This section contains the latest COVID-19 longitudinal research and evidence, including briefing notes, reports, academic publications and articles.
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Last updated: 19 February 2021
| COVID-19 Publication | Date of publication | Longitudinal study | Geographical coverage | Type of publication | Topic/theme | Access publication |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Association analysis framework of genetic and exposure risks for COVID-19 in middle-aged and elderly adults | 2021/03 | UK Biobank | National | Article | Genetics; Comorbidity; Health behaviours | Link to the article |
| Pre-pandemic cognitive function and COVID-19 mortality: prospective cohort study | 2021/02 | UK Biobank | National | Pre-print (awaiting peer review) | Cognitive function; Mortality; Inequalities | Link to the paper |
| Everybody hurts: Self-employment, financial concerns, mental distress, and well-being during COVID-19 | 2021/02 | Understanding Society | National | Article | Mental health; financial wellbeing; Self-employment | Link to the article |
| Explaining ethnicity disparities in COVID-19 mortality: population-based, prospective cohort study | 2021/02 | UK Biobank | National | Pre-print (awaiting peer review) | Ethnic groups; Mortality; Inequalities | Link to the paper |
| Work less, help out more? The persistence of gender inequality in housework and childcare during UK COVID-19 | 2021/02 | Understanding Society | National | Article | Housework; Child care; Gender inequality | Link to the article |
| COVID-19 mortality in the UK Biobank cohort: revisiting and evaluating risk factors | 2021/02 | Understanding Society | National | Article | Mortality; Comorbidities; Ethnicity | Link to the article |
| Early life factors and COVID-19 infection in England: A prospective analysis of UK Biobank participan | 2021/02 | UK Biobank | National | Article | Maternal smoking; Birth weight; Early life | Link to the article |
| COVID-19 Shielding Programme (Scotland) rapid evaluation: full report. | 2021/02 | Understanding Society | Devolved Nations | Report | Shielding; Programme evaluation; Food support | Link to the report |
| TeenCovidLife Survey 2 General Report Health and wellbeing of young people in lockdown | 2021/02 | Generation Scotland | Devolved Nations | Report | Young people; Well being; Stress | Link to the report |
| TeenCovidLife Survey 2 - Schooling Mini Report Cancelled SQA exams - impact on young people | 2021/02 | Generation Scotland | Devolved Nations | Report | Young people; Schooling; Qualifications | Link to the report |
| Individual factors underlie temperature variation in sickness and in health: influence of age, BMI and genetic factors in a multi-cohort study | 2021/01 | TwinsUK | National | Pre-print (awaiting peer review) | Ageing; BMI; Biogenetics | Link to the paper |
| Habitual use of vitamin D supplements and risk of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection: a prospective study in UK Biobank | 2021/01 | UK Biobank | National | Article | Vitamin D; Biogenetics; Supplements | Link to the article |
| Medium-run wealth inequality following COVID-19 | 2021/01 | Understanding Society | National | Briefing note | Wealth inequality; Recession; Low-income households | Link to the briefing |
| Tracking the mental health of home-carers during the first COVID-19 national lockdown: evidence from a nationally representative UK survey | 2021/01 | Understanding Society | National | Pre-print (awaiting peer review) | Unpaid carers; Mental health; Lockdown | Link to the paper |
| RuralCovidLife Survey General Report: Health and wellbeing of rural communities in Scotland | 2021/01 | Generation Scotland | Devolved nations | Report | Rural communities; Well-being; Employment | Link to the report |
| The impact of disability on employment and financial security following the outbreak of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic in the UK | 2021/01 | Understanding Society | National | Article | Disability; Financial insecurity; Employment | Link to the article |
| Working parents, financial insecurity, and childcare: mental health in the time of COVID-19 in the UK | 2021/01 | Understanding Society | National | Article | Financial insecurity; Child care; Mental health | Link to the article |
| The psychological impact of COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns: a review and meta-analysis of longitudinal studies and natural experiments | 2021/01 | Understanding Society, Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, Generation Scotland | National, Devolved nations | Article (Meta-analysis) | Mental health; Well-being; Lockdown | Link to the article |
| Poor metabolic health increases COVID-19-related mortality in the UK Biobank sample | 2021/01 | UK Biobank | National | Pre-print (awaiting peer review) | Metabolic health; Obesity; Hypertension | Link to the paper |
| No evidence that vitamin D is able to prevent or affect the severity of COVID-19 in individuals with European ancestry: a Mendelian randomisation study of open data | 2021/01 | UK Biobank | National | Article | Vitamin D; Genetics; Ancestry | Link to the article |
| Association of Timing and Balance of Physical Activity and Rest/Sleep With Risk of COVID-19: A UK Biobank Study | 2021/01 | UK Biobank | National | Article | Health behaviour; Sleep; Physical activity | Link to the article |
| Using machine learning to predict COVID-19 infection and severity risk among 4,510 aged adults: a UK Biobank cohort study | 2021/01 | UK Biobank | National | Pre-print (awaiting peer review) | Risk profile; Serology; Demographics | Link to the paper |
| The Heterogeneous and Regressive Consequences of COVID-19: Evidence from High Quality Panel Data | 2021/01 | Understanding Society | National | Working paper | Employment; Inequalities; Financial distress | Link to the paper |
| COVID-19 and mental health deterioration by ethnicity and gender in the UK | 2021/01 | Understanding Society | National | Article | Mental health; Ethnicity; Inequalities | Link to the article |
| Cognitive disorders associated with hospitalization of COVID-19: Results from an observational cohort study | 2021/01 | UK Biobank | National | Article | Cognitive disorders; Dementia; Genetics | Link to the article |
| Links between air pollution and COVID-19 in England | 2021/01 | UK Biobank | National | Article | Air pollution; Nitrogen oxide; Mortality | Link to the article |
| Labour market shocks during the Covid-19 pandemic: inequalities and child outcomes | 2020/12 | Understanding Society | National | Working paper | Labour market; Earnings; Inequalities | Link to the report |
| Downturn In Workers’ Mental And Financial Wellbeing During Covid-19: Hardest Hit Are Those That Can Least Afford It | 2020/12 | Understanding Society | National | Briefing report | Mental health; Financial wellbeing; Inequalities | Link to the report |
| Coronavirus and the social impacts on different ethnic groups in the UK: 2020 | 2020/12 | Understanding Society | National | Report | Ethnic groups; Socioeconomic inequalities; Mental health | Link to the report |
| Physical activity and COVID-19: an observational and Mendelian randomisation study | 2020/12 | UK Biobank | National | Article | Physical activity; Health behaviours; Biogenetics | Link to the article |
| Predictors of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the UK Household Longitudinal Study | 2020/12 | Understanding Society | National | Pre-print (awaiting peer review) | Vaccine hesitancy; Demographics; Inequalities | Link to the paper |
| Face covering adherence is positively associated with better mental health and wellbeing: a longitudinal analysis of the CovidLife surveys | 2020/12 | Generation Scotland | Devolved nations | Pre-print (awaiting peer review) | Mental health; Compliance; Face coverings | Link to the paper |
| Loneliness and depression in patients with cancer during COVID-19 | 2020/12 | Understanding Society | National | Article | Loneliness; Cancer; Mental health | Link to the article |
| Exploring drugs and vaccines associated with altered risks and severity of COVID-19: a UK Biobank cohort study of all ATC level-4 drug categories | 2020/12 | UK Biobank | National | Pre-print (awaiting peer review) | Vaccines; Medication; Comorbidities | Link to the paper |
| Shift work is associated with positive COVID-19 status in hospitalised patients | 2020/12 | UK Biobank | National | Pre-print (awaiting peer review) | Health care workers; Shift work; Hospitalization | Link to the paper |
| Prevalence of COVID-19, symptoms and testing: Initial findings from the COVID-19 Survey in Five National Longitudinal Studies. | 2020/12 | Millennium Cohort Study; Next Steps; 1970 British Cohort Study; 1958 National Child Development Study; 1946 National Survey of Health and Development | National | Briefing paper | Prevalence; Symptoms; Generations | Link to the paper |
| Collider bias undermines our understanding of COVID-19 disease risk and severity | 2020/12 | UK Biobank | National | Article | Risk factors; Sampling bias; Epidemiology | Link to the article |
| The association between blood groups and COVID-19 infection: a study from the UK Biobank | 2020/12 | UK Biobank | National | Article | Blood group; Hospitalization; Infection | Link to the article |
| Unmet health care need and income-related horizontal equity in access during the Covid-19 pandemic | 2020/11 | Understanding Society | National | Article | Health care; Income inequality; Access to services | Link to the article |
| The Impact of Periodontal Disease on Hospital Admission and Mortality During COVID-19 Pandemic | 2020/11 | UK Biobank | National | Article | Oral health; Hospitalization; Mortality | Link to the article |
| Modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors for COVID-19, and comparison to risk factors for influenza and pneumonia: Results from a UK Biobank prospective cohort study | 2020/11 | UK Biobank | National | Article | Risk factors; Influenza; Pneumonia; Health behaviour | Link to the article |
| High-Risk Drinking in Midlife Before Versus During the COVID-19 Crisis: Longitudinal Evidence From the United Kingdom | 2020/11 | 1970 British Cohort Study | National | Article | Alcohol consumption; Mental health; Health behaviours | Link to the article |
| 'When will this end? Will it end?' The impact of the March-June 2020 UK Covid-19 lockdown response on mental health: a longitudinal survey of mothers in the Born in Bradford study | 2020/11 | Born in Bradford | Regional | Pre-print (awaiting peer review) | Mental health; Motherhood; Ethnicity | Link to the paper |
| Alcohol Consumption is Associated with Poor Prognosis in Obese Patients with COVID-19: a Mendelian Randomization Study using UK Biobank | 2020/11 | UK Biobank | National | Pre-print (awaiting peer review) | Alcohol consumption; Obesity; Ethnicity | Link to the paper |
| Psychological distress among people with probable COVID-19 infection: analysis of the UK Household Longitudinal Study | 2020/11 | Understanding Society | National | Pre-print (awaiting peer review) | Psychological distress; Mental health; Inequalities | Link to the paper |
| Clinical, regional, and genetic characteristics of Covid-19 patients from UK Biobank | 2020/11 | UK Biobank | National | Article | Ethnicity; Inequalities; Genetics | Link to the article |
| Mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic in two longitudinal UK population cohorts. | 2020/11 | Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children / Generation Scotland | Regional | Article | Mental health; Anxiety; Well-being | Link to the article |
| Problem drinking before and during the COVID-19 crisis in US and UK adults: Evidence from two population-based longitudinal studies | 2020/11 | Understanding Society | National | Article | Alcohol consumption; Mental health; Health behaviours | Link to the article |
| ‘Her whole little life has changed dramatically’ Findings of a qualitative study into children’s mental wellbeing in Bradford during Covid-19 | 2020/11 | Born in Bradford | Regional | Report | Mental health; Anxiety; Well being | Link to the report |
| Changing probability of experiencing food insecurity by socioeconomic and demographic groups during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK | 2020/11 | Understanding Society | National | Pre-print (awaiting peer review) | Food security; Inequalities; Unemployment | Link to the paper |
| Household composition, couples’ relationship quality, and social support during lockdown - Initial findings from the COVID-19 Survey in Five National Longitudinal Studies. | 2020/11 | Millennium Cohort Study; Next Steps; 1970 British Cohort Study; 1958 National Child Development Study; 1946 National Survey of Health and Development | National | Briefing paper | Household composition; Couples; Social support | Link to the paper |
| In their own words: five generations of Britons describe their experiences of the coronavirus pandemic. Initial findings from the COVID-19 Survey in Five National Longitudinal Studies | 2020/11 | Millennium Cohort Study; Next Steps; 1970 British Cohort Study; 1958 National Child Development Study; 1946 National Survey of Health and Development | National | Briefing paper | Social isolation; Mental health; Inequalities | Link to the paper |
| Understanding Society COVID-19 Survey Briefing Note: Social cohesion – what has changed during the coronavirus outbreak? | 2020/11 | Understanding Society | National | Briefing note | Social cohesion; Deprivation; Ethnic minorities | Link to the briefing note |
| Comparison of two different frailty measurements and risk of hospitalisation or death from COVID-19: findings from UK Biobank. | 2020/11 | UK Biobank | National | Article | Frailty; Lifestyle; Hospitalisation | Link to the article |
| Is older age associated with COVID-19 mortality in the absence of other risk factors? General population cohort study of 470,034 participants. | 2020/11 | UK Biobank | National | Article | Old age; Mortality; Comorbidities | Link to the article |
| Frailty and comorbidity in predicting community COVID-19 mortality in the UK Biobank: the effect of sampling | 2020/10 | UK Biobank | National | Pre-print (awaiting peer review) | Frailty; Comorbidity; Mortality | Link to the paper |
| Coming together or coming apart? Changes in social cohesion during the Covid-19 pandemic in England | 2020/10 | Understanding Society | National | Article | Social cohesion; Trust; Neighbourhoods | Link to the article |
| At the edge of the safety net: Unsuccessful benefits claims at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic | 2020/10 | Understanding Society | National | Report | Benefits claimants; Inequalities; Mental health | Link to the report |
| Experiences of lockdown during the Covid-19 pandemic: descriptive findings from a survey of families in the Born in Bradford study | 2020/10 | Born in Bradford | Regional | Pre-print (awaiting peer review) | Anxiety; Financial insecurity; Families | Link to the paper |
| Generation COVID: Emerging Work and Education Inequalities | 2020/10 | Understanding Society | National | Working paper | Unemployment; Learning; Generations | Link to the paper |
| Fare differently, feel differently: mental well-being of UK-born and foreign-born working men during the COVID-19 pandemic European Societies | 2020/10 | Understanding Society | National | Article | Mental health; Gender; Nationality | Link to the article |
| MPCs through COVID: spending, saving and private transfers | 2020/10 | Understanding Society | National | Working paper | Household finances; Consumption; Uncertainty | Link to the paper |
| Work, care and gender during the COVID-19 crisis | 2020/10 | Understanding Society | National | Discussion paper | Gender; Inequalities; Caring | Link to the paper |
| Trust in government and others during the COVID-19 pandemic - Initial findings from the COVID-19 Survey in Five National Longitudinal Studies. | 2020/10 | Millennium Cohort Study; Next Steps; 1970 British Cohort Study; 1958 National Child Development Study; 1946 National Survey of Health and Development | National | Briefing paper | Trust; Compliance; Social distancing | Link to the briefing paper |
| Carrying the work burden of the COVID-19 pandemic: working class women in the UK | 2020/10 | Understanding Society | National | Briefing Note | Gender; Class; Employment; Mental health | Link to the briefing note |
| Weather Affects Mobility but not Mental Well-being During Lockdown | 2020/10 | Understanding Society | National | Working paper | Weather; Lockdown; Mental Health | Link to the paper |
| Sociodemographic inequality in exposure to COVID-19-induced economic hardship in the United Kingdom | 2020/10 | Understanding Society | National | Article | Inequalities; Economic hardship; Earnings | Link to the article |
| Risk of Depression in Family Caregivers: Unintended Consequence of COVID-19 | 2020/10 | Understanding Society | National | Article | Depression; Family caregiving; Loneliness | Link to the paper |
| Half of children entitled to free school meals do not have access to the scheme during the COVID-19 lockdown in the UK | 2020/10 | Understanding Society | National | Article | Free school meals; Food insecurity; Poverty | Link to the paper |
| Greater risk of severe COVID-19 in Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic populations is not explained by cardiometabolic, socioeconomic or behavioural factors, or by 25(OH)-vitamin D status: study of 1326 cases from the UK Biobank | 2020/09 | UK Biobank | National | Article | Ethnicity; Socioeconomic disadvantage; Epidemiology | Link to the article |
| Financial consequences of the coronavirus pandemic for older people | 2020/09 | English Longitudinal Study of Ageing | National | Briefing Note | Older people; Financial circumstances; Unemployment | Link to the briefing note |
| The experience of older people instructed to shield or self-isolate during the COVID-19 pandemic | 2020/09 | English Longitudinal Study of Ageing | National | Briefing Note | Older people; Self-isolation; Mental health | Link to the briefing note |
| The experience of older people with multimorbidity during the COVID-19 pandemic | 2020/09 | English Longitudinal Study of Ageing | National | Briefing Note | Older people; Comorbidity; Health behaviours | Link to the briefing note |
| Changes in older people’s experiences of providing care and of volunteering during the COVID-19 pandemic | 2020/09 | English Longitudinal Study of Ageing | National | Briefing Note | Older people; Caring; Volunteering | Link to the briefing note |
| Mental health and health behaviours before and during the COVID-19 lockdown: Longitudinal analyses of the UK Household Longitudinal Study | 2020/09 | Understanding Society | National | Article | Mental health; Health behaviours; Psychological distress | Link to the article |
| Obesity as a risk factor for COVID-19 mortality in women and men in the UK Biobank: comparisons with influenza/pneumonia and coronary heart disease | 2020/09 | UK Biobank | National | Article | Obesity; Influenza; Comorbidity | Link to the article |
| Poor inhibitory control and stress as risk-factors for alcohol (mis)use during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK: a national cross-sectional study across four generations | 2020/09 | Millennium Cohort Study; Next Steps; 1970 British Cohort Study; 1958 National Child Development Study; 1946 National Survey of Health and Development | National | Pre-print (awaiting peer review) | Alcohol consumption; Stress; Health behaviours | Link to the paper |
| Genetic mechanisms of critical illness in Covid-19 | 2020/09 | Generation Scotland; UK Biobank | National | Pre-print (awaiting peer review) | Genetics; Comorbidity; Genomics | Link to the paper |
| The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children - A resource for COVID-19 research: Questionnaire data capture May-July 2020 | 2020/09 | Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children | Regional | Data note (awaiting peer review) | Cross-generation; Health; Well-being; Behaviour | Link to the Data note |
| Inequality in access to health and care services during lockdown - Findings from the COVID-19 survey in five UK national longitudinal studies | 2020/09 | Millennium Cohort Study; Next Steps; 1970 British Cohort Study; 1958 National Child Development Study; 1946 National Survey of Health and Development | National | Pre-print (awaiting peer review) | Access to health care; Inequalities; Public health | Link to the paper |
| The impact of asthma on mental health & wellbeing during COVID-19 lockdown | 2020/09 | Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children | Regional | Pre-print (awaiting peer review) | Asthma; Self-isolation; Mental health | Link to the paper |
| COVID-19: has the pandemic affected relationships between children and their non-resident parents? | 2020/09 | Understanding Society | National | Briefing Note | Separated families; Child maintenance; Parent-child relationships | Link to the briefing note |
| Changing living arrangements, family dynamics and stress during lockdown: evidence from four birth cohorts in the UK | 2020/09 | Understanding Society, Millennium Cohort Study; 1970 British Cohort Study; 1958 National Child Development Study; | National | Pre-print (awaiting peer review) | Living arrangements; Stress; Lockdown | Link to the paper |
| Occupation and risk of severe COVID-19: prospective cohort study of 120,075 UK Biobank | 2020/09 | UK Biobank | National | Pre-print (awaiting peer review) | Occupation; Inequalities; Health workers | Link to the paper |
| Prevalence and Predictors of General Psychiatric Disorders and Loneliness during COVID-19 in the United Kingdom: Results from the Understanding Society UKHLS | 2020/09 | Understanding Society | National | Article | Loneliness; Mental health; Inequalities | Link to the article |
| BMI and future risk for COVID-19 infection and death across sex, age and ethnicity: preliminary findings from UK biobank | 2020/09 | UK Biobank | National | Article | BMI; Physical health; Ethnicity | Link to the paper |
| Mental health and health behaviours before and during the COVID-19 lockdown: Longitudinal analyses of the UK Household Longitudinal Study. | 2020/09 | Understanding Society | National | Article | Mental health; Health behaviours; Psychological distress | Link to the paper |
| Who is lonely in lockdown? Cross-cohort analyses of predictors of loneliness before and during the COVID-19 pandemic | 2020/09 | Understanding Society | National | Article | Cross-cohort; Loneliness; Inequalities | Link to the article |
| All together now? The impacts of the Government’s coronavirus income support schemes across the age distribution | 2020/09 | Understanding Society | National | Briefing note | Household income; Financial support; Social security | Link to the briefing note |
| Risk factors for positive and negative COVID-19 tests: a cautious and in-depth analysis of UK biobank data | 2020/08 | UK Biobank | National | Article | Risk factors; Ethnicity; Disadvantage | Link to the article |
| Longitudinal evidence for persistent anxiety in young adults through COVID-19 restrictions | 2020/08 | Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children | Regional | Pre-print (awaiting peer review) | Anxiety; Lockdown; Adolescents | Link to the paper |
| Gender differences in the impact of the Covid-19 lockdown on unpaid care work and psychological distress in the UK | 2020/08 | Understanding Society | National | Pre-print (awaiting peer review) | Lockdown; Gender inequalities; Unpaid care work | Link to the paper |
| SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) infection in pregnant women: characterization of symptoms and syndromes predictive of disease and severity through real-time, remote participatory epidemiology | 2020/08 | TwinsUK | National | Pre-print (awaiting peer review) | Pregnancy; Epidemiology; Comorbidity | Link to the paper |
| Association of obesity and its genetic predisposition with the risk of severe COVID-19: Analysis of population-based cohort data | 2020/08 | UK Biobank | National | Article | Obesity; Genetics; Epidemiology | Link to the article |
| Excess cardiovascular deaths in the beginning of COVID-19 outbreak | 2020/08 | UK Biobank | National | Pre-print (awaiting peer review) | Cardiovascular disease; Mortality; Hospitalization | Link to the paper |
| Vitamin D and COVID-19 infection and mortality in UK Biobank | 2020/08 | UK Biobank | National | Article | Vitamin D; Mortality; Inequalities | Link to the article |
| Genetically-predicted vitamin D status, ambient UVB during the pandemic and COVID-19 risk in UK Biobank: Mendelian Randomisation study | 2020/08 | UK Biobank | National | Pre-print (awaiting peer review) | Vitamin D; Genetics; Seasonality | Link to the paper |
| The Born in Bradford COVID-19 Research Study: Protocol for an adaptive mixed methods research study to gather actionable intelligence on the impact of COVID-19 on health inequalities amongst families living in Bradford | 2020/08 | Born in Bradford | Regional | Article | Health inequalities; Deprivation; Ethnicity; Methodology | Link to the paper |
| Who is left behind? Altruism of giving, happiness and mental health during the Covid-19 period in the UK | 2020/08 | Understanding Society | National | Pre-print (awaiting peer review) | Altruism; Mental health; Happiness | Link to the paper |
| What can previous recessions tell us about the Covid-19 downturn? | 2020/08 | Understanding Society | National | Working paper | Recession; Unemployment; Inequalities | Link to the paper |
| Estrogen and COVID-19 symptoms: associations in women from the COVID Symptom Study | 2020/08 | Twins UK/Symptom Study | National | Pre-print (awaiting peer review) | Estrogen; Women; Menopause | Link to the paper |
| TeenCovidLife Survey 1 General Report Health and wellbeing of young people in lockdown | 2020/08 | Generation Scotland | Devolved Nations | Report | Young people; Well being; Stress | Link to the report |
| Working parents, financial insecurity, and child-care: mental health in the time of COVID-19 | 2020/08 | Understanding Society | National | Discussion paper | Mental health; Child care; Financial insecurity | Link to the paper |
| Mental health during lockdown: evidence from four generations - Initial findings from the COVID-19 Survey in Five National Longitudinal Studies | 2020/08 | Millennium Cohort Study; Next Steps; 1970 British Cohort Study; 1958 National Child Development Study; 1946 National Survey of Health and Development | National | Briefing Note | Mental health; Generations; Inequalities | Link to the briefing note |
| Intersecting ethnic and native–migrant inequalities in the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK | 2020/08 | Understanding Society | National | Article | Ethnicity; Socioeconomic status; Inequalities | Link to the article |
| Ethnic differences in effects of COVID-19: household and local context | 2020/08 | Understanding Society | National | Briefing Note | Ethnicity; Mental health; Neighbourhood cohesion | Link to the briefing note |
| Dynamic linkage of COVID-19 test results between Public Health England's Second Generation Surveillance System and UK Biobank | 2020/07 | UK Biobank | National | Article | Epidemiology; Genetics; Microbiology | Link to the article |
| Preexisting Comorbidities Predicting COVID-19 and Mortality in the UK Biobank Community Cohort | 2020/07 | UK Biobank | National | Article | Comorbidity; Mortality; Epidemiology | Link to the article |
| Estimates of the rate of infection and asymptomatic COVID-19 disease in a population sample from SE England | 2020/07 | Twins UK | Regional | Pre-print (awaiting peer review) | Symptomology; Serology; Antibodies | Link to the paper |
| Changes in the behavioural determinants of health during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic: gender, socioeconomic and ethnic inequalities in 5 British cohort studies | 2020/07 | Millennium Cohort Study; Next Steps; 1970 British Cohort Study; 1958 National Child Development Study; 1946 National Survey of Health and Development | National | Pre-print (awaiting peer review) | Health behaviour; Gender; Inequalities | Link to the paper |
| Learning inequalities during the Covid-19 pandemic: how families cope with home-schooling | 2020/07 | Understanding Society | National | Working Paper | Home schooling; Family structure; Socioeconomic disadvantage | Link to the report |
| Coronavirus and the impact on caring | 2020/07 | Understanding Society | National | Report | Caring; Support; Well being | Link to the report |
| Finances and employment during lockdown - Initial findings from the COVID-19 Survey in Five National Longitudinal Studies | 2020/07 | Millennium Cohort Study; Next Steps; 1970 British Cohort Study; 1958 National Child Development Study; 1946 National Survey of Health and Development | National | Briefing Note | Financial circumstances; Employment; Self-employed workers | Link to the briefing note |
| Parental involvement in home schooling and developmental play during lockdown - Initial findings from the COVID19 Survey in Five National Longitudinal Studies | 2020/07 | Millennium Cohort Study; Next Steps; 1970 British Cohort Study; 1958 National Child Development Study; 1946 National Survey of Health and Development | National | Briefing Note | Home schooling; Child development; Parenting | Link to the briefing note |
| The Effect of the Great Lockdown on Homeworking in the United Kingdom | 2020/07 | Understanding Society | National | Report | Home working; Employment; Well being | Link to the report |
| Mental health before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal probability sample survey of the UK population | 2020/07 | Understanding Society | National | Article | Mental health; Inequalities; Employment | Link to the article |
| Sleepless in Lockdown: unpacking differences in sleep loss during the coronavirus pandemic in the UK | 2020/07 | Understanding Society | National | Pre-print (awaiting peer review) | Sleep loss; Ethnicity; Well-being | Link to the paper |
| Estimating Variation of Covid-19 infection in the Population:Results from Understanding Society (UKHLS) first monthly covid-19 survey | 2020/07 | Understanding Society | National | Pre-print (awaiting peer review) | Infection rates; Ethnicity; Regional disparities | Link to the paper |
| Home learning during Covid-19: Findings from the Understanding Society Longitudinal Study | 2020/07 | Understanding Society | National | Report | Home schooling; Inequalities; Ethnicity | Link to the report |
| Diagnostic value of skin manifestation of SARS-CoV-2 infection | 2020/07 | COVID Symptom Tracker | National | Pre-print (awaiting peer review) | Symptomology; Skin rashes; Hospitalization | Link to the paper |
| Race, socioeconomic deprivation, and hospitalization for COVID-19 in English participants of a national biobank | 2020/07 | UK Biobank | National | Article | Ethnicity; Socioeconomic status; Hospitalization | Link to the article |
| Vitamin D concentrations and COVID-19 infection in UK Biobank | 2020/07 | UK Biobank | National | Article | Vitamin D; Ethnicity; Inequalities | Link to the article |
| Living in poverty was bad for your health before COVID-19 | 2020/07 | Understanding Society | National | Working paper | Poverty; Inequalities; Public health | Link to the paper |
| Ethnicity and COVID-19 infection: are the pieces of the puzzle falling into place? | 2020/07 | UK Biobank | National | Commentary | Ethnicity; Inequalities; Deprivation | Link to the commentary |
| Intersecting household level health and socio-economic vulnerabilities and the COVID-19 crisis: an analysis from the UK | 2020/07 | Understanding Society | National | Article | Health inequalities; Household types; Employment | Link to the article |
| How has the Covid-19 crisis impacted parents’ relationships with their children? | 2020/07 | Understanding Society | National | Policy briefing | Parenting; Inequalities; Family composition | Link to the briefing |
| Cut hours, not people: no work, furlough, short hours and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK | 2020/07 | Understanding Society | National | Working paper | Working hours; Mental health; Unemployment | Link to the paper |
| Understanding Society COVID-19 Survey May Briefing Note: Family relationships | 2020/07 | Understanding Society | National | Briefing note | Parenting; Home schooling; Inequalities | Link to the note |
| The mental health impact of COVID-19 and pandemic related stressors among adults in the UK | 2020/07 | Understanding Society | National | Pre-print (awaiting peer review) | Mental health; Living conditions; Work | Link to the paper |
| The gender gap in mental well-being during the Covid-19 outbreak: evidence from the UK | 2020/06 | Understanding Society | National | Working paper | Mental health; Gender; Loneliness | Link to the paper |
| Ethnic disparities in hospitalisation for COVID-19 in England: The role of socioeconomic factors, mental health, and inflammatory and pro-inflammatory factors in a community-based cohort study | 2020/06 | UK Biobank | National | Article | Ethnicity; Mental health; Hospitalization | Link to the article |
| The mental health effects of the first two months of lockdown and social distancing during the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK | 2020/06 | Understanding Society | National | Working paper | Mental health; Inequalities; Age groups | Link to the paper |
| Inequalities in home learning and schools’ provision of distance teaching during school closure of COVID-19 lockdown in the UK | 2020/06 | Understanding Society | National | Working paper | Home schooling; inequalities; ethnicity | Link to the paper |
| The effects of coronavirus on household finances and financial distress | 2020/06 | Understanding Society | National | Briefing note | Household finances; Financial distress; Earnings | Link to the briefing note |
| Did the UK policy response to Covid-19 protect household incomes? | 2020/06 | Understanding Society | National | Working paper | Household income; Employment; Earnings | Link to the paper |
| COVID-19 Survey Briefing Note: Health and caring | 2020/06 | Understanding Society | National | Briefing note | Mental health; Health behaviours; Caring | Link to the briefing note |
| COVID-19 Survey Briefing Note: Home schooling | 2020/06 | Understanding Society | National | Briefing note | Education; Household resources; Parenting | Link to the briefing note |
| ALSPAC COVID-19 Questionnaire data (April-May 2020) | 2020/06 | Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children | Regional | Data note (awaiting peer review) | Cross-generation; Health; Well-being; Behaviour | Link to the Data note |
| Longitudinal changes in mental health and the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from the UK Household Longitudinal Study. | 2020/06 | Understanding Society | National | Pre-print (awaiting peer review) | Mental health; Well-being; Demographic groups | Link to the paper |
| Gender inequalities: changes in income, time use and well-being before and during the UK COVID-19 lockdown | 2020/06 | Understanding Society | National | Pre-print (awaiting peer review) | Gender; Inequalities; Well-being; Time use | Link to the paper |
| COVID-19 and associations with frailty and multimorbidity: a prospective analysis of UK Biobank participants | 2020/06 | UK Biobank | National | Pre-print (awaiting peer review) | Frailty; Multimorbidity; Epidemiology | Link to the paper |
| Ethnicity, comorbidity, socioeconomic status, and their associations with COVID-19 infection in England: a cohort analysis of UK Biobank data | 2020/06 | UK Biobank | National | Pre-print (awaiting peer review) | Epidemiology; Inequalities; Ethnicity | Link to the paper |
| The idiosyncratic impact of an aggregate shock: the distributional consequences of COVID-19 | 2020/06 | Understanding Society | National | Working paper | Economic shocks; Social security; Earnings | Link to the paper |
| Older and ‘staying at home’ during lockdown: informal care receipt during the COVID-19 pandemic amongst people aged 70 and over in the UK | 2020/06 | Understanding Society | National | Pre-print (awaiting peer review) | Older people; Household composition; Care needs | Link to the paper |
| The COVID-19 Pandemic and its Impact on Inequality of Opportunity in Psychological Distress in the UK | 2020/05 | Understanding Society | National | Pre-print (awaiting peer review) | Psychological distress; Occupation; Inequalities | Link to the paper |
| Obesity and risk of COVID-19: analysis of UK biobank | 2020/05 | UK Biobank | National | Article | Obesity; Health behaviours; BMI | Link to the article |
| COVID-19 Survey Briefing Note: The Economic Effects | 2020/05 | Understanding Society | National | Briefing note | Economics; Employment; Earnings | Link to the briefing note |
| Real-time tracking of self-reported symptoms to predict potential COVID-19. | 2020/05 | Twins UK | National | Article | Medicine; Epidemiology; Symptomology | Link to the article |
| Rapid implementation of mobile technology for real-time epidemiology of COVID-19. | 2020/05 | Twins UK | National | Article | Epidemiology; Public health; Mobile technology | Link to the article |
| Lifestyle risk factors, inflammatory mechanisms, and COVID-19 hospitalization: A community-based cohort study of 387,109 adults in UK. | 2020/05 | UK Biobank | National | Article | Health behaviours; Inequalities; Obesity | Link to the article |
| Ethnic and socioeconomic differences in SARS-CoV-2 infection: prospective cohort study using UK Biobank. | 2020/05 | UK Biobank | National | Article | Health behaviours; Inequalities; Ethnicity | Link to the article |
| Generation Scotland CovidLife Survey First Report | 2020/05 | Generation Scotland | Devolved Nations | Report | Employment; Well-being; Mental health | Link to the report |
| Current tobacco smoking and risk from COVID-19: results from a population symptom app in over 2.4 million people | 2020/05 | TwinsUK / COVID Symptom Tracker | National | Pre-print (awaiting peer review) | Symptoms; Smoking; Epidemiology | Link to the paper |
| Self-reported symptoms of covid-19 including symptoms most predictive of SARS-CoV-2 infection, are heritable | 2020/04 | TwinsUK | National | Pre-print (awaiting peer review) | Symptoms; Heritability; Public health | Link to the paper |
| Geo-social gradients in predicted COVID-19 prevalence and severity in Great Britain: results from 2,266,235 users of the COVID-19 Symptoms Tracker app | 2020/04 | COVID Symptom Tracker | National | Pre-print (awaiting peer review) | Inequalities; Public health; Deprivation | Link to the paper |
