Southampton Women's Survey COVID-19 Study (SWS_COVID-19)

A Survey of Southampton Women's Survey Women's and Offspring's Health and Wellbeing During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Lockdown.

The current COVID-19 pandemic has brought many challenges with implications for wellbeing and mental health. The Southampton Women's Survey provides the opportunity to understand influences on these important outcomes amongst women and their offspring in the context of an established longitudinal cohort study.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Mental Health Wellness 1
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Experience of pandemic

Detailed Description

Between 1998 and 2002 the Southampton Women's Survey (SWS) team interviewed 12,583 Southampton women aged 20 to 34 years. The baseline survey collected data on women's diets, lifestyles, body and blood measures, reproductive health, education, mental health and social circumstances. Of these participants, 3,158 women subsequently became pregnant within the study period and delivered a liveborn singleton infant. The survey has followed up the offspring and mothers with home visits at six months, one, two and three years. A sample of over 1,000 offspring was seen at 4 years of age, more than 2,000 offspring were seen at ages 6-7 years, and more than 1,000 at 8-9 years. Follow-up of offspring aged 11-13 years is being completed and at 17-19 years is being piloted.

The women are currently aged 37 to 57 years and the offspring are currently aged 12 to 21 years.

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unique challenges across the population. The effects include those of the threat of the virus itself as well as the impact of the government-imposed lockdown on health and wellbeing. Research in many contexts will allow greater understanding of the repercussions of this unprecedented event. The Southampton Women's Survey provides an opportunity to understand the effects of the lockdown on a well-characterised cohort of women and their adolescent/young adult offspring. The longitudinal data available in the cohort will provide a unique opportunity to understand how circumstances earlier in life (including pre-pregnancy) influence people's health and wellbeing during the pandemic.

Objectives:

1. To collect individual level data relating to health and wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic amongst SWS women and their offspring.
2. To assess whether lockdown-specific pressures such as working from home, home schooling and lack of social contact are associated with health and wellbeing during the pandemic.
3. To use longitudinal data to understand how health and lifestyle in earlier life (including pre-pregnancy) are associated with health and wellbeing during the pandemic.

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 832

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United Kingdom
  • Southampton, United Kingdom, SO16 6YD
    • MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 12 years to 57 years (Child, Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Between 1998 and 2002 the Southampton Women's Survey team interviewed 12,583 Southampton women aged 20 to 34 years. Of these participants, 3,158 women subsequently became pregnant within the study period and delivered a liveborn singleton infant.

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Women with offspring born in the Southampton Women's Survey (original project)
• Offspring born in the Southampton Women's Survey (original project)

Exclusion Criteria:

• anyone who was not a part of the original project

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Mental Health in women	General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) - higher score more severe condition	3 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Mental Health in offspring	Warwick Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale (WEMWBS) - higher score describes better mental health	3 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Southampton
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Keith Godfrey, BM, PhD,FRCP, Professor of Human Development and Health

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): February 15, 2021
• Primary Completion (Actual): August 1, 2021
• Study Completion (Actual): August 1, 2021

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: October 15, 2020
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: December 11, 2020
• First Posted (Actual): December 14, 2020

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): October 4, 2021
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 1, 2021
• Last Verified: October 1, 2021

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: 56780

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: UNDECIDED

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No