Physical Health of Adults during Covid-19

Background

This dataset is one of the studies of the Corona Health project. It addresses how the physical health and habits of adults during the global pandemic changed over time. It consists of two questionnaires, a baseline questionnaire and a bi-weekly follow up questionnaire to track the behaviour in the last 14 days. The whole datasets contains more than 1800 users (98 % of them German) and a total of 7000 questionnaires. For some users, it also has GPS and app usage data.

Files

rki_heart_baseline.csv -> The baseline questionnaire, containing demographic data as well

rki_heart_followup.csv -> The follow-up questionnaire

answersheets.csv -> The unprocessed answersheets from both, baseline and follow-up questionnaires in a raw format.

codebook.xlsx -> The Codebook that describes the three files in detail

More information

Key Facts

No. of questionnaires: 1805 Baseline + 5895 Follow-up

n Tracking Consent GPS (ratio): 1366 (75%)

n Tracking Consent App Usage (ratio): 101 (5.6%)

Sociodemographics

Age, mean (SD): 41.7 (15.1)

Gender Ratio:

Male: 36%

Female: 64%

Diverse: 0%

Body Mass Index, mean (SD): 26.7 (6.23)

Users located in Germany (ratio): 98.7%

Lifestyle habits at baseline

Daily Smokers (ratio): 292 (16.2%)

Daily fruit consumers before lockdown (ratio): 533 (29.5%)

Daily fruit consumers after lockdown (ratio): 538 (29.8%)

Daily vegetable consumers before lockdown (ratio): 562 (31.1%)

Daily vegetable consumers after lockdown (ratio): 559 (31.0%)

Cardiovascular Health at baseline

History of hypertension (ratio): 454 (25.2%)

History of diabetes mellitus (ratio): 113 (6.3%)

History of hyperlipidemia (ratio): 461 (25.5%)

For a more detailed description of the dataset, please go on GitHub/joa24jm/ch-heart. There, you can also find a link to our publication.