POTSDAM -- Clarkson University Associate Professor of Physical Therapy Ali Boolani is asking the public to participate in a survey-based study to understand how COVID-19 affects people’s moods and lifestyles.

The study, titled “COVID-19 and health study,” aims to determine the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on a person’s moods and lifestyle. Boolani, who is working with Joel Martin and Nelson Cortes, researchers at George Mason University, plans to administer a series of surveys to determine how people are coping with these events with weekly follow-up emails.

The first set of surveys will ask about the characteristics of a person’s life, diet, sleep, physical activity level, and mood. After the initial email, Boolani and his colleagues will send weekly follow-up emails to see how each subject is feeling and whether anything has changed in their life. The initial survey takes approximately 10 minutes and each follow-up survey takes approximately 4 minutes.

“Our eventual hope is that these data can be used to design interventions to help people all around the world better navigate these challenging times,” Boolani said. “We also intend to share our findings with policymakers.”

Subjects will be entered into a drawing for $500. For every week that they fill out the survey, they get another entry for a drawing for a $500 Amazon e-gift card. Please feel free to share the link with your friends, family, and network.

This study has been reviewed and approved by Clarkson University’s Institutional Review Board. All of the information collected during this study will be kept strictly confidential and used for research purposes only.

The survey can be found at this link: https://tinyurl.com/vyfsjbl