The Impact of Stay-At-Home Mandates on Uncertainty and Sentiments: Quasi-Experimental Study
Carolina Biliotti; Nicolò Fraccaroli; Michelangelo Puliga; Falco J Bargagli-Stoffi; Massimo Riccaboni · 2025 · Journal of Medical Internet Research
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Abstract
BackgroundAs the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus coincided with lockdown measures, it is challenging to distinguish public reactions to lockdowns from responses to COVID-19 itself. Beyond the direct impact on health, lockdowns may have worsened public sentiment toward politics and the economy or even heightened dissatisfaction with health care, imposing a significant cost on both the public and policy makers. ObjectiveThis study aims to analyze the causal effect of COVID-19 lockdown policies on various dimensions of sentiment and uncertainty, using the Italian lockdown of February 2020 as a qua
Abstract by Carolina Biliotti; Nicolò Fraccaroli; Michelangelo Puliga; Falco J Bargagli-Stoffi; Massimo Riccaboni, Journal of Medical Internet Research (2025) — licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Metadata source: DOAJ · DOI 10.2196/64667