Enhancing the utility of the National Wellbeing Survey to understand rural-urban differences in the impacts of COVID-19 on adult psychological wellbeing and substance use
Principal Investigator
Shannon M. Monnat, Chair, Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion and Population Health, Syracuse University
Researchers are already using the National Wellbeing Survey to measure the mental health effects of states’ Covid-19 policies by age group, sex, race/ethnicity, and education. The pilot project will expand the next wave of data collection to oversample rural populations in order to measure effects by rural-urban variation.