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COVID-19 Social Monitor: Real time monitoring with regard to behavioural addictions as well as sleeping pills and sedatives.

  • Funded by Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH)
  • Total publications:0 publications

Grant number: 46975

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Key facts

  • Disease

    COVID-19

  • Start & end year

    2020

  • Known Financial Commitments (USD)

    $20,634.1

  • Funder

    Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH)

  • Principal Investigator

    Achtermann Wally

  • Research Location

    Switzerland

  • Lead Research Institution

    N/A

  • Research Priority Alignment

    N/A

  • Research Category

    Secondary impacts of disease, response & control measures

  • Research Subcategory

    Indirect health impacts

  • Special Interest Tags

    N/A

  • Study Type

    Non-Clinical

  • Clinical Trial Details

    N/A

  • Broad Policy Alignment

    Pending

  • Age Group

    Unspecified

  • Vulnerable Population

    Unspecified

  • Occupations of Interest

    Unspecified

Abstract

Covid-19 is challenging society, politics, and the economy on an unprecedented scale. Research is also being called upon. Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) has been conducting a population survey, the so-called Social Monitor. Starting with the survey wave running in the week of May 25, 2020, the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH) is participating in the Social Monitor with questions about behavioral addictions and the use of sleeping pills and tranquilizers. The FOPH hopes to gain insights into the influence of crises on public behavior.