Funding for this research was provided by:
Medical Research Council (MC_UU_00006/5, MC_UU_00006/7, MC_UU_00006/7, MR/N013433/1, MR/T010576/1)
Newnham College, University of Cambridge
Article History
Received: 7 February 2024
Accepted: 30 April 2024
First Online: 10 May 2024
Declarations
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: The University of Essex Ethics Committee has approved all data collection on Understanding Society main study, COVID-19 surveys and innovation panel waves, including asking consent for all data linkages except to health records. Requesting consent for health record linkage was approved at Wave 1 by the National Research Ethics Service (NRES) Oxfordshire REC A (08/H0604/124), at BHPS Wave 18 by the NRES Royal Free Hospital & Medical School (08/H0720/60) and at Wave 4 by NRES Southampton REC A (11/SC/0274). Approval for asking consent for health record linkage and for the collection of blood and subsequent serology testing in the March 2021 wave of the COVID-19 study was obtained from London – City & East Research Ethics Committee (21/HRA/0644). Approval for the collection of biosocial data by trained nurses in Waves 2 and 3 of the main survey was obtained from the National Research Ethics Service (Understanding Society – UK Household Longitudinal Study: A Biosocial Component, Oxfordshire A REC, Reference: 10/H0604/2). The biosocial data collection at IP12 ‘Understanding Society Health Innovation Panel: Biomeasure and health data collection from the Innovation Panel of the UK Household Longitudinal Study’ was approved by East of England – Essex Research Ethics Committee, Ref 19/EE/0146.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no known competing interests.