Project Overview
The overarching goal of this study is to rapidly improve our understanding of resilience processes related to the economic, social, and personal impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, including adherence to COVID-19 containment/mitigation efforts, and their downstream mental health outcomes in National Guard soldiers.
This study will capitalize on an ongoing longitudinal cohort study of 1,200 National Guard new recruits residing across the state of Minnesota. In the UH3 parent project, all recruits are prospectively assessed prior to basic combat training (BCT) and followed up at four time points post-BCT (at 6-month intervals). When Minnesota announced its stay-at-home order in March 2020, we had completed baseline data collection with 755 of 1,200 participants. We anticipate resuming baseline data collection for the UH3 parent grant in July-August 2020 allowing for a natural experiment.
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Research Aims
Our objectives for the study are to:
- determine whether pre-pandemic indicators of self- regulation, pre- and during-pandemic social and organizational support (resilience factors) attenuate downstream mental health responses to COVID-19-related stressors;
- evaluate the role of National Guard BCT, self-regulation, social and organization support in predicting adherence to COVID-19 containment efforts; and
- evaluate the role of BCT as a potential resilience factor attenuating the link between COVID-19-related stressors and downstream mental health outcomes.