Table 1. Main measures in baseline and follow up questionnaires of the Corona Behavioral Unit cohort study, April 2020 –September 2022.
Module | Topics |
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Demographics (baseline) | Sex, age, municipality, education, country of birth, vulnerable health, living conditions, work, financial situation, 1.5m distancing in work situation, persistent complaints after COVID-19 infection. |
Demographics (follow-up) | Sex, age, vulnerable health, living conditions, work, 1.5m distancing in work situation, work, financial situation, persistent complaints after COVID-19 infection. |
Vaccination, testing, infection | • COVID-19 vaccination, symptoms, (self-)testing, infection, adherence to quarantine and isolation measures. |
Behavior | • Adherence to COVID-19 preventive measures: washing hands, use of paper towel, sneezing in elbow, keeping distance (in certain situations), not shaking hands, wearing face masks, working from home, ventilating the house. • Social activity and mobility: number of times leaving the house in different situations, having visitors at home, visiting others, going on holidays, visiting high risk countries. |
Wellbeing | • Self-perceived general health, satisfaction with life, mental health, loneliness, quality of social contacts, coping with COVID-19 situation, COVID-19 pandemic fatigue, experiences positive and negative effects. • Lifestyle & health: exercise, dietary patterns, alcohol use, smoking. |
Trust and Media use | • Trust in the COVID-19 approach of the Dutch government, comparing the Dutch approach to other countries, conversations with others about the approach. • Following the news on COVID-19, important source of information about the corona virus. • Procedural and distributive justice. |
Policy Support | • Policy support for current (at time of data collection) and future COVID-19 measures as taken by the Dutch government. • Procedural and distributive justice (i.e., how people feel they’re being treated, and whether they experience the Dutch government’s measures as being fair). |
Determinants of adherence | • COVID-19 risk perception (i.e., estimation of chance and seriousness of getting infected yourself or infecting others; concerns about a new corona virus variant). • Emotional response (i.e., the perception of how fast the virus is spreading and how much worry, stress, fear people experience). • Self-efficacy (i.e., the participant’s self-appraisal of their own competencies to comply to specific COVID-19 preventive measures). • Response efficacy (i.e., the perceived effectiveness of adherence to the COVID-19 preventive measures for reducing the spread of the virus). • Descriptive norms (i.e., the perception of which specific COVID-19 preventive measures are typically performed by significant others). |
Note. From round 15 onwards, items on procedural justice are included in the Policy Support module, in addition to the Trust and Media use module.