Open AccessLife Alterations and Stress During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan: Two-Time Comparison
Author(s) -
Junko Okuyama,
Shuji Seto,
Yu Fukuda,
Kiyoshi Itō,
Fumihiko Imamura,
Shunichi Funakoshi,
Shin-ichi Izumi,
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Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
journal of disaster research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.332
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1883-8030
pISSN - 1881-2473
DOI - 10.20965/jdr.2022.p0043
Subject(s) - pandemic , covid-19 , demography , gerontology , psychology , medicine , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , virology , outbreak , sociology
No other infectious disease that has had a long-lasting impact on humanity in recent times has caused as much hardship as the coronavirus disease, COVID-19. While several cross-sectional surveys have reported the effects of the pandemic on daily life, there have been very few longitudinal reports from Japan. Therefore, we conducted web-based questionnaire surveys 131 and 610 days after the first case of COVID-19 infection was reported in Japan. There were 244 and 220 participants in the first and second surveys, respectively. The percentage of participants who felt stressed increased from 76 to 97% from the first to the second survey, while the frequency of going out and playing sports/exercising did not change. Regarding the problems faced due to COVID-19, the number of people who mentioned the word “stress” increased significantly in the second survey. The changes in perceived stress under difficult circumstances over a period of time can aid prediction and support during the COVID-19 pandemic in the future.