Covid-19

View some of our key Covid-19 research. This includes Covid-life, a survey which asked around 18,000 Generation Scotland volunteers about how the pandemic impacted them. Research also looks at how the pandemic has impacted people's mental health.

Woman holding a covid-19 test

Read about how Covid-19 impacted our volunteers mental health and wellbeing.

Research poster about how the pandemic disrupted individuals with previous mental health issues.

Read about how the pandemic impacted individuals with existing anxiety and depression, specifically job and healthcare disruptions.

Read some of our Teen CovidLife research which shows that young people aged 12-17 were lonelier than adults in the CovidLife project at all stages of the pandemic.

Read about our survey, Covid-life, which asked around 18,000 Generation Scotland volunteers about how the pandemic impacted their mental health, livelihoods and wellbeing.

Teen covid life survey 1 infographic

Over 5,000 young people in Scotland took part in our Teen CovidLife survey. We've brought together the first and second set of survey results.

Research, involving Generation Scotland, has found 27 new biomarkers which may determine mild and severe forms of Covid-19.

Rural covid-life infographic of results

Read the results from over 3,000 people from across rural Scotland took part in our Rural CovidLife survey.

Graph with anxiety level on the y-axis and age on the x-axis

Generation Scotland and CovidLife volunteer data supports new findings that certain groups are more at risk of poorer mental health during COVID-19 than others.

Covid-19 virus animation

These results have helped to identify new potential treatments for Covid-19. Data from over 20,000 Generation Scotland volunteers played a vital role in the findings.