Living circumstances, social connections, workload and COVID-19 testing
Living circumstances, social connections, work demand and COVID-19 testing | Healthcare worker | Other essential worker | Nonessential worker | P |
Living circumstances | ||||
Living situation | ||||
Living alone | 15.0% (57) | 13.9% (90) | 12.2% (179) | 0.075 |
With one adult | 24.7% (94) | 29.3% (190) | 28.9% (423) | |
With other adults | 24.5% (93) | 17.3% (112) | 20.4% (298) | |
With children | 35.8% (136) | 39.6% (257) | 38.5% (564) | |
Satisfaction with ‘bubble’ (defined as the people respondents were living with over the lockdown) | ||||
Extremely dissatisfied | 3.4%13 | 3.9%25 | 3.5% (51) | 0.36 |
Dissatisfied | 2.6%10 | 2.9%19 | 1.8%27 | |
Neither satisfied nor dissatisfied | 6.6%25 | 8.9% (58) | 8.5% (124) | |
Satisfied | 28.3% (108) | 32.8% (213) | 31.1% (455) | |
Extremely satisfied | 59.1% (225) | 51.5% (334) | 55.2% (808) | |
Getting along with members of household | ||||
Very badly | 1.2%4 | 0.5%3 | 0.6%8 | 0.68 |
Badly | 2.8%9 | 3.4%19 | 2.1% (27) | |
Neither well nor badly | 11.1%36 | 12.0% (67) | 11.1% (143) | |
Well | 43.2% (140) | 40.3% (225) | 41.1% (528) | |
Very well | 41.7% (135) | 43.8% (245) | 45.15 (579) | |
Change in contact with others outside bubble | ||||
Decreased | 36.1% (136) | 28.7% (186) | 33.7% (491) | 0.008 |
Stayed the same or increased | 63.9% (241) | 71.2% (461) | 66.4% (968) | |
Feeling lonely or isolated | ||||
All of the time | 2.6%10 | 3.2%21 | 1.8%26 | 0.53 |
Most of the time | 4.7%18 | 4.9%32 | 4.7% (69) | 0.53 |
Some of the time | 19.7% (75) | 21.9% (142) | 21.7% (318) | |
A little of the time | 32% (122) | 27.4% (178) | 29.8% (437) | |
None of the time | 40.9% (156) | 42.5% (276) | 41.9% (614) | |
Work | ||||
Workload increased | 31.8% (121) | 25.8% (167) | 17.2% (252) | <0.001 |
Less paid work | 20.5% (78) | 23.6% (153) | 40.5% (594) | <0.001 |
COVID-19 | ||||
Having a COVID-19 test | ||||
Tested | 11.6%44 | 4.8%31 | 3.1%45 | <0.001 |
Not tested | 88.4% (336) | 95.2% (918) | 96.9% (1420) | <0.001 |
Data were missing for the following variables (n): living circumstances (2), feeling lonely or isolated (1), change in contact (12), work (1), COVID-19 (1)