Social isolation consequences: lessons from COVID-19 pandemic in a context of dynamic lock-down in Chile

• Published in: BMC public health Vol. 24; no. 1; p. 599
• Main Authors: Patrono, Alessandra, Renzetti, Stefano, Guerini, Cristian, Macgowan, Mark, Moncada, Stefanny M, Placidi, Donatella, Memo, Maurizio, Lucchini, Roberto G
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 24.02.2024; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: Chile - epidemiology; Communicable Disease Control; Context; Control; COVID-19; COVID-19 - epidemiology; COVID-19 - prevention & control; Disorders; Eating behavior; Epidemics; Fear; Female; Gender; Habits; Headache; Health aspects; Health problems; Health risks; Housing conditions; Humans; Hygiene; Infections; Investigations; Mental disorders; Mental health; Minority & ethnic groups; Pandemics; Pandemics - prevention & control; Psychosomatic; Quarantine; Questionnaires; Refugees; SARS-CoV-2; School closures; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; Signs and symptoms; Sleep; Social interactions; Social Isolation; Sociodemographics; Students; Variables; Viral diseases; Young adults; Chile; United States; Santiago Chile; COVID-19; Psychosomatic; Young adults; Mental health

Chile did not adopt general and unified lockdowns for the whole nation but organized itself with dynamic and sometimes irregular lockdowns. These dynamics and consequences of social isolation could be generalized to other contexts of isolation such as those affecting minorities such as immigrants, p...