McBride, Orla and Murphy, Jamie and Shevlin, Mark and Gibson-Miller, Jilly and Hartman, Todd K. and Hyland, Philip and Levita, Liat and Mason, Liam and Martinez, Anton P. and McKay, Ryan and Stocks, Thomas V.A. and Bennett, Kate M. and Vallières, Frédérique and Karatzias, Thanos and Valiente, Carmen and Vazquez, Carmelo and Bentall, Richard (2020) Monitoring the psychological, social, and economic impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic in the population: Context, design and conduct of the longitudinal COVID‐19 psychological research consortium (C19PRC) study. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, 30 (e1861). ISSN 1049-8931

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Objectives: The C19PRC study aims to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the adult population of the UK, Republic of Ireland, and Spain. This paper describes the conduct of the first two waves of the UK survey (the "parent" strand of the Consortium) during March-April 2020. Methods: A longitudinal, internet panel survey was designed to assess: (1) COVID-19 related knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors; (2) the occurrence of common mental health disorders as well as the role of (3) psychological factors and (4) social and political attitudes, in influencing the public's response to the pandemic. Quota sampling (age, sex, and household income) was used to recruit a nationally representative sample of adults. Results: Two thousand and twenty five adults were recruited at baseline, and 1406 were followed-up one-month later (69.4% retention rate). The baseline sample was representative of the UK population in relation to economic activity, ethnicity, and household composition. Attrition was predicted by key socio-demographic characteristics, and an inverse probability weighting procedure was employed to ensure the follow-up sample was representative of the baseline sample. Conclusion: The C19PRC study data has strong generalizability to facilitate and stimulate interdisciplinary research on important public health questions relating to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. © 2020 The Authors. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. McBride O, Murphy J, Shevlin M, et al. Monitoring the psychological, social, and economic impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic in the population: Context, design and conduct of the longitudinal COVID‐19 psychological research consortium (C19PRC) study. Int J Methods Psychiatr Res. 2021;30:e1861. https://doi.org/ 10.1002/mpr.1861
Keywords:	COVID-19; general population; longitudinal; psychological; survey methodology;
Academic Unit:	Assisting Living & Learning,ALL institute Faculty of Science and Engineering > Psychology
Item ID:	15114
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1002/mpr.1861
Depositing User:	Philip Hyland
Date Deposited:	14 Dec 2021 16:03
Journal or Publication Title:	International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research
Publisher:	John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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