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National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP) COVID-19 Study:
Survey Questionnaire
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Resource Type:
Survey/Questionnaire
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Availability:
Publicly Available, No Cost
Common Data Elements:
Yes
Date Published:
09/14/2020
Date Record Updated:
03/02/2022
Description:
This is a brief self-report questionnaire that probes how the coronavirus pandemic has changed older adults' lives. It is designed to be administered via web survey, phone interview, or paper-and-pencil mail-back instrument. The questionnaire was designed for respondents in the National Social Life, Health and Aging Project (NSHAP) (https://www.norc.org/Research/Projects/Pages/national-social-life-health-and-aging-project.aspx ), on whom considerable background information is already available. This questionnaire is thus limited to assessing specific domains in which respondents may have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic, and includes: (1) COVID experiences, (2) health and health care, (3) job and finances, (4) social support, (5) marital status and relationship quality, (6) social activity and engagement, (7) living arrangements, (8) household composition and size, (9) mental health, (10) elder mistreatment, (11) health behaviors, and (12) positive impacts of the coronavirus pandemic. Questions about engagement in racial justice issues since the death of George Floyd in police custody were also added to facilitate analysis of the independent and compounding effects of both the COVID-19 pandemic and reckoning with longstanding racial injustice in America.
Content Adapted From:
The following questions were adapted from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) 2020: COVID experiences (Q1-3), health care (Q6), job and finances (Q10), social support (Q13-16), social relationship quality (Q20), and living arrangements (Q32-33, 35-36).
The following questions were adapted from previous National Social Life, Health and Aging Project (NSHAP) rounds: physical health (Q4), marital status (Q17) and relationship quality (Q18), mental health (Q39-40, 44-48), elder mistreatment (Q49-50), and health behaviors (Q52, 54-55, 57, 59).
Items about social activity and engagement (Q21-24, 26-29) were adapted from the National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS) COVID-19 Questionnaire. o An item about change in marital quality (Q19) was adapted from the Monmouth University Poll.
Two items (Q42-43) were adapted from the Generalized Anxiety Disorder 2-item scale. Citation: Kroenke K, Spitzer RL, Williams JB, Monahan PO, Löwe B. Anxiety disorders in primary care: prevalence, impairment, comorbidity, and detection. Ann Intern Med. 2007;146:317-25.
Items about the positive impacts of the pandemic (Q60-61) were adapted from the Coronavirus Health Impact Survey (CRISIS) and the COVID Response Tracking Study.
Items about household composition and size (Q37-38) were also adapted from the COVID Response Tracking Study.
Additional Descriptors
- Administered By:
- Self, Trained Non-Expert
- Administration Mode:
- Online or Mobile App, Paper, Phone Interview
- Administration Time:
- 16-30
- Electronic Data Capture (EDC):
- RedCap
- Language:
- English
- Number of Survey Questions :
- 51-74
- Resource Type:
- Survey/Questionnaire
- Study Population:
- Age
- Age: Adult
- Age: Adult
- Event Type:
- Infectious Disease Outbreak
- Exposure Agent:
- Biological or Infectious Agent
- Biological or Infectious Agent: Virus
- Virus: SARS-CoV-2, SARS-CoV-1, MERS
- Virus: SARS-CoV-2, SARS-CoV-1, MERS
- Biological or Infectious Agent: Virus
- Special Topics:
- Diagnosis or Status or Treatment or Recovery, Domestic Violence or Family Impacts, Lifestyle or Quality of Life
Related Resources
Data Dictionary
NSHAP COVID-19 Data Dictionary
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