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. 2022 Sep 25;19(19):12146.
doi: 10.3390/ijerph191912146.

People's Perception of Well-Being during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study in Japan

Daisuke Sasaki  1 , Anawat Suppasri  1 , Haruka Tsukuda  2 , David N Nguyen  1 , Yasuaki Onoda  2 , Fumihiko Imamura  1
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People's Perception of Well-Being during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study in Japan

Daisuke Sasaki et al. Int J Environ Res Public Health. .

Abstract

This study aims to examine people's perception of well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan and quantitatively clarify key factors towards realizing evidence-based policymaking. In March 2022, 400 participants responded to a survey conducted through Rakuten Insight. The authors applied an ordinal logistic regression (OLR), followed by principal component analysis (PCA), to create a new compound indicator (CI) to represent people's perception of well-being during the pandemic in addition to ordinary least squares (OLS) regression with a forward-backward stepwise selection method, where the dependent variable is the principal component score of the first principal component (PC1), while the independent variables are the same as the abovementioned OLR. Consequently, while analyzing OLR, some independent variables showed statistical significance, while the CI provided an option to grasp people's perception of well-being. Furthermore, family structure was statistically significant in all cases of OLR and OLS. Moreover, in terms of the standardized coefficients (beta) of OLS, the family structure had the greatest impact on the CI. Based on the study results, the authors advocate that the Japanese government should pay more attention to single-person households affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Keywords: COVID-19; Japan; compound indicator; disaster science; evidence-based policymaking; ordinal logistic regression; principal component analysis; single-person households.

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The authors declare no conflict of interest. The funders had no role in the design of the study; in the collection, analyses, or interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript; or in the decision to publish the results.

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Histogram of the CI.
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Histogram of the regression standardized residual.
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