Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Winterthur Institute of Health Economics, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur, Switzerland.
PLoS One. 2020 Nov 11;15(11):e0242129. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0242129. eCollection 2020.
The COVID-19 pandemic challenges societies in unknown ways, and individuals experience a substantial change in their daily lives and activities. Our study aims to describe these changes using population-based self-reported data about social and health behavior in a random sample of the Swiss population during the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of the present article is two-fold: First, we want to describe the study methodology. Second, we want to report participant characteristics and study findings of the first survey wave to provide some baseline results for our study.
Our study design is a longitudinal online panel of a random sample of the Swiss population. We measure outcome indicators covering general well-being, physical and mental health, social support, healthcare use and working state over multiple survey waves.
From 8,174 contacted individuals, 2,026 individuals participated in the first survey wave which corresponds to a response rate of 24.8%. Most survey participants reported a good to very good general life satisfaction (93.3%). 41.4% of the participants reported a worsened quality of life compared to before the COVID-19 emergency and 9.8% feelings of loneliness.
The COVID-19 Social Monitor is a population-based online survey which informs the public, health authorities, and the scientific community about relevant aspects and potential changes in social and health behavior during the COVID-19 emergency and beyond. Future research will follow up on the described study population focusing on COVID-19 relevant topics such as subgroup differences in the impact of the pandemic on well-being and quality of life or different dynamics of perceived psychological distress.
COVID-19 大流行以未知的方式挑战着社会，个人的日常生活和活动发生了重大变化。我们的研究旨在使用基于人群的自我报告数据来描述 COVID-19 大流行期间瑞士随机人群的社会和健康行为变化。本文的目的有两个：首先，我们要描述研究方法。其次，我们要报告参与者特征和第一波调查的研究结果，为我们的研究提供一些基线结果。
我们的研究设计是一个基于人群的瑞士随机人群的纵向在线小组。我们测量了多个调查波覆盖的一般幸福感、身心健康、社会支持、医疗保健使用和工作状态的结果指标。
从 8174 名联系的人中，有 2026 人参加了第一波调查，回应率为 24.8%。大多数调查参与者报告了良好到非常好的总体生活满意度（93.3%）。41.4%的参与者报告说，他们的生活质量比 COVID-19 紧急情况之前有所下降，9.8%的人感到孤独。
COVID-19 社会监测是一项基于人群的在线调查，它向公众、卫生当局和科学界通报了 COVID-19 紧急情况期间及以后社会和健康行为的相关方面和潜在变化。未来的研究将关注描述的研究人群，重点关注 COVID-19 对幸福感和生活质量的影响的亚组差异，或感知到的心理困扰的不同动态等相关主题。
