Financial hardship and health risk behavior during COVID-19 in a large US national sample of women

Sampson, Laura; Ettman, Catherine K.; Abdalla, Salma M; Colyer, Elizabeth; Dukes, Kimberly; Lane, Kevin; Galea, Sandro

doi:10.1016/j.ssmph.2021.100734

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“…According to the latest data from the Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey in January 2021, 11% of U.S. adults said that their household sometimes or often did not have enough to eat in the last seven days, while 1 in 5 adults living in rental housing could not pay their rent. These financial strains raise concerns of the negative influences they have on consumer finances (McCloud & Dwyer, 2011 ), health behaviors and outcomes (Choi, 2018 ; Rantakeisu et al, 1999 ; Sampson et al, 2021 ), and overall family well-being (Park et al, 2017 ).…”

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The Relationship Between Financial Worries and Psychological Distress Among U.S. Adults

Ryu

Fan

2022

J Fam Econ Iss

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This study examines the association between financial worries and psychological distress among US adults and tests its moderating effects by gender, marital status, employment status, education, and income levels. Data were derived from the cross-sectional 2018 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) of the adult population. The hierarchical regression analysis revealed that higher financial worries were significantly associated with higher psychological distress. Additionally, the association between financial worries and psychological distress was more pronounced among the unmarried, the unemployed, lower-income households, and renters than their counterparts. The findings suggest that accessible financial counseling programs and public health intervention programs are needed to mitigate financial worries and its negative influences on overall psychological health, with greater attention devoted to vulnerable populations.

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The Relationship Between Financial Worries and Psychological Distress Among U.S. Adults

Ryu

Fan

2022

J Fam Econ Iss

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“…This is likely to have been felt most severely for socioeconomically disadvantaged groups, given known inequities in access to green and blue spaces [22][23][24][25]. Furthermore, since ability to work from home was skewed towards more affluent groups [26], people on low incomes and/or experiencing financial difficulties who already tend to be in disproportionately poor health [27,28] may have experienced a double disadvantage with comparatively poorer access and less time to visit green and/or blue spaces relative to their more affluent counterparts.…”

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Time for ‘Green’ during COVID-19? Inequities in Green and Blue Space Access, Visitation and Felt Benefits

Astell-Burt

Feng

2021

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We hypothesized that visits to green and blue spaces may have enabled respite, connection and exercise during the COVID-19 pandemic, but such benefits might have been inequitably distributed due to differences in financial difficulties, opportunities to work from home, and localized restrictions in spatial mobility generated by ‘lockdowns’. A nationally representative online and telephone survey conducted in 12–26 October on the Social Research Centre’s Life in AustraliaTM panel (aged ≥ 18 y, 78.8% response, N = 3043) asked about access, visitation, and felt benefits from green and/or blue spaces. Increasing financial difficulty was associated with less time in and fewer visits to green and/or blue spaces, as well as fewer different types visited. Financial difficulty was also associated with feelings that visits to green and/or blue space had less benefit for maintaining social connection. Working from home was associated with more frequent and longer visitation to green and/or blue spaces, as well as discovery of ones previously unvisited. Working from home was also associated with increased levels of exercise and respite resulting from visits to green and/or blue spaces. Residents of Melbourne, a city of 4.9 million who were in ‘lockdown’ at the time of the survey, appeared more likely to benefit from visits to green and/or blue spaces than residents of Sydney, Australia’s largest city at 5.2 million, who were not in lockdown. Residents of Melbourne compared with Sydney reported consistently increased visitation of, discovery of, and greater levels of various felt benefits derived from green and/or blue spaces, including more respite, connection, and exercise. Comparatively shorter distances to preferred green and/or blue spaces and closure of alternative settings at the time of the survey completion in Melbourne compared with Sydney may provide partial explanation, though more acute responses to experiencing green and/or blue spaces within highly cognitively demanding antecedent conditions posed by lockdown are also plausible and warrant further investigation with other health indicators. These results were robust to adjustment for a range of covariates including preferences for natural settings, which were consistently associated with greater levels of green and/or blue space visitation and felt benefits. Collectively, these results indicate that parallel efforts to generate (or renew) felt connection to natural settings, to increase working from home opportunities, and to mitigate financial difficulties may be important to help maximize the population health benefits of urban planning strategies intended to improve the availability of, and to reduce inequities in access to, green and blue spaces. Benefits felt more commonly by people living through lockdown underlines the role previous investments in green and blue space have played in enabling coping during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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“…5), повторивший большой пик продаж в первую волну. Понятно, что делать водку индикатором стресса не вполне корректно, но пока что замеры стресса в России во время эпидемии единичны [28], но широко представлены в западной Теория общесТвенного здоровья научной литературе [29], даже в сравнительном аспекте (например, [30]) или с обозначением источников стресса (например, финансовый стресс [31]).…”

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Alcohol consumption during the coronavirus epidemic in Russia

Nemtsov

Gridin

2021

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The aim of the study is to assess alcohol consumption during the coronavirus epidemic in Russia.Materials and methods – retail sales of alcoholic beverages, which account for about 70% of the alcohol market in the country, as well as online inquiries for the delivery of illegal vodka were assessed. The assessment of changes was made on the basis of a comparison of the period March 2020-March 2021 with the average 2018–2019, and in the case of sales growth in 2018–2019 – based on average and linear regression. Internet requests for the delivery of vodka were obtained from the portals Google Trends and Yandex. The purchasing power of the population was assessed by the dynamics of the real money incomes of the population of the Russian Federation.Results – sales changes were ambiguous, both for diﬀerent drinks, and in the two waves of the epidemic. Alcohol spirits increased both in the frst (by 2.2%) and in the second half of the year (by 1.2%), despite a decrease in cognac sales due to an increase in MRP by 11.6% from January 2020. Wine sales decreased during the epidemic, but this is due to a number of administrative and legislative measures, as well as a twofold decline in production. During the epidemic, retail beer sales grew by 4.5% in the frst half of the year, and decreased by 3.4% in the second. Internet searches for the illegal delivery of vodka rose sharply at the very beginning of the epidemic (after March 22, 2020) and two weeks later reached a maximum (202.9 thousand per week; Yandex), exceeding the February level by 2.7 times. Further, the dynamics of online searches corresponded to the waves of the epidemic.Conclusions. The coronavirus epidemic was accompanied by an increase in the consumption of hard alcohol from various sources. It has been suggested that distress was the dominant factor in the growth of strong alcohol consumption during the coronavirus epidemic, despite the decline in the purchasing power of the population, especially during the second wave of the epidemic.

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Financial hardship and health risk behavior during COVID-19 in a large US national sample of women

Cited by 48 publications

References 41 publications

The Relationship Between Financial Worries and Psychological Distress Among U.S. Adults

The Relationship Between Financial Worries and Psychological Distress Among U.S. Adults

Time for ‘Green’ during COVID-19? Inequities in Green and Blue Space Access, Visitation and Felt Benefits

Alcohol consumption during the coronavirus epidemic in Russia

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