This readme.txt file was generated on <20210816> by ------------------- GENERAL INFORMATION ------------------- 1. Title of Dataset: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on social isolation in older adults with vision loss or hearing loss 2. Author Information Principal Investigator Contact Information Name: Yueh-Hsun Wu Institution: University of Minnesota Address: No.75 East River Road, MPLS, MN, 55455 Email: wuxx1591@umn.edu ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2935-5337 Associate or Co-investigator Contact Information Name: Peggy Nelson Institution: University of Minnesota Address: No.75 East River Road, MPLS, MN, 55455 Email: nelso477@umn.edu ORCID: Associate or Co-investigator Contact Information Name: Gordon E. Legge Institution: University of Minnesota Address: No.75 East River Road, MPLS, MN, 55455 Email: legge@umn.edu ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3742-1680 3. Date of data collection: 20200428 to 20201112 4. Geographic location of data collection: MN, USA 5. Information about funding sources that supported the collection of the data: The study is supported by the Center for Applied and Translational Sensory Science at the University of Minnesota. -------------------------- SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION -------------------------- 1. Licenses/restrictions placed on the data: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ 2. Links to publications that cite or use the data: The manuscript is still under preparation. 3. Links to other publicly accessible locations of the data: NA 4. Links/relationships to ancillary data sets: NA 5. Was data derived from another source? No. 6. Recommended citation for the data: Wu, Yueh-Hsun; Nelson, Peggy; Oeding, Kristi; Teece, Katherine; Anderson, Elizabeth; Legge, Gordon E. (2021). The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on social isolation in older adults with vision loss or hearing loss. Retrieved from the Data Repository for the University of Minnesota, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/223060. --------------------- DATA & FILE OVERVIEW --------------------- 1. File List A. Filename: 1a_COVID_intake_survey_questions.pdf Short description: This pdf file includes questions from the intake survey. B. Filename: 1b_COVID_intake_survey_data.csv Short description: This csv file includes the data from the intake survey. C. Filename: 1c_COVID_intake_survey_codebook.csv Short description: This csv file includes the codes used in the intake survey data file. D. Filename: 2a_COVID_main_survey_questions.pdf Short description: This pdf file includes questions from the main survey. E. Filename: 2b_COVID_main_survey_data.csv Short description: This csv file includes the data from the main survey. F. Filename: 2c_COVID_main_survey_codebook.csv Short description: This csv file includes the codes used in the intake survey data file. G. Filename: Readme.txt Short description: Readme documentation file 2. Relationship between files: 1a, 1b, 1c are three files from the intake survey. 2a, 2b, 2c are three files from the main survey. The Readme.txt file provides descriptions of all 6 files. 3. Additional related data collected that was not included in the current data package: NA 4. Are there multiple versions of the dataset? no -------------------------- METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION -------------------------- 1. Description of methods used for collection/generation of data: Three groups of older adults -- vision loss (VL, N = 13), hearing loss (HL, N = 24), and controls (CTL, N = 18) -- were recruited from the Twin Cities Minnesota community (mean age = 68.18, min = 57, max = 80). Participants were interviewed every 5 to 7 weeks from the end of April to the end of October using the same set of questions. The initial interview at the end of April included retrospective responses to questions regarding participantsŐ status at the beginning of March, prior to pandemic restrictions, and the beginning of April, after the onset of pandemic restrictions. The survey questions addressed (1) demographic and health information, (2) average number of in-person and electronic social contacts per week, (3) sense of loneliness, (4) accessibility of daily services such as grocery shopping, (5) mental health, (6) worry levels about COVID infection, and (7) impact on daily activities. 2. Methods for processing the data: After the 1c and 2c datasets were exported directly from Qualtrics, some columns (containing open text answers) were removed from the main survey data for the purpose of deidentification. The text version of the two surveys (1a and 2a) were directly exported from Qualtrics. 3. Instrument- or software-specific information needed to interpret the data: NA 4. Standards and calibration information, if appropriate: NA 5. Environmental/experimental conditions: The data was collected during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. 6. Describe any quality-assurance procedures performed on the data: NA 7. People involved with sample collection, processing, analysis and/or submission: Collection: Yueh-Hsun Wu, Kristi Oeding, Katherine Teece, Elizabeth Anderson Processing: Yueh-Hsun Wu, Kristi Oeding, Katherine Teece, Elizabeth Anderson Analysis: Yueh-Hsun Wu Submission: Yueh-Hsun Wu ----------------------------------------- DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION FOR: [1b_COVID_intake_survey_data.csv] ----------------------------------------- 1. Number of variables: 18 2. Number of cases/rows: 55 3. Missing data codes: -99 : blank/missing data 4. Variable List Please check the codebook file (1c_COVID_intake_survey_codebook.csv) ----------------------------------------- DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION FOR: [2b_COVID_main_survey_data.csv] ----------------------------------------- 1. Number of variables: 45 2. Number of cases/rows: 377 3. Missing data codes: -99 : blank/missing data 4. Variable List Please check the codebook file (2c_COVID_main_survey_codebook.csv)