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Title:

Activity, time-use and mental status in the era of COVID-19: Insight from Greece

Accession Number:

01763678

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

The COVID-19 pandemic shocked the global society and caused significant disruptions on various levels of economic and social activity, apart from the purely humanitarian and health perspective. International community and national goverments introduced a series of restrictions and other measures to minimize the spread of the virus. This paper provides insight from Greece, focusing on activities and time-use, statements towards mental health and overall wellbeing of citizens during the spring lockdown period of 2020. The analysis is based on data from more than 400 individuals collected through an online survey, which included psychometric attitudes and mental health scales, activity participation and time-use, as well as socio-economic variables and reactions to COVID-19 measures and overall situation. The authors present results and a respondent segmentation (based on k-means clustering) which provides useful insight into the mental health, wellbeing of individuals during the restrictions period and information regarding the activities of the various segments of the population before and during the lockdown. Main findings include the identification of three distinct clusters of the respondents, “Breezeless”, “Phobic” and “At peace” which demonstrated heterogenous time-use allocation and activity patterns during the lockdown. This is one of the first papers to present activity and time-use data for the 2020 lockdown period in Greece by developing a segmentation approach of the participants based on mental health scales and indicators. Such exploratory efforts are useful in identifying different population segments that may react to government restrictions in a heterogenous way and may exhibit varying mental health statuses.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AMR20 Standing Committee on Disaster Response, Emergency Evacuations, and Business Continuity.

Report/Paper Numbers:

TRBAM-21-02267

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

Authors:

Tsouros, Ioannis
Tsirimpa, Athena
Pagoni, Ioanna
Polydoropoulou, Amalia

Pagination:

17p

Publication Date:

2021

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 100th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2021-1-5 to 2021-1-29
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board; Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; Maps; References; Tables

Geographic Terms:

Greece

Subject Areas:

Security and Emergencies; Society; Transportation (General)

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2021 Paper #TRBAM-21-02267

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 23 2020 11:08AM