ArticleBJPsych open2025
Psychological cost of Hong Kong's zero-COVID policy: three-wave repeated cross-sectional study of pandemic fatigue, pandemic fear and emotional well-being from peak pandemic to living-with-COVID policy shift.
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- The Changes of Quality of Life, Behavioural Problems, and Cognition Among Older Adults With Severe Dementia Under Social Distancing Measures in Residential Homes.American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementiasArticle
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Abstract
backgroundHong Kong's 3-year dynamic zero-COVID policy has caused prolonged exposure to stringent, pervasive anti-epidemic measures, which poses additional stressors on emotional well-being through pandemic fatigue, beyond the incumbent fear of the pandemic.
aimsTo investigate how major policy shifts in the zero-COVID strategy have corresponded with changing relationships between emotional well-being, pandemic fatigue from policy adherence, and pandemic fear, following the pandemic peak to a living-with-COVID policy.
methodA three-wave repeated cross-sectional study (
resultsThe severity of all measures was lowered after Wave 1; however, extreme pandemic fears reported in Wave 2 (
conclusionsPandemic fatigue and pandemic fear together robustly highlight the psychological cost of prolonged pandemic responses, expanding on a framework for monitoring and minimising the unintended mental health ramifications of anti-epidemic policies.
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