Table 1.
A list of main variables and a-priori definition (exposure, outcome) of variables collected in the COH-FIT study.
| Non modifiable exposure |
Modifiable exposure |
Outcomes [baseline values acting also as moderators, and change values as mediators] |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Demographic and socio-economic | Environmental and clinical | Behavioral/Psychological | Emotions / subjective status | Environmental and clinical | Primary outcomes | Secondary outcomes | ||
| Age | COVID-19 infection / symptoms | Adherence to pandemic-related social restrictions | Anger | Access to medications | Well-being | Anxiety symptoms / Panic episodes | Aggressive behavior perpetration | Appetite and food intake |
| Education | COVID-19 related social restriction severity and duration | Vaccine-related beliefs and behavior | Boredom | Mental health care access/utilization | Composite mental health P-Score | Depressive symptoms | Aggressive behavior victim | BMI |
| Employment status | Family history of mental illness | Coping strategies | Fear of getting infected | Physical healthcare access/utilization | Euphoric mood/Mood swings | Aggressive behavior witnessing | Pain | |
| Ethnicity/migration | Household (rooms, outside space, co-living people, social support) | Exercise | Frustration | Access to protective devices | Key secondary outcomes | Obsessive-compulsive symptoms | Concentration | Telemedicine experience |
| Gender | Mental condition | Prosocial behavior | Helpelessness | COVID-19 information | P-Extended score | Post-traumatic symptoms | Self-injurious behavior | Impact on education |
| Job type | Medical condition | Screen time (social media, TV, gaming, reading, listening to music) | Loneliness | Economic loss | General mental health | Psychotic symptoms (Hallucinatory experiences/ delusional experiences) | Sleep problems | |
| Marital status | Past traumatic events | Sexual activity | Resilience | Healthcare system (by country) | General physical health | Suicidal ideation / attempt | Addictive behaviors/substances | |
| Socioeconomic status | Urbanicity | Stress | Number of medications | Functioning / Quality of life | ||||
Legend. Modifiable exposure will also be considered as outcomes, depending on hypotheses to be tested.