The demand for information on a healthy lifestyle and lessons learned during the coronavirus pandemic
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Kozyreva P.M., Smirnov A.I. (2023) The demand for information on a healthy lifestyle and lessons learned during the coronavirus pandemic. Zhurnal sotsiologii i sotsialnoy antropologii (The Journal of Sociology and Social Anthropology), 26(2): 46-66 (in Russian). DOI: https://doi.org/10.31119/jssa.2023.26.2.3
Abstract
This article contains an analysis based on data from the “Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey” (RLMS-HSE) of the COVID-19 pandemic’s influence on the demand among Russian people for information on a healthy lifestyle. It is shown that, despite the fact that people began to pay much closer attention to health related issues during the onset of the pandemic, popular demand for such information remained be fairly low. Half of all surveyed Russian people take interest in information pertaining to a healthy lifestyle. However, only one in every sixteen people seeks it out intentionally. The highest demand for such information was registered among women, residents of large cities, as well as citizens who are highly educated. Additionally, the study showed that these particular respondents were also the most active when it came to learning in general and to being physically active. The connection between respondents’ demand for information on issues pertaining to a healthy lifestyle and their assessment of their own health status, as well as their evaluation of how the coronavirus pandemic and the associated restrictions affected their health, turned out to be fairly weak. Interest in knowledge that facilitates preservation and improvement of one’s health is more common among respondents who are more inclined than others to give a negative assessment of how the pandemic affected their health, though at the same time they find it easier and are quicker to adapt to new conditions. However, they are not much different from other categories of the population when it comes to assessing the efficacy of safety measures that were supposed to help mitigate the risk of getting infected with the coronavirus, as well as their implementation in personal practice. The demand for information on a healthy lifestyle is one of the factors that reduce negative attitudes towards administration of the coronavirus vaccine. The main causes of negative attitudes towards vaccination include a lack of faith in the vaccine’s efficacy, as well as fear of adverse effects, fear of negative health consequences. It’s worth noting that among the respondents who oppose the vaccines these reasons bear the most significance for those who show the least interest in issues pertaining to a healthy lifestyle.
Keywords:
vaccination, healthy lifestyle, COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, social adaptation, social wellbeing
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Yermolayeva P.O., Noskova Ye.P. (2015) Osnovnyye tendentsii zdorovogo obraza zhizni rossiyan [The main trends in a healthy lifestyle of Russians]. Sotsiologicheskiye issledovaniya [Sociological studies], 4: 120–129 (in Russian).
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Belova N.I. (2008) Paradoksy zdorovogo obraza zhizni uchashcheysya molodezhi [Paradoxes of a healthy lifestyle of studying youth]. Sotsiologicheskiye issledovaniya [Sociological studies], 4: 84–86 (in Russian).
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Bondin V.I., Manuylenko E.V., Tolstokora O.N. (2018) Zdorovyy stil' zhizni [Healthy lifestyle]. Mir nauki [World of science] [http://izd-mn.com/PDF/21MNNPM18.pdf] (accessed: 20.11.2022) (in Russian).
Dudchenko Z.F. (2013) Psikhologicheskoe obespechenie zdorovogo obraza zhizni lichnosti [Psychological support of a healthy lifestyle of a person]. In: Nikiforov G.N. (ed.) Zdorovaia lichnost’ [Healthy personality]. St. Petersburg: Rech: 356–367 (in Russian).
Fishbein M., Triandis H.C., Kanfer F.H. et al. (2001) Factors influencing behavior and behavior change. In: Baum A., Revenson T.A., Singer J.E. (eds) Handbook of health psychology. Mahwah, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates: 3–18.
Johnson N.G. (2003) Psychology and health: research, practice, and policy. American Psychologist, 58: 670–677.
Ivakhnenko G.A. (2022) Vliyaniye pandemii COVID-19 na otnosheniye rossiyan k svoyemu zdorov'yu: sotsiologicheskiy analiz [The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the attitude of Russians to their health: a sociological analysis]. Sotsiologiya meditsiny [Sociology of Medicine], 21 (1): 109–116. https://doi.org/10.17816/socm109658 (in Russian).
Korolkova A.S. (2020). Sposoby peredachi negativnoy pragmaticheskoy otsenki kontseptual'noy sfery «zdorovyy obraz zhizni» v blogosfere [Ways to convey a negative pragmatic assessment of the conceptual sphere of a «healthy lifestyle» in the blogosphere]. Medialingvistika [Media Linguistics], 7 (1): 83–94. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu22.2020.107 (in Russian).
Kulpin S.V., Savchuk G.A., Iakimova O.A. (2020) Zachem molodezh' sozdayet kontent o zdorovom obraze zhizni: faktornyy analiz tematicheskikh blogov [Why young people create content about healthy lifestyles: factor analysis of thematic blogs]. Monitoring obshchestvennogo mneniya: ekonomicheskiye i sotsial'nyye peremeny [Monitoring of Public Opinion: Economic and Social Changes], 2: 168–190. https://doi.org/10.14515/monitoring.2020.2.656 (In Russian).
Luszczynska A., Hagger M. (2016) Health Behavior. In: Benyaamini Y, Johnstone M., Karademas E.C. (eds.) Assessment in health psychology. Boston: Hogrefe Publishing: 60–72.
Nazarova I.B. (2007) Zdorov'ye zanyatogo naseleniya [Health of the employed population]. Moscow: MAKS Press (in Russian).
Novoselova E.N. (2021) Zdorov'ye kak tsennost' i rezul'tat deyatel'nosti: problemy i protivorechiya [Health as a value and a result of activity: problems and contradictions]. Vestnik Moskovskogo universiteta. Seriya 18. Sotsiologiya i politologiya [Moscow State University Bulletin. Series 18. Sociology and Political Science], 27 (3): 81–104. https://doi.org/10.24290/1029-3736-2021-27-3-81-104 (in Russian).
Pautov I.S., Pautova N.I. (2014) Prodvizheniye zdorovogo obraza zhizni kak instrument realizatsii gosudarstvennoy politiki v sfere okhrany zdorov'ya v sovremennoy Rossii [Promotion of a healthy lifestyle as a tool for the implementation of state policy in the field of health care in modern Russia]. Zhurnal issledovaniy sotsial’noy politiki [The Journal of Social Policy Studies], 12 (4): 493–508 (in Russian).
Petrash M.D., Murtazina I.R. (2018) Ponyatiye «zdorovyy obraz zhizni» v psikhologicheskikh issledovaniyakh [The definition of «healthy lifestyle» in psychological research]. Vestnik Sankt-Peterburgskogo universiteta. Psikhologiya i pedagogika [Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Psychology and Education], 8 (2): 152–165. https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu16.2018.204 (in Russian).
Pokida A.N., Zybunovskaya N.V., Gazieva I.A. (2022). Rol' vysshego obrazovaniya v formirovanii zdorovogo obraza zhizni (po rezul'tatam sotsiologicheskogo issledovaniya) [The Role of Higher Education in the Formation of a Healthy Lifestyle: Results of Sociological Research]. Vysshee obrazovanie v Rossii [Higher education in Russia], 31 (1): 72–88. https://doi.org/10.31992/0869-3617-2022-31-1-72-88 (in Russian).
Puzanova Zh.V., Chekhovsky I.V. (2014) Zdorovyy obraz zhizni: ponimaniye i otnosheniye studencheskoy molodezhi (po rezul'tatam fokus-gruppovykh issledovaniy) [Healthy lifestyle: understanding and attitude of student youth (according to the results of focus group studies)]. Vestnik RUDN. Seriya: Sotsiologiya [Bulletin of RUDN University. Series: Sociology], 4: 135–150 (in Russian).
Rusanova A.M., Kryuchkova N.V., Belyaeva Yu.N. (2015) Otsenka stepeni informirovannosti naseleniya po voprosam zdorovogo obraza zhizni [Assessing the degree of public awareness of healthy lifestyles]. Byulleten' meditsinskikh Internet-konferentsiy [Bulletin of medical Internet conferences], 5 (5): 551–553 (in Russian).
Ryazantseva M.V., Subocheva A.O., Yakushova E.S. (2021) O formirovanii tsennostey ZOZH studentov v postkovidnyy period [Students’ healthy lifestyle values shaping in the postcovid period]. Gumanitarnye Nauki.Vestnik Finasovogo Universiteta [Humanities and Social Sciences. Bulletin of the Financial University], 11 (3): 93–98. https://doi.org/10.26794/2226-7867-2021-11-3-93-98 (in Russian).
Sokolovskaya T.A., Armashevskaya O.V., Bakhadova E.V. (2021) Prioritety tsennosti zdorov'ya u naseleniya i vliyaniye na nikh pandemii COVID–19 [Health value priorities among the population and impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on those priorities]. Social'nye aspekty zdorov'a naselenia [Social aspects of population health (serial online)], 67 (3): 10. https://doi.org/10.21045/2071-5021-2021-67-3-10 (in Russian).
Spasennikov B.A. (2021) COVID-19: Uroki vaktsinatsii [COVID-19: Lessons from vaccination]. Byulleten Nacionalnogo nauchno-issledovatel'skogo instituta obshchestvennogo zdorov'ya imeni N.A. Semashko [Bulletin of Semashko National Research Institute of Public Health], 3: 116–125. https://doi.org/10.25742/NRIPH.2021.03.017 (in Russian).
Sterliadeva N.A., Chukanova T.V. (2022) Nekotoryye aspekty samosokhranitel'nogo povedeniya studencheskoy molodezhi v period pandemii koronavirusa [Some Aspects of Self-Preserving Behavior of Student Youth During the Coronavirus Pandemic]. Sotsiodinamika [Sociodynamics], 4: 50–56. https://doi.org/10.25136/2409-7144.2022.4.37752 (in Russian).
Ulumbekova G.E. (2010) Zdravookhranenie Rossii. Chto nado delat’: nauchnoe obosnovanie «Strategii raz-vitiia zdravookhraneniia RF do 2020 goda» [Health care in Russia. What to do: scientific substantiation of the «Strategy of development of health of the Russian Federation until 2020»]. Moscow: GEOTAR-Media (in Russian).
Varlamova S.N., Sedova N.N. (2010) Zdorovyy obraz zhizni — shag vpered, dva nazad [A healthy lifestyle is a step forward, two steps back]. Sotsiologicheskiye issledovaniya [Sociological studies], 4: 75–88 (in Russian).
Yermolayeva P.O., Noskova Ye.P. (2015) Osnovnyye tendentsii zdorovogo obraza zhizni rossiyan [The main trends in a healthy lifestyle of Russians]. Sotsiologicheskiye issledovaniya [Sociological studies], 4: 120–129 (in Russian).
Zhuravleva I.V. (ed.) (2014) Zdorov'ye studentov: sotsiologicheskiy analiz [Student Health: A Sociological Analysis]. Moscow: INFRA-M (in Russian).
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Received: 14.02.2023
Accepted: 02.07.2023
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Kozyreva, P.M. and Smirnov, A.I. 2023. The demand for information on a healthy lifestyle and lessons learned during the coronavirus pandemic. Zhurnal sotsiologii i sotsialnoy antropologii (The Journal of Sociology and Social Anthropology). 26, 2 (Jun. 2023), 46-66. DOI:https://doi.org/10.31119/jssa.2023.26.2.3.
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