![]() These essential purposes included leaving home for food shopping, for medical purposes or to provide care for a vulnerable person. The advice during national lockdown was to ‘stay at home’ and people were told to work from home wherever possible and to only leave their homes for essential purposes. This national lockdown period was part of the UK-wide national lockdown that commenced in March 2020. Given the large corpus of work concerning the role of structural social factors such as poverty, racism, gender and age in explaining health and illness we hypothesised that our findings would be shaped by these classic determinants of health.ĭata collection took place for 23 days from 20 th May 2020 to 12 June 2020, spanning the 9 th to the 12th week of national lockdown in Scotland. Using cross-sectional data from an online survey, the key objective of the current study is to examine the social patterning of the positive effects of lockdown across a range of domains. Taking a salutogenic approach which focuses on the factors that support and promote health during stressful conditions, we examine the positive adaptation and growth experienced by some individuals. In contrast to the emerging evidence of the unintended negative effects of a national lockdown, here we report emerging evidence concerning unintended positive changes. Broader impacts on family functioning, loss of economic productivity, and education, including the gendered burden of home schooling have also been reported. Evidence also suggests a worsening of mental health in adults and children, along with increases in loneliness and isolation. For example, there is emerging evidence concerning the amplification of pre-existing health inequalities, both overall, and in sub-population specific groups (e.g., among Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) groups, those experiencing socioeconomic disadvantage, and the unemployed). Similarly, as had been anticipated, lockdowns have led to unintended and negative health consequences. Within Scotland it is clear that the initial national lockdown intervention succeeded in relation to its primary goal of reducing the exponential transmission of COVID-19 and achieving its intended positive health outcomes (see Fig 1). Theorising the initial effects of national ‘lockdown’ for COVID-19: Logic model showing high-level overview. ![]() The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.Ĭompeting interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.įig 1. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.ĭata Availability: All data files are available from the Open Science Framework, įunding: The study was funded by a Chief Scientist Office, Scottish Government (Ref: COV/SCL/20/09) research grant awarded to LW, LF, MG, XJ, AK, PF. ![]() Received: SeptemAccepted: DecemPublished: January 5, 2021Ĭopyright: © 2021 Williams et al. PLoS ONE 16(1):Įditor: José Antonio Ortega, University of Salamanca, SPAIN ![]() ![]() (2021) What have we learned about positive changes experienced during COVID-19 lockdown? Evidence of the social patterning of change. Citation: Williams L, Rollins L, Young D, Fleming L, Grealy M, Janssen X, et al. ![]()
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