Project
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Funded by UK Research and Innovation.
Collaboration with Generations Working Together, Scottish Government - Office of Chief Economic Advisor, Scottish Government - Social Security Scotland, Tec Enabled Care in Scotland and University of Edinburgh.
HAGIS: The COVID-19 Impact and Recovery Study
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has impacted everyone in some way. The HAGIS: COVID-19 Impact and Recovery study is exploring how concerns linked to COVID-19 have impacted the way people aged 50+ live in Scotland. Specifically, our study explores how the spectrum of COVID-19 concern manifests in older people, and how it impacts on their social, health and economic behaviours.
We anticipate COVID-19 fear to affect individuals, intergenerational relationships, and society in myriad ways including:
(1) social isolation due to reservations around meeting others or engaging in pre-COVID activities;
(2) poorer health and well-being due to i) reluctance to engage with medical professionals for fear of contracting COVID-19, or ii) over-zealous self-referral due to high health anxiety;
(3) weakened economic recovery due to changing consumption and work patterns;
(4) greater income and health inequality due to differential impacts by level of deprivation and by place.
Our study will close knowledge gaps relating to these potential consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. This mixed-methods study will address these using our validated COVID-19 fear survey instrument, a large-scale survey, interviews with older people and professionals working in the social care, healthcare and third sector. This approach enables decomposition of responses to COVID-19 fear by socio-economic disadvantage and by place, helping satisfy an urgent need to understand the pandemic’s effects on inequality, intergenerational connections and on economic geography.
Total award value £575,340.00
Associate Professor, Dementia and Ageing
Professor, Dementia and Ageing
Professor, Economics
Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Psychology
Article
Arakelyan S, Brown T, McCabe L, McGregor L, Comerford D, Dawson A, Bell D, Douglas C, Houston J & Douglas E (2023) The social, health and economic impact of COVID-19 – Healthy Ageing In Scotland (HAGIS): a protocol for a mixed-methods study. BMJ Open, 13 (2), Art. No.: e061427. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-061427
Research Report
Home Working In Scotland During And After The Pandemic Prevalence Experiences And Preferences
Comerford D, Duggan A, Bell D & Douglas E (2022) Home Working In Scotland During And After The Pandemic Prevalence Experiences And Preferences [HAGIS COVID-19 AND YOU: IMPACT AND RECOVERY STUDY]. UKRI. Stirling. https://www.hagis.scot/_files/ugd/5d9fd0_e35fd755cdb84ebc945dc6548771ec16.pdf
Research Report
Covid Fear And Life Satisfaction
Bell D (2022) Covid Fear And Life Satisfaction [HAGIS COVID-19 and You Study]. Douglas E (Project Leader) UKRI. Stirling. https://www.hagis.scot/_files/ugd/5d9fd0_3c773fdbb4b34a46b4d67be374a41c17.pdf
Research Report
Expectations After And During The Pandemic
Comerford D, Houston J, Duggan A, Bell D & Douglas E (2022) Expectations After And During The Pandemic [HAGIS COVID-19 AND YOU: IMPACT AND RECOVERY STUDY]. UKRI. Stirling. https://www.hagis.scot/_files/ugd/5d9fd0_edfb240231634b77bc0430f87b366ea4.pdf
Research Report
Health Service Engagement In Scotland During And After The Pandemic
McGregor L, Brown T & Douglas E (2022) Health Service Engagement In Scotland During And After The Pandemic [HAGIS COVID-19 AND YOU: IMPACT AND RECOVERY STUDY]. UKRI. Stirling. https://www.hagis.scot/_files/ugd/5d9fd0_381d4f906fca4e92bf51ffe314087269.pdf
Research Report
Has The Pandemic Changed Older People's Worries About Health
McGregor L, Brown T & Douglas E (2022) Has The Pandemic Changed Older People's Worries About Health [HAGIS COVID-19 AND YOU: IMPACT AND RECOVERY STUDY]. UKRI. Stirling. https://www.hagis.scot/_files/ugd/5d9fd0_36c3c9483a6349ac941dec1f83871222.pdf
Research Report
HAGIS COVID Impact & Recovery Executive Summary Report
Douglas E, Bell D, Dawson A, Brown T, Pemble C, Houston J, Comerford D, Olivarius O, Duggan A, McCabe L, Douglas C, McGregor L & Coutts-Murray K (2022) HAGIS COVID Impact & Recovery Executive Summary Report. UKRI. Stirling. https://www.hagis.scot/reports
Research Report
COVID-19 and You: Impact & Recovery Study
Dawson A, Brown T, Pemble C & Douglas E (2022) COVID-19 and You: Impact & Recovery Study [A literature review to inform the development of a UK specific instrument to measure COVID-19 fear]. UKRI. https://www.hagis.scot/reports
Research Report
Feelings Losses And Opportunities Emerging From The Pandemic
McCabe L, Brown T & Douglas C (2022) Feelings Losses And Opportunities Emerging From The Pandemic [HAGIS: Covid-19 and You - a qualitative study of older adults' experiences of living through COVID-19]. Douglas E (Project Leader) UKRI. Stirling. https://www.hagis.scot/_files/ugd/5d9fd0_55c2be6887a743bb9139ff98f4773f5d.pdf
Research Report
Experiences Of Health Engagement With Health Services
McCabe L, Brown T & Douglas C (2022) Experiences Of Health Engagement With Health Services [HAGIS Covid-19 and You: A qualitative report of older adults' experiences living through COVID-19]. UKRI. Stirling. https://www.hagis.scot/_files/ugd/5d9fd0_165fd0023bd0423d9657e183f7aedc83.pdf
Research Report
Technology And Social Connectedness
McCabe L, Brown T & Douglas C (2022) Technology And Social Connectedness [HAGIS Covid-19 And You: a qualitative study of older adults' experiences of living through COVID-19]. UKRI. Stirling. https://www.hagis.scot/_files/ugd/5d9fd0_444ece9ade794c9db9d1f3ddaf1a05e2.pdf
Research Report
How The Pandemic Affected Respondents' Financial Situation And Their Saving And Spending Behaviour
Houston J (2022) How The Pandemic Affected Respondents' Financial Situation And Their Saving And Spending Behaviour [HAGIS COVID-19 AND YOU: IMPACT AND RECOVERY STUDY]. Douglas E (Project Leader) UKRI. Stirling. https://www.hagis.scot/_files/ugd/5d9fd0_df78ec7f64e24bfb944ad14c8f9fa29d.pdf
Preprint / Working Paper
Validation of the Worries Emerging from the Covid-19 Pandemic (WECP) Scale
Comerford D, Olivarius O, Bell D & Douglas E (2022) Validation of the Worries Emerging from the Covid-19 Pandemic (WECP) Scale.
Conference Paper (published)
Brown T, Douglas E, Douglas C & McCabe L (2022) COVID-19 Impact and Recovery Survey: how COVID-19 fear impacts social, health and economic recovery from the pandemic in people aged over 50. In: Preparing for the future III: Tackling key challenges facing longitudinal population studies in a post-COVID world - Book of abstracts. CLOSER Preparing for the future III – tackling key challenges facing longitudinal population studies in a post-COVID world, Virtual, 20.01.2022. London: Closer. https://www.closer.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/Preparing-for-the-future-III-Book-of-abstracts.pdf
Conference Paper (published)
Douglas E, Bell DNF, Comerford D, McCabe L, Pemble C, McGregor L & Brown T (2021) The Impact of COVID-19 Fear: Evidence To Inform Social, Health And Economic Recovery - A Healthy Ageing In Scotland (HAGIS) Study. In: Ageing Past, Present and Future: Innovation and Change. British Society of Gerontology 50th Annual Conference, Online, 07.07.2021-09.07.2021. Hampshire: British Society of Gerontology, p. 165. https://www.britishgerontology.org/public/31949/BSG_Conference_Book_2021_Online_v2.pdf
Preprint / Working Paper
Comerford D, Olivarius O, Dawson A, Brown T, Bell D, McGregor L, Pemble C, McCabe L & Douglas E (2021) Did Negative News Regarding the Oxford AstraZeneca Vaccine end in Vaccine Hesitancy? A Repeated Cross-Section Event Study from the UK.
Other
Dawson A, Pemble C, Brown T, Comerford D, Olivarius O, McGregor L, Bell D & Douglas E (2021) A rapid review of the development and validation of instruments specifically designed to assess or measure 'COVID-19 fear'. National Institute for Health Research. PROSPERO 2021, CRD42021250233. https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?ID=CRD42021250233