Online survey: Personality traits related to stress and development of PTSD-like symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic

The purpose of this research study is to evaluate mental health and stress in response to COVID-19. You will be asked to provide your email address in order to complete future surveys to better understand how mental health and stress change over time in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The initial survey will take 1 to 2 hours to complete. Follow-up surveys will take about 30 to 45 minutes to complete. You will be asked to provide answers to follow-up surveys on a monthly basis.

Principal investigator: Fred A. Lenz, MD, PhD

The survey is here.

Disclaimer (ethical/legal): All personal or identifiable data will be kept on secured computers and servers. Participants can optionally provide their email address, which will only be used to send follow-up surveys monthly. The data will be stored confidentially in accordance with the Johns Hopkins Medical Institute's data security policy. This study has received ethical approval from the Johns Hopkins Hospital institutional review board, IRB00248005.

End date: Open until May 2022