Table 3 Overview of the questions and the corresponding indicators of the second and the sixth COVID-19 Health Survey, Belgium 2020–2021
From: Domestic violence during the COVID-19 confinement: do victims feel more socially isolated?
Questions second survey | Questions sixth survey | Subjective social isolation dependent indicators |
|---|---|---|
Based on what you have seen, read or heard, how confident are you that the following institutions are dealing well with the coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic? “The health care services (doctors, hospitals, …)” 1. Very confident 2. Less confident 3. No opinion | Not included | Confidence in health care services 1. Very confident 2. Less confident - (answer category 3 excluded) |
How do you judge your social contacts of the last 2 weeks? 1. Really satisfied 2. Rather satisfied 3. Rather unsatisfied 4. Really unsatisfied | Idem | Satisfaction with social contacts 1. (Rather) unsatisfied (answer cat. 3–4) 2. (Rather) satisfied (answer categories 1–2) |
Over the last 2 weeks, how many people were so close to you that you could count on them if you would have had serious personal problems? 1. None 2. 1 or 2 3. 3–5 4. 6 or more | Idem | |
Over the last 2 weeks, how much concern have people shown in what you were doing? 1. A lot of concern and interest 2. Some concern and interest 3. Uncertain 4. Little concern and interest 5. No concern and interest | Idem | Quality of social support derived from OSLO social support scale (OSSS-3) [35] 1. Weak support 2. Moderate/strong support |
Over the last 2 weeks, how easy was it to get practical help from neighbours if you should have needed it? 1. Very easy 2. Easy 3. Possible 4. Difficult 5. Very difficult | Idem | |
Not included | Below you find some statements about you and the people around you. Please score how valid the statement is for you. 01. I experience a general sense of emptiness 02. There are plenty of people I can rely on when I have problems 03. There are many people I can trust completely 04. There are enough people I feel close to 05. I miss having people around me 06. I often feel rejected With the answer categories: 1. Yes! – 2. Yes – 3. More or less – 4. No – 5. No! | Social loneliness derived from the De Jong-Gierveld scale [36] (based on the items 02, 03 and 04) 0. Not lonely 1. Lonely Emotional loneliness derived from the De Jong-Gierveld scale [36] (based on the items 01, 05 and 06) 0. Not lonely 1. Lonely |