COVID-19 Snapshot Monitoring in Canada (COSMO Canada): Monitoring Citizens’ Perceptions, Knowledge, and Behaviours relating to the Pandemic (Part II)

From April 2020 to December 2021, Privy Council Office (PCO) led the implementation of the COVID-19 Snapshot Monitoring (COSMO) Study Phase 1 which longitudinally captured respondents’ perceptions, knowledge, and behaviours in response to the pandemic. The COSMO Study Phase 1 was founded on a comprehensive survey developed by the World Health Organization (WHO), released to assist countries in quickly establishing a data collection mechanism to track the evolving response context related to COVID-19 at the citizen-level. It has enabled PCO to contribute evidence-based, behaviourally-informed insights and recommendations to public communication materials, policy and programmatic considerations, and whole-of-government decision-making related to the Government of Canada’s broader response effort. The first phase of the study collected data across sixteen waves spanning April 2020 to November 2021. This protocol details the COSMO Study’s second Phase, which will continue to monitor the evolving pandemic response context with a new sample of Canadians (including a flexible oversample of diverse sub-segments of the population) and a restructured survey body exploring new thematic areas related to reintegration and recovery. unknown other