iCARE August Newsletter

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iCARE August Newsletter

Survey 12 was released on August 24, 2021. It includes new questions on topics such as returning to school and returning to work in person.

You can find our survey here: iCAREstudy.com

Thanks to your support, the iCARE survey is now at more than 99 000
responses from 190 countries. Can you help us reach our goal of 100 000 responses?

COLLABORATOR MEETING

The iCARE team will be hosting a fifth collaborator meeting on October 7, 2021 . As usual, in order to accommodate as many collaborators as possible across different time zones, we will have two meetings. The two meetings will be
1) Thursday October 7, 2021 9.00-10.30 am (EST - Montreal, Canada)
or
2) Thursday October 7, 2021 at 5.00-6.30 pm [17.00-18.30] (EST - Montreal, Canada)

OPEN INVITATION

Drs. Stojanovic, Lavoie, and Bacon are guest editors in the Open Access Journal "Vaccines" for a Special Issue on COVID-19 Vaccination: Considerations for Public Health and Policy. Original research articles and different types of evidence-summaries are welcome. Research areas may include (but not limited to) the following:

COVID-19 vaccine acceptance, hesitancy, and refusal, including assessments of the evolving epidemiology and understating of individual, group–level and context-specific determinants of these phenomena.
Monitoring and continued development of COVID-19 vaccines, including efficacy and effectiveness of vaccines in the context of emerging variants, safety, booster doses, mixing and matching vaccines.
Public health and policy issues, including vaccine deployment, ensuring equitable access, communication strategies for encouraging vaccine uptake and introduction of vaccine passports.

The deadline is August 31, 2022. They look forward to receiving your contributions!

ANALYSIS REQUESTS

NEW! The Data Management committee has developed the iCARE Analysis Request Form in order to provide analytical support to interested collaborators. You can find an example of how to correctly fill out this form on our OSF.

DATA REQUESTS

Our team has developed a data access protocol for interested iCARE collaborators. Below is a short summary of the steps and approximate timelines.
We have created data dictionaries for all convenience and Canadian representative samples to help you navigate through these datasets. You can find them here.

*Steps 3 & 4 can be done simultaneously

iCARE REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLES

In parallel with recruiting our global convenience sample, the iCARE team has coordinated representative sampling efforts in the UK, Canada, Australia, Ireland, Italy, Israel, France, and Colombia. We are now preparing to launch representative sampling in the US.

CANADIAN LONGITUDINAL STUDY

Since January, Canadian respondents to the iCARE survey are redirected to participate in a longitudinal version of the study led by Drs. Bacon and Lavoie. We are currently at more than 900 responses.

VIEW SUMMARY OF RESULTS

We have recently updated our results' page to include surveys 9 and 10. Below is an example of our findings:

COLLABORATOR RESEARCH SUB-GROUPS

iCARE collaborators are actively working in research sub-groups on the following topics:

Going back-to-school during COVID-19
Pregnancy during COVID-19
COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy
Chronic disease

There are several research topics of shared interest between iCARE collaborators. This file lists current and potential subgroups organized around specific topics. If you are interested in leading a sub-group, please contact us. You can also view on-going projects by browsing our iCARE analysis plan (iSAP) log.

INVESTIGATOR IN THE SPOTLIGHT

Dr. Joshua Rash is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN), and registered clinical, health and rehabilitation psychologist in the province of NL. As Director of the MUN Behavioural Medicine Centre, Josh seeks to: 1) understand how biopsychosocial factors influence the development and progression of health and disease (e.g., cardiovascular disease, pain, cancer); and 2) design and implement behavioural interventions that are aimed at improving the lives of individuals living with chronic illness. He is currently leading a CIHR-funded pan-Canadian clinical trial evaluating the effect of oxytocin for the management of chronic pain among adults who experience diverse chronic pain presentations. Josh is also the lead investigator of a CIHR-funded pragmatic trial evaluating the implementation of a stepped care model in the delivery of mental healthcare across three Atlantic Canadian provinces. In the iCARE study, he is enthusiastic to provide insights into the adoption and maintenance of health behaviours, including adherence to COVID-19 safety precautions; improving vaccination intentions and uptake; understanding the differential impact that COVID has placed on people living with multimorbidity; and delineating effective strategies to motivate individuals to follow public-health guidance. In other pandemic-related work, Josh is preparing a manuscript that reports on the results of an experimental investigation into the impact of sensationalist news stories about COVID vaccinations on vaccine hesitancy.

OSF: iCARE Collaborator Documents

It is the responsibility of all collaborators to familiarize themselves

with this page as a condition of collaboration.

PUBLICATIONS

Protocol paper describing the iCARE Study:

Bacon, S. L, Lavoie, K. L., Boyle, J., Stojanovic, J., Joyal-Desmarais, K., for the iCARE Study team. An international assessment of the link between COVID-19-related attitudes, concerns and behaviours in relation to public health policies: Optimising policy strategies to improve health, economic and quality of life outcomes (the iCARE Study): Protocol paper. BMJ Open. (published).

Preventive behaviours & their determinants:

Durand, H., Bacon, S. L., Byrne, M., Kenny, E., Lavoie, K. L., McGuire, B. E., Mc Sharry, J. Meade, O., Mooney, R., Noone, C., O’Connor, L. L., O’Flaherty, K., & Molloy, G. J. (2020). Identifying and addressing psychosocial determinants of adherence to physical distancing guidance during the COVID-19 pandemic – project protocol. HRB Open Research (published).
Enticott, J., Slifirski, W., Lavoie, K. L., Bacon, S. L., Teede, H., & Boyle, J. A. Knowledge, attitude, and self-reported practice towards measures for prevention of the spread of COVID-19 among Australians: A nationwide online longitudinal representative survey. Frontiers in Public Health (published).
Lavoie, K. L., Boucher, V. G., Stojanovic, J., Voisard, B., Szczepanik, G., Gauvin, L., Boyle, J. A., Bélanger-Gravel, A., Bacon, S. L., for the iCARE Study Team. 2021. Determinants of adherence to COVID-19 preventive behaviours in Canada: Results from the iCARE Study. medRxiv doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.06.09.21258634
Noone, C., Warner, N., Byrne, M., Durand, H., Lavoie, K. L., McGuire, B. E., McSharry, J., Meade, O., Morrissey, E., Molloy, G., O'Connor, L., & Toomey, E. Investigating and evaluating evidence of the behavioural determinants of adherence to social distancing measures: A protocol for a scoping review of COVID-19 research. HRB Open Research (published).
Stojanovic, J., Raparelli, V., Boccia, S., Lavoie, K. L., & Bacon, S. L. Public perceptions and behavioural responses to the COVID-19 emergency in Italy: Results from the iCARE study. European Journal of Public Health (under review).

Vaccination:

Stojanovic, J., Boucher, V. G., Gagné, M., Gupta, S., Joyal-Desmarais, K., Paduano, S., Aburub, A., Sheinfeld Gorin, S. N., Kassianos, A. P., Ribeiro, P. A. B., Bacon, S. L., & Lavoie, K. L. Global Trends and Correlates of COVID-19 Vaccination Hesitancy: Findings from the iCARE Study. Vaccines, 2021, 661, 1-13. (published)

Prevention policies:

Bacon, S. L., Baro, S., Barreira, I., Caravello, J. C., Caruso, J. M. , Filippa, N., Gastaldo, Z., Gomez Jimenez, C. , Grañana, N. E., Lavoie, K. L., Losada, A. V., Muñoz, M. A., Nogueira Da Silva, A. C., Peláez, S., Peralta, M., Peralta, M. F., Perez, A. R., Perez Roma, F. L., Sorbara, S. E., Taliercio, A. E. & De Souza Godinho, S. (2020). Representaciones de las medidas gubernamentales en el contexto del COVID-19. Revista digital prospectivas en psicología 5, (1), 15-24.(published).

Epidemiological findings:

Stojanovic, J., Boucher, V. G., Boyle, J., Enticott, J., Lavoie, K. L., & Bacon, S. L. COVID-19 is not the flu: Four graphs from four countries. Frontiers in Public Health, 9, 191. (published).

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