TY - JOUR
T1 - RuralCovidLife
T2 - A new resource for the impact of the pandemic on rural Scotland
AU - Stevenson, Anna J
AU - Huggins, Charlotte F
AU - Forbes, Alison
AU - Hume, Jim
AU - Fulton, Grant
AU - Thirlwall, Claire
AU - Miles, Janet
AU - Fawns-Ritchie, Chloe
AU - Campbell, Archie
AU - Nangle, Clifford
AU - Dawson, Rebecca
AU - Edwards, Rachel
AU - Flaig, Robin
AU - Hartley, Louise
AU - Levein, Christie
AU - McCartney, Daniel L
AU - Deary, Ian J
AU - Hayward, Caroline
AU - Marioni, Riccardo E
AU - McIntosh, Andrew M
AU - Sudlow, Cathie
AU - Porteous, David J
N1 - Stevenson AJ: Data Curation, Formal Analysis, Visualization, Writing – Original Draft Preparation; Huggins CF: Data Curation, Visualization, Writing – Original Draft Preparation, Writing – Review & Editing; Forbes A: Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project Administration; Hume J: Conceptualization, Writing – Review & Editing; Fulton G: Conceptualization, Writing – Review & Editing; Thirlwall C: Conceptualization, Writing – Review & Editing; Miles J: Conceptualization, Writing – Review & Editing; Fawns-Ritchie C: Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – Review & Editing; Campbell A: Conceptualization, Data Curation, Formal Analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project Administration, Supervision, Writing – Review & Editing; Nangle C: Conceptualization, Data Curation, Methodology, Project Administration; Dawson R: Conceptualization, Investigation, Project Administration; Edwards R: Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project Administration; Flaig R: Conceptualization, Project Administration, Supervision, Writing – Review & Editing; Hartley L: Conceptualization, Methodology, Project Administration; Levein C: Project Administration; McCartney DL: Data Curation; Deary IJ: Conceptualization, Funding Acquisition, Supervision, Writing – Review & Editing; Hayward C: Conceptualization, Funding Acquisition, Supervision; Marioni RE: Conceptualization; McIntosh AM: Conceptualization, Funding Acquisition, Supervision; Sudlow C: Conceptualization, Funding Acquisition; Porteous DJ: Conceptualization, Funding Acquisition, Methodology, Project Administration, Supervision, Writing – Review & Editing
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - RuralCovidLife is part of Generation Scotland’s CovidLife project, investigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and mitigation measures on people in Scotland. The RuralCovidLife project focuses on Scotland’s rural communities, and how they have been impacted by the pandemic. During survey development, Generation Scotland consulted with people living or working in rural communities, and collaborated with a patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE) group composed of rural community leaders. Through this consultation work, the RuralCovidLife survey was developed to assess the issues most pertinent to people in rural communities, such as mental health, employment, transport, connectivity, and local communities. Between 14th October and 30th November 2020, 3,365 participants from rural areas in Scotland took part in the survey. Participant ages ranged from 16 to 96 (mean = 58.4, standard deviation [SD] = 13.3), and the majority of the participants were female (70.5%). Over half (51.3%) had taken part in the original CovidLife survey. RuralCovidLife includes a subsample (n = 523) of participants from the Generation Scotland cohort. Pre-pandemic data on health and lifestyle, as well as biological samples, are available for these participants. These participants’ data can also be linked to past and future healthcare records, allowing analysis of retrospective and prospective health outcomes. Like Generation Scotland, RuralCovidLife is designed as a resource for researchers. RuralCovidLife data, as well as the linked Generation Scotland data, is available for use by external researchers following approval from the Generation Scotland Access Committee. RuralCovidLife can be used to investigate mental health, well-being, and behaviour in participants living in rural areas during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as comparisons with non-rural samples. Moreover, the sub-sample with full Generation Scotland data and linkage can be used to investigate the long-term health consequences of the COVID19 pandemic in rural communities.
AB - RuralCovidLife is part of Generation Scotland’s CovidLife project, investigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and mitigation measures on people in Scotland. The RuralCovidLife project focuses on Scotland’s rural communities, and how they have been impacted by the pandemic. During survey development, Generation Scotland consulted with people living or working in rural communities, and collaborated with a patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE) group composed of rural community leaders. Through this consultation work, the RuralCovidLife survey was developed to assess the issues most pertinent to people in rural communities, such as mental health, employment, transport, connectivity, and local communities. Between 14th October and 30th November 2020, 3,365 participants from rural areas in Scotland took part in the survey. Participant ages ranged from 16 to 96 (mean = 58.4, standard deviation [SD] = 13.3), and the majority of the participants were female (70.5%). Over half (51.3%) had taken part in the original CovidLife survey. RuralCovidLife includes a subsample (n = 523) of participants from the Generation Scotland cohort. Pre-pandemic data on health and lifestyle, as well as biological samples, are available for these participants. These participants’ data can also be linked to past and future healthcare records, allowing analysis of retrospective and prospective health outcomes. Like Generation Scotland, RuralCovidLife is designed as a resource for researchers. RuralCovidLife data, as well as the linked Generation Scotland data, is available for use by external researchers following approval from the Generation Scotland Access Committee. RuralCovidLife can be used to investigate mental health, well-being, and behaviour in participants living in rural areas during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as comparisons with non-rural samples. Moreover, the sub-sample with full Generation Scotland data and linkage can be used to investigate the long-term health consequences of the COVID19 pandemic in rural communities.
KW - cohort
KW - longitudinal study
KW - COVID-19
KW - rural communities
UR - https://zenodo.org/records/5589038
UR - https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/6-317
U2 - 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.17325.2
DO - 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.17325.2
M3 - Article
SN - 2398-502X
VL - 6
JO - Wellcome Open Research
JF - Wellcome Open Research
M1 - 317
ER -