Background

This dataset is one of the studies of the Corona Health project. It addresses how the physical health and habits of adults during the global pandemic changed over time. It consists of two questionnaires, a baseline questionnaire and a bi-weekly follow up questionnaire to track the behaviour in the last 14 days. The whole datasets contains more than 1800 users (98 % of them German) and a total of 7000 questionnaires. For some users, it also has GPS and app usage data.

Files

• rki_heart_baseline.csv -> The baseline questionnaire, containing demographic data as well
• rki_heart_followup.csv -> The follow-up questionnaire
• answersheets.csv -> The unprocessed answersheets from both, baseline and follow-up questionnaires in a raw format.
• codebook.xlsx -> The Codebook that describes the three files in detail

More information

• Key Facts

  • No. of questionnaires: 1805 Baseline + 5895 Follow-up
  • n Tracking Consent GPS (ratio): 1366 (75%)
  • n Tracking Consent App Usage (ratio): 101 (5.6%)

• Sociodemographics

  • Age, mean (SD): 41.7 (15.1)
  • Gender Ratio:
    • Male: 36%
    • Female: 64%
    • Diverse: 0%
  • Body Mass Index, mean (SD): 26.7 (6.23)
  • Users located in Germany (ratio): 98.7%

• Lifestyle habits at baseline

  • Daily Smokers (ratio): 292 (16.2%)
  • Daily fruit consumers before lockdown (ratio): 533 (29.5%)
  • Daily fruit consumers after lockdown (ratio): 538 (29.8%)
  • Daily vegetable consumers before lockdown (ratio): 562 (31.1%)
  • Daily vegetable consumers after lockdown (ratio): 559 (31.0%)

• Cardiovascular Health at baseline

  • History of hypertension (ratio): 454 (25.2%)
  • History of diabetes mellitus (ratio): 113 (6.3%)
  • History of hyperlipidemia (ratio): 461 (25.5%)

For a more detailed description of the dataset, please go on GitHub/joa24jm/ch-heart. There, you can also find a link to our publication.