Mental health and wellbeing impact of COVID 19

ALSPAC’s pre-pandemic information and rapid new data collection enabled researchers to examine changes in mental health and inequalities during the pandemic, alongside risk factors for long COVID.

ALSPAC deployed six COVID-19 questionnaires, three home antibody testing studies, a pre-vaccine immune response study, and a long COVID questionnaire and biological sample collection. This created a resource for investigating the pandemic’s effects.

We consider this an important contribution towards academic research.

Sources:

• Mental health before and during COVID-19 (British Journal of Psychiatry)
• Long COVID risk factors (Nature Communications)
• UKRI National Core Studies programme (as part of the Longitudinal Health and Wellbeing National Core study)