McBride, O., Murphy, J., Shevlin, M. et al. (9 more authors) (Submitted: 2020) Monitoring the psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the general population : an overview of the context, design and conduct of the COVID-19 Psychological Research Consortium (C19PRC) study. PsyArXiv. (Submitted)
Abstract
The COVID-19 Psychological Research Consortium (C19PRC) Study aims to assess and monitor the psychological and social impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in the general population, using longitudinal surveys and mixed-methods studies in multiple countries. The first strand of the study, an internet-based panel survey, was launched in the UK in March 2020 during the earliest stages of the pandemic in that country (hereafter referred to as C19PRC-UKW1). This paper describes (1) the development, design and content for C19PRC-UKW1, which was informed by the extant evidence base on the psychosocial impact of previous global outbreaks of similar severe acute respiratory syndromes (e.g. SARS, H1N1, MERS); (2) the specific socio-economic and political context of the C19PRC-UKW1; (3) the recruitment of a large sample of UK adults aged 18 years and older (n=2025) via an internet-based panel survey; (4) the representativeness of the C19PRC-UKW1 sample compared to the UK adult population in terms of important sociodemographic characteristics (e.g. age, sex, household income, etc.); and (5) future plans for C19PRC Study including follow-up survey waves in the UK, supplementary non-survey based study strands linking from the C19PRC-UKW1 and the roll-out of the study to other countries.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 The Authors. Pre-print available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0). |
Keywords: | COVID-19; psychological; general population; longitudinal; survey methodology |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > Department of Psychology (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 04 Nov 2020 10:43 |
Last Modified: | 10 Nov 2020 07:52 |
Status: | Submitted |
Identification Number: | 10.31234/osf.io/wxe2n |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:167587 |