COVID-19 Coping Study

The COVID-19 Coping Study is a national, longitudinal cohort study of 6,938 US adults aged ≥55 enrolled from April 2nd through May 31st, 2020 in all 50 US states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Participants were recruited through a non-probability multi-frame sampling strategy, and completed data collection through online questionnaires administered via the University of Michigan Qualtrics in English (N=6,886) and Spanish (N=52). Data were collected on a variety of demographic, social, and health-related topics including COVID-19 symptom and testing history, COVID-19-related stressors and worries, self-isolation and social distancing practices, behavior changes and coping mechanisms, mental health symptom scales, and living arrangements. A sub-set of the baseline sample (N=4,401) were sent monthly follow-up questionnaires over the following 12 months. The included files contain baseline through 12-month of follow-up data from the COVID-19 Coping Study. Data are available in Stata (C19CS.dta), a CSV file with value labels (C19CS Labelled.csv), and a CSV file with numeric values (C19CS Numeric.csv). Open-ended questionnaire responses are not included in the data files, and the text for the open-ended questions is struck out in the PDF documentation of the monthly questionnaires.