Summary information
Study title
COVID-19: Supporting Parents, Adolescents and Children during Epidemics (Co-SPACE), 2020-2023
Creator
Waite, P., University of Oxford
Creswell, C., University of Oxford, Department of Experimental Psychology
Skripkauskaite, S., University of Oxford, Department of Experimental Psychology
Study number / PID
8900 (UKDA)
10.5255/UKDA-SN-8900-2 (DOI)
Data access
Restricted
Series
Not available
Abstract
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The COVID-19 pandemic has caused major disruptions to families' lives in many ways, including through lockdowns, social distancing, home learning requirements, and restrictions. This resulted in a rapidly changing situation where different pressures have arisen for children, young people and their families over time. Understanding the psychological effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on children and young people, through the collection of high quality data and in a way that could directly inform policy, was set out as an immediate research priority in a Lancet position paper (Holmes et al., 2020) at the start of the pandemic. The Co-SPACE study was launched on 30th March 2020, a week after the first national lockdown was implemented in the UK, with the purpose of using the findings to inform resources and support for families. It was then extended in 2022 under the project on 'Learning from the trajectories of mental health challenges for children, young people and parents over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic' in collaboration with the CORONA x CODOMO project in Japan (run by Dr Naho Morisaki at the National Center for Child Health and Development).
The Co-SPACE project aimed to:
track participating children and young people’s mental health throughout the COVID-19 crisis,
identify what protects children and young people from deteriorating mental health (over time, and at particular stress points),
determine how this varies according to child, family and environmental characteristics.
The Co-SPACE study, overall, involved an online longitudinal survey completed monthly from March 2020 to July 2021 by (i) UK-based parents/carers of children and young people (aged 4-16 years, at the start of the study), and (ii) their children (if aged 11-16 years, at the start of the study). Additional, longer-term follow-ups were then completed 6-monthly in March/April 2022, October 2022, and March/April 2023...
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Keywords
Methodology
Data collection period
30/03/2020 - 24/04/2023
Country
United Kingdom, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, England
Time dimension
Longitudinal/panel/cohort
Time Series
Analysis unit
Individuals
Families/households
National
Universe
9,204 parents/carers of school-aged children and young people aged 4-16 years (at the beginning of the study), 2020-2023.
Sampling procedure
Volunteer sample
Kind of data
Numeric
Data collection mode
Self-administered questionnaire: Computer-assisted (CASI)
Funding information
Grant number
n/a
Grant number
ES/V004034/1
Grant number
ES/W011972/1
Access
Publisher
UK Data Service
Publication year
2022
Terms of data access
The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the End User Licence Agreement.
Access is limited to applicants based in HE/FE institutions, for not-for-profit education and research purposes only.
Related publications
- Creswell, C., Shum, A., Pearcey, S., Skripkauskaite, S., Patalay, P., & Waite, P. (2021). Young people's mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, 5(8), 535-537.
- Raw, J.A.L., Waite, P., Pearcey, S., Shum, A., Patalay, P. and Creswell, C. (2021), Examining changes in parent-reported child and adolescent mental health throughout the UK's first COVID-19 national lockdown. J Child Psychol Psychiatr, 62: 1391-1401.
- Waite, P., Pearcey, S., Shum, A., Raw, J. A., Patalay, P., & Creswell, C. (2021). How did the mental health symptoms of children and adolescents change over early lockdown during the COVID‐19 pandemic in the UK?. JCPP Advances, 1(1), e12009.
- Waite, P., & Creswell, C. (2020). Report 01: Findings from the first 1500 participants on parent/carer stress and child activity. Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.
- Shum, A., Pearcey, S., Waite, P., & Creswell, C. (2020). Child activity during the first UK lockdown (Supplementary Report 01). Co-SPACE study.
- Waite, P., Patalay, P., Moltrecht, B., McElroy, E., & Creswell, C. (2020). Report 02: Covid-19 worries, parent/carer stress and support needs, by child special educational needs and parent/carer work status. Co-SPACE study, UK.
- : Pearcey, S., Shum, A., Raw, J., Waite, P., & Creswell, C. (2020). Report 03: Parents/carers report on their own and their children’s concerns about children attending school. Co-SPACE study.
- Shum, A., Pearcey, S., Waite, P., & Creswell, C. (2020). Child activity during the first UK lockdown (Supplementary Report 02). Co-SPACE study
- Pearcey, S., Shum, A., Waite, P., & Creswell, C. (2020). Supplementary Report 03. Co-SPACE study
- Pearcey, S., Shum, A., Waite, P., Patalay, P., & Creswell, C. (2020). Report 04: Changes in Children and Young People’s Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties Through Lockdown, CO-SPACE Study.
- Pearcey, S., Shum, A., Waite, P., & Creswell, C. (2020). Supplementary Report 04. Co-SPACE study
- Shum, A., Pearcey, S., Waite, P., & Creswell, C. (2020). Parents/carers report on their own and their children’s concerns about children attending school (Supplementary Report 05). Co-SPACE study.
- Pearcey, S., Shum, A., Waite, P., Patalay, P., & Creswell, C. (2020). Report 05: Changes in Children and Young People’s Mental Health Symptoms and ‘Caseness’ During Lockdown and Patterns Associated with Key Demographic Factors, CO-SPACE study.
- Shum, A., Pearcey, S., Waite, P., & Creswell, C. (2020). Young people’s concerns about the return to school (Parent and Self-report) (Supplementary Report 06). Co-SPACE study.
- Pearcey, S., Raw, J., Shum, A., Waite, P., & Creswell, C. (2020). Regular communication with friends outside the household during full lockdown and in the following months when restrictions were eased. (Supplementary Report 07). Co-SPACE study
- Pearcey, S., Raw, J., Shum, A., Waite, P., & Creswell, C. (2020). Parent and child concerns about attending school.. (Supplementary Report 08). Co-SPACE study
- Skripkauskaite, S., Pearcey, S., Raw, J., Shum, A., Waite, P., & Creswell, C. (2020). Report 06: Changes in children and young people’s mental health symptoms from March to October 2020. Co-SPACE study.
- Shum, A., Skripkauskaite, S., Pearcey, S., Raw, J., Waite, P., & Creswell, C. (2021). Report 07: Changes in parents' mental health symptoms and stressors from April to December 2020. University of Oxford Co-Space Study.
- Skripkauskaite, S., Shum, A., Pearcey, S., Raw, J., Waite, P., & Creswell, C. (2021). Report 08: Changes in children’s and young people’s mental health symptoms: March 2020 to January 2021. Co-SPACE study.
- Shum, A., Skripkauskaite, S., Pearcey, S., Waite, P., & Creswell, C. (2021). Report 09: Update on children’s & parents/carers’ mental health; Changes in parents/carers’ ability to balance childcare and work: March 2020 to February 2021. Co-SPACE study, University of Oxford, University College London
- Shum, A., Skripkauskaite, S., Pearcey, S., Waite, P., & Creswell, C. (2021). Report 10: Children and adolescents’ mental health: One year in the pandemic. University of Oxford: Co-SPACE (Covid-19: Supporting Parents, Adolescents and Children during Epidemics).
- Skripkauskaite, S., Shum, A., Pearcey, S., McCall, A., Waite, P., & Creswell, C. (2021). Report11: Changes in children’s mental health symptoms from March 2020 to June 2021. Co-SPACE study.
- Waite, P., Dr, Creswell, C., & Patalay, P. (2020). Co-SPACE (Covid-19: Supporting Parents, Adolescents and Children during Epidemics).
- Charles, S. J., Martin, J. A., Runicles, A., Chi, Z., Robertson, K., Barker, E. D., ... & Tye, C. (2022). Rare neurogenetic conditions and mental health of families during COVID-19.
- Burgess, L., Skripkauskaite, S., Waite, P., & Creswell, C. (2022). Children’s mental health symptoms two years after the start of the pandemic: March 2020 to March 2022 (Report 12): Co-SPACE study.
- Ding, N., Skripkauskaite, S., Waite, P., & Creswell, C. (2023). Changes in children’s mental health and parents’ financial stress from March 2020 to October 2022 (Report 13). Co-Space Study.
- Guzman Holst, C., Bowes, L., Waite, P., Skripkauskaite, S., Shum, A., Pearcey, S., ... & Creswell, C. (2023). Examining Children and adolescent mental health trajectories during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Findings from a year of the Co‐SPACE study. JCPP advances, 3(2), e12153.
- Skripkauskaite, S., Creswell, C., Shum, A., Pearcey, S., Lawrence, P., Dodd, H., & Waite, P. (2023). Changes in UK parental mental health symptoms over 10 months of the COVID‐19 pandemic. JCPP advances, 3(2), e12139.
- Guzman Holst, C., Oncioiu, S. I., Creswell, C., & Bowes, L. (2023). What Happens to Children’s Mental Health and Peer Relationships During Periods of Restricted and Unrestricted Social Interactions? Results From the Co-SPACE Study in Primary School-Aged Children. JAACAP Open, 1(2), 128-140.
- Hall, C.L., Partlett, C., Valentine, A.Z. et al. Understanding the Impact of Home Confinement on Children and Young People with ADHD and ASD During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Child Psychiatry Hum Dev 55, 1279–1293 (2024).
- Robertson, O., Skripkauskaite, S., Creswell, C. et al. (2024). Validation of the Parent-report Pandemic Anxiety Scale (PAS-P) in the context of COVID-19. Curr Psychol 43, 32539–32551.
- Oakes, M., Burgess, L. C. H., Waite, P., Creswell, C., & Skripkauskaite, S. (2024). Understanding bidirectional and transactional relations in parent and offspring mental health: Using COVID-19 pandemic data to gain insights. center for open science.