Collaborative Outcomes Study on Health and Functioning During Infection Times During COVID-19 Pandemic

Collaborative Outcomes Study on Health and Functioning During Infection Times During COVID-19 Pandemic

Observational, cross-sectional, multi-center, multi-wave survey, assessing characteristics and predictors of physical and mental health as well as health behaviors during COVID-19 pandemic, targeting the general population (children, adolescents and adults).

In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 (known as Coronavirus) virus a global pandemic. COVID-19 is a variant of coronavirus thought to originate in Wuhan province China. Up until April 7, 2020, as many as 1,346,299 individuals had confirmed COVID-19 infection, with already 74,679 deaths from COVID-19 complications.

The hypothesis of this study is that the physical and mental health of the general population and health care workers involved in the management of COVID-19 infected people is heavily affected by COVID-19, but that risk and protective factors exist.

Investigators plan to distribute 3 different surveys based on the age group. The first survey, COH-FIT-Adults/ (COH-FIT-A), will be distributed the general adult (age >/= 18 years old) population in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia via an online link, making the general population aware of the project via public announcements, social media and regular media coverage outlets, or via specialized institutes and agencies (e.g., opinion research centers) that are capable of using a randomly selected, nationally representative sample (potentially funded by national / local grant applications). For the subgroup of adult health-care professionals, additionally, survey distribution mechanisms will be used that utilize medical professional organizations and associations, hospital and university anonymized channels.

Guardians of adolescents aged 14-17 years old will be asked to provide electronic consent for their adolescent to participate in the COH-FIT-AD survey after having taken the survey and being familiar with the questions, being informed that the one question having sexuality as the content will be omitted from the adolescent version. Guardians of children aged 6-13 years old will be able to review the survey questions that children would answer before electronically consenting to participate.

Inclusion Criteria:

• General population
• Consenting to the study (adults)
• Guardians consenting to study participation of children and adolescents

Exclusion Criteria:

• Not consenting to the study (adults)
• Not assenting to the study (children and adolescents)
• age < 6 years old