COVID-Mind: Mental Health during Covid-19 (360G-Wellcome-221400_Z_20_Z)

This proposal is for the establishment of an international mental health research network for Covid-19 and the running of a UK mixed-methods mental health study. The proposed network will have three core aims: \- To support the establishment of high-quality longitudinal studies in countries internationally exploring the effects of Covid-19 on mental health \- To enable international collaboration in longitudinal data analysis to understand cross-cultural differences in the mental health effects of Covid-19 \- To catalogue and disseminate other quantitative and qualitative mental health research on Covid-19 We will also lead a large-scale UK concurrent mixed methods study comprising a longitudinal study and a qualitative interview study to provide high quality, rigorous scientific data on the mental health impact of Covid-19 in the UK. This study is already underway and has 5 core aims: \- To understand the psychological and social impact of Covid-19 \- To map how the psychosocial impact evolves over time as social isolation measures get stricter and once measures are relaxed \- To ascertain which groups are at greatest risk of adverse effects on their mental health \- To explore the interaction between psychosocial impact and adherence to healthy and protective behaviours \- To identify activities during isolation that could buffer against adverse effects