Health, distress, and life satisfaction of people one-month into COVID-19 outbreak in China

Stephen X Zhang; Yifei Wang; Andreas Rauch; Feng Wei

Such restrictive measures in China seemed to be effective in containing the spread of COVID-19 by mid-February and were applauded by WHO (The Washington Post, 2020). However, those measures have disrupted people's jobs and lives immensely and hence may have important implications for their health and wellbeing. [8] For example, evidence from the SARS crisis indicated that reduced mobility affected the wellbeing of quarantined residents in a complex manner. An article in Lancet COVID-19 series specifically highlighted that people who had been in quarantine reported a high prevalence of symptoms of psychological distress and disorder and some of these symptoms seem to stay long after the quarantine (Lima et al., 2020) . A paper in psychiatry research highlighted the need . CC-BY-ND 4.0 International license It is made available under a author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity.