China’s zero-COVID policy and psychological distress: a spatial quasi-experimental design

IF 1.9 3区社会学 Q3 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Journal of Social Policy Pub Date : 2023-09-12 DOI:10.1017/s0047279423000430

Karl Yan, Shan Jiang, Lili Xia, Tianye Jin, Anran Dai, Chudie Gu, Angran Li

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Abstract

Abstract Before the Omicron variant ran amok inside China in November 2022, the Chinese central government’s dynamic zero-COVID policy effectively contained the spread of the coronavirus and its variants during multiple waves of outbreaks. However, it was not without cost. This study examines the impacts of stringent lockdown interventions on urban residents’ mental health during the initial outbreak of the Omicron variant in the spring of 2022. Using survey data from 522 respondents within the same neighbourhood and a spatial quasi-experimental design, the results show that strict lockdown interventions are significantly related to higher levels of psychological distress after controlling for observed confounders and that lockdown interventions have further spillover effects on mental health for residents in adjacent residential compounds who are otherwise free. Moreover, the results show that the lack of material supplies and medical care plays a more salient role in explaining lockdown effects on psychological distress than residents’ social interaction and trust levels of COVID-19 policy. Policy and intervention implications are also discussed.

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中国零冠政策与心理困扰:一个空间准实验设计

在2022年11月欧米克隆病毒变体在中国肆虐之前，中国中央政府的动态零冠政策在多波疫情中有效遏制了冠状病毒及其变体的传播。然而，这并非没有代价。本研究考察了2022年春季欧米克隆病毒首次爆发期间，严格的封锁干预对城市居民心理健康的影响。利用来自同一社区的522名受访者的调查数据和空间准实验设计，结果表明，在控制观察到的混杂因素后，严格的封锁干预与更高水平的心理困扰显著相关，并且封锁干预对邻近居民区的居民的心理健康有进一步的溢出效应。此外，研究结果表明，物质供应和医疗服务的缺乏比居民的社会互动和对COVID-19政策的信任水平更能解释封锁对心理困扰的影响。本文还讨论了政策和干预的影响。

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Social Policy carries high quality articles on all aspects of social policy in an international context. It places particular emphasis upon articles which seek to contribute to debates on the future direction of social policy, to present new empirical data, to advance theories, or to analyse issues in the making and implementation of social policies. The Journal of Social Policy is part of the "Social Policy Package", which also includes Social Policy and Society and the Social Policy Digest. An online resource, the Social Policy Digest, was launched in 2003. The Digest provides a regularly up-dated, fully searchable, summary of policy developments and research findings across the whole range of social policy.