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- 24 May 2022
- Journal article
TeenCovidLife: a resource to understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescents in Scotland
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- Wellcome Open Research
Abstract
TeenCovidLife is part of Generation Scotland’s CovidLife projects, a set
of longitudinal observational studies designed to assess the
psychosocial and health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
TeenCovidLife focused on how adolescents in Scotland were coping
during the pandemic. As of September 2021, Generation Scotland had
conducted three TeenCovidLife surveys. Participants from previous
surveys were invited to participate in the next, meaning the age
ranges shifted over time.
TeenCovidLife Survey 1 consists of data from 5,543 young people age
12 to 17, collected from 22 May to 5 July 2020, during the first school
closures period in Scotland. TeenCovidLife Survey 2 consists of data
from 2,245 young people aged 12 to 18, collected from 18 August to
14 October 2020, when the initial lockdown measures were beginning
to ease, and schools reopened in Scotland. TeenCovidLife Survey 3
consists of data from 597 young people age 12 to 19, collected from
12 May to 27 June 2021, a year after the first survey, after the schools
returned following the second lockdown in 2021.
A total of 316 participants took part in all three surveys.
TeenCovidLife collected data on general health and well-being, as well
as topics specific to COVID-19, such as adherence to COVID-19 health
guidance, feelings about school closures, and the impact of exam
cancellations.
Limited work has examined the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on
young people. TeenCovidLife provides relevant and timely data to
assess the impact of the pandemic on young people in Scotland. The
dataset is available under authorised access from Generation
Scotland; see the Generation Scotland website for more information.
Rights
Copyright: © 2022 Huggins CF et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Cite as
Huggins, C., Fawns-Ritchie, C., Altschul, D., Campbell, A., Nangle, C., Dawson, R., Edwards, R., Flaig, R., Hartley, L., Levein, C., McCartney, D., Sinclair, S., Dolan, C., Haughton, D., Mabelis, J., Brown, J., Inchley, J., Smith, D., Dreary, I., Hayward, C., Marioni, R., McIntosh, A., Sudlow, C. & Porteous, D. 2022, 'TeenCovidLife: a resource to understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescents in Scotland', Wellcome Open Research, 6(277). https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.17252.2