Table 1.
Overview of measures included in the COVID-19 Pandemic Adjustment Survey (CPAS).
| Construct | Measure (items) | Baseline/fortnightly |
|---|---|---|
| Demographics | Family demographics and socio-economic questions | Baseline |
| COVID-19 | COVID-19 factors (adapted from the CoRonavIruS Health Impact Survey (CRISIS) V0.1. (33) | Baseline-fortnightly |
| Parent factors | ||
| Well-being | Personal well-being index adult (34) (seven items) | Baseline-fortnightly |
| Personality | Introvert/extrovert | Baseline |
| Mental health | Depression and anxiety scale (DASS) 21-item version (35) | Baseline-fortnightly |
| Mental or physical health diagnosis | Baseline | |
| Emotion regulation | Difficulties in emotion regulation scale-16 item version (36) | Baseline |
| Positive affect | Positive and negative affect schedule short form (37) (five items) | Baseline |
| Physical health | Physical activity (1 item) from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC)a; sleep (one item) from LSAC | Baseline-fortnightly |
| Substance use | Alcohol consumption (1 item) from LSAC; cigarette smoking (one item) from LSAC | Baseline-fortnightly |
| Adult attachment | Experiences in close relationships scale–relationship structures (ECR-RS) (38) (nine items) | Baseline |
| Resilience | Brief resilience scale (BRS) (39) (six items) | Baseline |
| Loneliness | UCLA loneliness scale (40) (six items) | Baseline-fortnightly |
| Utopian thinking | Utopian thinking (one item) | Baseline |
| Family functioning | ||
| Family expressiveness | Adapted short-form of the self-expressiveness in the family questionnaire (41) (11 items) | Baseline-fortnightly |
| Stressful life events | Stressful life events over the past 12 months (42) (nine items) | Baseline |
| Couple conflict | Argumentative relationship scale used in LSAC (43) (five items) | Fortnightly |
| Relationship quality | Perceived relationships quality component (PRQC) questionnaire (44) (baseline survey, six items; fortnightly survey, one item only). | Baseline |
| Social support | Social support (1 item) from LSAC; social provisions scale (one item) (45); secure base characteristics scale (one item) (46) | Baseline-fortnightly |
| Neighbourhood disadvantage | Postcodes used to derive the Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) advantage and disadvantage (47) | Baseline |
| Parenting | Interpersonal mindfulness in parenting (IEM-P) (48) (three items); Emotion-focussed parenting (three items); parenting irritability from LSAC (49) (five items) | Baseline-fortnightly |
| Child outcomes | ||
| Physical health | Global child health | Baseline-fortnightly |
| Child diagnosis | Professional diagnosis or treatment | Baseline |
| Mental health | The short mood and feelings questionnaire (SMFQ) (50) (13 items); modified brief spence children’s anxiety scale (51) (four selected items); SNAP-IV 26-item parent rating scale, opposition/defiance (four selected items). Irritability (one item) and loneliness (one item) adapted from the CoRonavIruS Health Impact Survey (CRISIS) [28] | Baseline-fortnightly |
| Mood | Child mood (eight items) (fortnightly survey only) | |
| Physical health | Physical activity (one item) adapted from LSAC; sleep pattern and regularity (two item) from LSAC | Baseline-fortnightly |
| Screen-time | Screen time (two items) from LSAC | Baseline-fortnightly |
| Intervention | ||
| Interest in online interventions | Likelihood of using an online intervention (one item) | Baseline-fortnightly |
| Type online intervention | Likelihood of using self-guided or therapist assisted online mental health intervention (two items) | Baseline-fortnightly |
The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC) is a population-representative government-funded study comprising of two cohorts of children and their families recruited in 2005 and followed biennially (together, N = 10,000).