Background (1): In the wake of COVID-19, elderly people have been labelled a risk group.
As the pandemic is a new crisis in Sweden, we have no knowledge on how this group …

The COVID-19 pandemic has become a public health emergency of international concern,
which may have affected lifestyle habits and mental health. Based on national health profile …

Rationale An important public health strategy during the COVID-19 pandemic was the
protection of people at risk of severe progressions of an infection; namely, older people and …

Aims: There is a need to document the mental-health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and
its associated societal lockdowns. We initiated a large mixed-methods data collection …

Aims: This study aimed to describe how the first phase of the coronavirus disease 2019
(COVID-19) pandemic affected older persons from the general Finnish population who are …

Objectives To investigate early effects of the COVID-19 pandemic related to (a) levels of
worry, risk perception, and social distancing;(b) longitudinal effects on well-being; and (c) …

Objectives With the spread of COVID-19, the Netherlands implemented a policy to keep
citizens physically distanced. We hypothesize that consequent reduction in the frequency of …

Background In the continuation of the first wave of the Covid-19 outbreak in Denmark,
unprecedented restrictions with great impact on the citizen's everyday life were …

Background The COVID-19 pandemic and associated policy responses, such as physical
distancing interventions, pose risks to mental health that could be mitigated by social …

Age is a critical risk factor for severe COVID-19. This is mirrored by older people showing
preventive health behaviors more frequently. However, collective action across all age …