Context, design and conduct of the longitudinal COVID-19 Psychological Research Consortium (C19PRC) Study – Wave 3

McBride, Orla; Butter, Sarah; Murphy, Jamie; Shevlin, Mark; Hartman, Todd K.; Hyland, Philip; McKay, Ryan; Bennett, Kate M.; Gibson-Miller, Jilly; Levita, Liat; Mason, Liam; Martinez, Anton P.; Stocks, Thomas VA; Valli�res, Fr�d�rique; Karatzias, Thanos; Valiente, Carmen; Vazquez, Carmelo; Bentall, Richard P.

Abstract

Objectives: The COVID-19 Psychological Research Consortium (C19PRC) Study aims to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the adult population in multiple countries. This paper describes the third wave of the UK survey (the ‘parent’ strand of the Consortium) during July-August 2020. Methods: Adults (N=2025) who participated in the baseline and/or first follow-up surveys were reinvited to participate in this survey, which assessed: (1) COVID-19 related knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours; (2) the occurrence of common mental 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. Weights were calculated using a survey raking algorithm to ensure that the cross-sectional sample is nationally representative in terms of gender, age, and household income, and representative of the baseline sample characteristics for household composition, ethnicity, urbanicity and born/raised in UK. Results: 1166 adults (57.6% of baseline participants) provided full interviews at Wave 3. The raking procedure successfully re-balanced the cross-sectional sample to within 1% of population estimates across selected socio-demographic characteristics. Conclusion: This paper demonstrates the strength of the C19PRC Study data to facilitate and stimulate interdisciplinary research addressing important public health questions relating to the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: May 7, 2021
• Online Publication Date: May 22, 2021
• Publication Date: Sep 2, 2021
• Deposit Date: May 10, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: May 22, 2021
• Print ISSN: 1049-8931
• Publisher: Wiley
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 30
• Issue: 3
• Article Number: e1880
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/mpr.1880
• Keywords: COVID-19; psychological; general population; longitudinal; survey methodology
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2771275