Psychological cost of Hong Kong's zero-COVID policy: three-wave repeated cross-sectional study of pandemic fatigue, pandemic fear and emotional well-being from peak pandemic to living-with-COVID policy shift.

Results Estimating significant wave differences in scale scores A robust ANCOVA between our three waves indicated highly significant differences in male and female, 18–24-year-old respondents’ scores for CV-19 BFS (male: F (2,316) = 22.73, female: F (2,579) = 70.48; P < 0.001), FCV-19S (male: F (2,316) = 44.41, female: F (2,579) = 121.14; P < 0.001), depression (male: F (2,316) = 4.04, P = 0.019; female: F (2,579) = 43.86, P < 0.001) and stress (male: F (2,316) = 5.23, P = 0.007; female: F (2,579) = 24.75, P < 0.001), which trended towards declining post-Wave 1 (see Table 2 ).

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