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. 2020 Oct 1;48(8):2740–2752. doi: 10.1002/jcop.22453

Table 1.

Categories, subcategories, and key‐ideas

Categories Positive Negative Neutral
Impact on social life and friendly relationships
  • Helps to understand the importance of relationships

  • Will help to strengthen and select friendly relationships

  • Loss of contacts

  • Makes impossible socializing, physical contact, and meet new people

  • Loss of moments or important life events

  • Decrease in social skills

  • Increased feelings of distrust

  • There are technologies to keep in touch

  • Relationships remain healthy

Impact on daily life and routines
  • More time for pleasurable activities, thinking and setting goals

  • Online lessons

  • Start exercising

  • Enjoy time with parents

  • Monotonous, repetitive, frustrating, and boring days

  • Absence of routine makes life disorganized and confusing

  • Low productivity and procrastination, there is no desire to do anything

  • Interferes with sports practice and athletes lives

  • Normal life, but at home

  • At the beginning it was hard, but then came the habituation

Impact on health and well‐being
  • Opportunities for personal growth

  • Happier time with school closing

  • Less tiredness and greater relaxation

  • Psychological symptoms (e.g., depression, anxiety, loneliness, irritability, poor concentration, etc.) and physical (e.g., headache and muscle pain)

  • Changes in sleep pattern and weight

  • Impossible to play sports as before

  • Greater use of technologies and substances

  • Fights and constant discussions

  • Economic impact on the household

  • School overload, with more school work

  • Not being able to sunbathe

  • Episodes of domestic violence and divorces will increase

  • Health remains stable

Differences in impact on sex, age, SES
  • Affects everyone in the same way

  • Lower SES are most affected

  • Younger and older are most affected

  • There are no differences between gender

Coping strategies
  • Communicate regularly with family and friends via video calls

  • Carry out pleasurable activities (e.g., exercise, reading, training, playing an instrument, playing games, watching television series, etc.)

  • Lead life calmly and positively

  • Have a routine and scheduled times to eat and sleep

Lessons for future pandemics
  • Comply with the guidelines of the Directorate‐General for Health from the beginning, do not devalue disease

  • Responsive and prepared the National Health System

  • Teachers trained for delivery of online classes, as well as students

  • Learn to value what you have in life, freedom

  • Maintain healthy routines, for example, resources display with the support of television (e.g., physical activity schedules, programs with healthy eating recipes before usual meal times, evening programs aimed at the whole family)

Abbreviation: SES, socioeconomic status.

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