Health-related quality-of-life in the Swedish general population during COVID-19 based on pre- and post- pandemic outbreak measurements
Persson U, Olofsson S, Gu N Y, Gong C L, Jiao X and Hay J W
Denna artikel i Nordic Journal of Health Economics visar hur livskvaliteten i den svenska befolkningen minskat under covid-19 pandemin baserat på en mätning under första (april 2020) och andra (januari 2021) vågen jämfört med en mätning strax före utbrottet av pandemin (februari 2020).
Artikeln bygger på IHE Rapport 2020:7 ”Quality-of-Life in the Swedish general population during Covid-19 – based on measurement pre- and post pandemic outbreak”, och inkluderar den ytterligare mätningen i januari 2021.
English summary
The outbreak of the pandemic COVID-19 (Coronavirus) has resulted in various international and national strategies, including non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) such as social distancing and travel bans, which have purportedly mitigated the health loss due to the pandemic but also given rise to a severe economic crisis. Both factors, the pandemic and the NPIs, can be expected to have an impact on the Health-Related Quality-of-Life (HRQoL) of the population.
The objective of this study was to estimate the impact on HRQoL of the Swedish adult population during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. A web-based survey was sent to randomised samples of the adult Swedish population before the outbreak of the pandemic in Sweden in February 2020 (n=1,016) and during the outbreak of the pandemic. The first wave pandemic data was collected in April 2020 (n=1,003), one-month after the outbreak and, the second wave data was collected in January 2021 (n=1,013), after 10-months living under the pandemic. HRQoL was measured using the EQ-5D-5L in the pandemic surveys, whereas the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) was used in all surveys.
The results suggested a reduction in average HRQoL as measured by VAS in the adult Swedish population, with 0.059 points reduction in VAS in April 2020 and 0.074 points reduction in January 2021, compared to the pre-pandemic measurement in February 2020. The loss in HRQoL was significant among respondents in the working age population (<65 years), suggesting that the social and economic impact of NPIs were the primary drivers for this specific cohort. Findings of this study supports a wide public health perspective and future HRQoL measurements at the population level throughout the pandemic.
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Publicerade rapporter:
Persson U, Olofsson S, Yan Gu N, Gong C L, Jiao X and Hay J
Quality-of-Life in the Swedish general population during Covid-19 – based on measurement pre- and post pandemic outbreak
Lund, Sweden: IHE Report 2020:7, Sweden
Persson U, Olofsson S, Keel G.
Disease burden associated with Covid-19 in Sweden – QALYs lost due to excess mortality
Lund: IHE Report 2020:8, Sweden
Nordic Journal of Health Economics, 2021; 9(1): 56-73
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5617/njhe.8332
