : The different meanings of ‘things that did not happen’ in the lives of Finnish older persons during …
2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected our lives in many ways since the end of 2019. This paper investigates the everyday lives of Finnish older persons during the first three months of the pandemic when they were required to stay in “quarantine-like conditions.” The study utilises the ‘sociology of nothing’ in exploring the meanings of nothingness in the everyday lives of older people; that is, the things, events and people that were absent from their lives because of the pandemic. The main interest of the article is to reverse the typical analytical focus from ‘things that happened’ to ‘things that did not happen’ and to shed light on the experiences and descriptions of older persons' unlived…
Risk perception and gratitude mediate the negative relationship between COVID-19 management satisfaction and public anxiety
2023
AbstractIn this study, we explored whether satisfaction with government management, perception of risk, and gratitude influenced public anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic in China. Using a cross-sectional, anonymous and confidential online survey, a nationwide sample of Chinese adults (N = 876) was targeted between March 25–March 30, 2020, a period in which newly confirmed cases significantly declined in China. The anxiety level was decreased as compared to that assessed during the peak period. Multiple parallel mediation modeling demonstrated that risk perception and gratitude partially mediated the relationship between satisfaction with government management and public anxiety. Increasi…
Viestintää Koronan aikaan
2020
Julkisen sektorin viestintä on koronapandemian aikana kansalaisten erityisen tarkkailun alla. Miten viestintää pitäisi muuttaa, kun poikkeustila nostaa kansalaisten odotukset korkeammalle kuin mihin julkisen sektorin viestinnässä ollaan valmiita vastaamaan? nonPeerReviewed
Kuolema koronan aikaan
2020
Telia Crowd Insights -tietojen hyödyntäminen pandemiatietoisuuden parantamiseksi Keski-Suomessa
2021
Telia Crowd Insights -tietojen hyödyntäminen pandemiatietoisuuden parantamiseksi KeskiSuomessa on Keski-Suomen liiton rahoittama hanke, jolla pyritään selvittämään, että pystytäänkö ihmisten ja ihmisvirtojen liikkeitä seuraamalla saavuttamaan parempi tilannekuva pandemia tilanteessa. Hankkeen tarkoituksena on keskittyä erilaisiin liikenteenseurantaratkaisuihin sekä tutkia koronaviruksen aiheuttamia vaikutuksia maakunnassa tapahtuvaan liikenteeseen ja liikkumiseen. Keväällä 2020 tuli voimaan poikkeukselliset olosuhteet, joiden takia liikenne muuttui merkittävästi erilaisten rajoitusten ja yleisen varovaisuuden vuoksi. Tämä on yksi merkittävimmistä ilmiöistä, joita projektissa pyritään tutkim…
Factors mediating the psychological well-being of healthcare workers responding to global pandemics: A systematic review
2020
The worldwide outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and the likelihood of future pandemics has raised the attention to the effects of pandemics on the psychological well-being of individuals. Given their indispensable role in such situations, healthcare workers are at greater risk of mental health issues. This paper aimed to review the mediators of psychological well-being among healthcare workers responding to global pandemics. After registration on PROSPERO, a systematic review was performed in four databases. Following study selection (PRISMA guidelines), inclusion criteria and analysis methods were assessed. The quality of the included studies was assessed using the EPHPP criteri…