Background: There is growing global concern about the potential impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on population mental health. We examine changes in adult mental health in the UK population before and during the lockdown. Methods: Secondary analysis of the UK Household Longitudinal Study Waves 6 (2014/15) to 9 (2018/19), matched to the Covid-19 web-survey […]

Background: The potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on population mental health is of increasing global concern. We examine changes in adult mental health in the UK population before and during the lockdown. Methods: In this secondary analysis of a national, longitudinal cohort study, households that took part in Waves 8 or 9 of […]

[…] on recipient reports, we may be more likely to capture how many in the population are caregivers. However, we may also be less likely to capture the full hours of care for each caregiver. These discrepancies in reported caregiving affect studies of the consequences of caregiving and economic evaluations of interventions that impact on caregiving.

[…] 2021. IP14 employed a web-first and telephone follow-up mixed-mode design, which differed from past waves but was necessitated due COVID-19. It also continued ongoing experiments on the impact of incentives, and as with prior waves, several other methodological experiments were included in the survey. Experiments were conducted on how to ask respondents for consent […]

Study on the potential impact of a step-change in homeworking, as induced by the COVID-19 pandemic, on agglomeration benefits in transport appraisal.