{"id":5959,"date":"2020-04-15T15:30:21","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T22:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5959"},"modified":"2021-03-05T15:31:15","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T23:31:15","slug":"public-perceptions-and-experiences-of-social-distancing-and-social-isolation-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-a-uk-based-focus-group-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/15\/public-perceptions-and-experiences-of-social-distancing-and-social-isolation-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-a-uk-based-focus-group-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Public perceptions and experiences of social distancing and social isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic: A UK-based focus group study"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Williams et al explored the perceptions and experiences of the UK public on social distancing and isolation measures against COVID-19 pandemic. They report that these measures had substantial negative impacts on the mental health and wellbeing of the public, especially those in low-paid or precarious employment. They recommend that it is necessary to mitigate the mental health impacts of COVID-19 as the support for and adherence to the policies are likely to wane over time, particularly where end dates are uncertain.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Williams et al. (April 15 2020). Public perceptions and experiences of social distancing and social isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic: A UK-based focus group study. Preprint downloaded April 15 from<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.10.20061267\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.10.20061267<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Williams et al explored the perceptions and experiences of the UK public on social distancing and isolation measures against COVID-19 pandemic. They report that these measures had substantial negative impacts on the mental health and wellbeing of the public, especially those in low-paid or precarious employment. They recommend that it is necessary to mitigate the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/15\/public-perceptions-and-experiences-of-social-distancing-and-social-isolation-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-a-uk-based-focus-group-study\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-5959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5960,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5959\/revisions\/5960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5959"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}