The Coronavirus Health and Impact Survey (CRISIS) reveals reproducible correlates of pandemic-related mood states across the Atlantic

• DOI: 10.1101/2020.08.24.20181123
• Publication Date: 2020-08-28T08:26:54Z
• Authors: Aki Nikolaidis; Diana Paksarian; Lindsay Alexander; Jacob Derosa; Julia Dunn; Dylan M. Nielson; Irene Droney; Minji Kang; Ioanna Douka; Evelyn Bromet; Michael Milham; Argyris Stringaris; Kathleen R. Merik...
• Keywords: Pandemic

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic and its social economic consequences have had adverse impacts on physical mental health worldwide exposed all segments of the population to protracted uncertainty daily disruptions. CoRonavIruS Impact Survey (CRISIS) was developed for use as an easy implement robust questionnaire covering key domains relevant distress resilience during pandemic. In current work, we demonstrate feasibility, psychometric structure construct validity this survey. We then show that pre-existing mood states, perceived COVID risk, lifestyle changes are strongly associated with negative states in samples adults parents reporting their children US UK. Ongoing studies using CRISIS include international COVID-related ill conducted different phases follow-up cohorts characterized before