Abstract
This paper serves to alert IJPDS readers to the availability of a major new longitudinal survey data resource, the COVID-19 Psychological Research Consortium (C19PRC) Study, which is being released for secondary use via the Open Science Framework. The C19PRC Study is a rich and detailed dataset that provides a convenient and valuable foundation from which to study the social, political, and health status of European adults during an unprecedented time of change as a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic and Brexit. Here, we provide an overview of the C19PRC Study design, with the purpose of stimulating interest about the study among social scientists and maximising use of this resource.
Highlights
On 11 March 2020, Professor Richard Bentall (C19PRC Study Principal Investigator, at the University of Sheffield) convened a team of psychologists, political scientists, mental health researchers, and data analysts to establish a large, national study of the UK public to understand how they would respond to the existential threat of the novel coronavirus (SARS-COV2)
Our findings indicate that these political-psychological predispositions predict belief in a range of COVID-19 conspiracy theories, which are in turn associated with unwillingness to social distance and vaccinate against COVID-19 [30]
Data from completed waves of the UK and Republic of Ireland surveys are available on the Open Science Framework (UK, Ireland), and data from all survey waves, including those from Spain and Italy, are due to be made publicly available for secondary use within six months of the end of the Consortium’s funding awards
Summary
England – in their COVID-19 mental health and wellbeing surveillance report [29]. Our Consortium’s investigations of the UK’s social and political landscape are informed by a range of politicallyoriented measures such as right-wing authoritarianism, social dominance orientation, and ethnocentrism. Investigations of the populations’ health and wellbeing have been informed by data collected on engagement in social distancing and hygienic practices, alcohol use, health service use, pandemic-related buying behaviours, life satisfaction and attitudes towards vaccination [31,32,33] These data have been used, for example, to profile the population in relation to their intentions to vaccinate over time, finding that resistance to COVID-19 vaccination steadily increased in the UK over the period March to December 2020 and, that around one fifth of individuals belong to a group who have fluctuated in their intentions to vaccinate over this period of time [34, 35]. Key limitations include: (1) the recruitment of study participants via non-probability, opt-in online survey panels means that it was not possible to generate a response rate for the baseline survey due to the lack of a known denominator or sampling; (2) the lack of comparable pre-pandemic baseline data for common mental disorders; and (3) the exclusion of non-English speaking citizens in the UK and Republic of Ireland, as well as those adults in the general population without access to the Internet
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