COVID-19 Questionnaire Study

Launched April 15, 2020, the CLSA COVID-19 Questionnaire Study collected data from 28,559 CLSA participants over an eight-month period. The purpose of the study was to investigate the effects of the pandemic on older adults, exploring how they cope, the impacts on their physical and mental health and changes to how they access health-care services.

The CLSA COVID-19 Questionnaire Study collected data on a weekly/biweekly and monthly basis. The web-based and telephone-based interviews included questions on COVID-19 symptoms and status, risk factors, healthcare use, health behaviours, psychosocial and economic consequence of the pandemic.

More information and baseline findings of the CLSA COVID-19 Questionnaire Study are available through the CLSA COVID-19 Questionnaire Study Data Dashboard.

The CLSA COVID-19 Questionnaire Study was funded by the Juravinski Research Institute, McMaster University, the McMaster Institute for Research on Aging, the Nova Scotia COVID-19 Health Research Coalition and the Public Health Agency of Canada.