Survey and 10-Day Diary Data on Infant Nutrition, Development, and Home Learning Environment during the COVID-19 Pandemic from the LEARN-COVID Pilot Study

Abstract

The LEARN-COVID pilot study collected data on infants and their parents during the COVID-19 pandemic. Assessments took place between April and July 2021. Parents (N = 357) from Switzerland (predominantly), Germany, and Austria answered a baseline questionnaire on their behaviour related to the pandemic, social support, infant nutrition, and infant regulation. Subsequently, parents (n = 222) answered a 10day evening diary on infant nutrition, infant regulation, parental mood, and parental soothing behaviour. Data and documentation are stored on Zenodo, https://doi. org/10.5281/zenodo.6946048. These data may be valuable to researchers interested in infant development and parenting during the pandemic as well as to researchers interested in daily variability in infant behaviour, parenting, and nutrition.

How was your child’s temperament today and last week? Considering within-person variability in the measurement of infant temperament

“…Participants. N = 357 parents participated in the larger study (Reinelt et al, 2022). In the present study, we included only mothers (i.e., participants who identified as female) with infants aged 6 to 18 months who completed the baseline questionnaire (containing the demographic questions) and at least two of the ten daily diaries.…”

“…Mothers could also indicate that an item did not apply on the respective day. The study (both baseline and daily diary) contained several other measures, as described in Reinelt et al (2022).…”

“…In Study 1, we investigated exploratively to which extent daily assessments of parentrated infant temperament show between-and within-person variability. The study was part of a larger data collection during the COVID-19 pandemic (Reinelt et al, 2022). Because previous studies using German versions of the IBQ and its short forms (Gartstein & Rothbart, 2003;Putnam et al, 2014) had only found two factors (Bayer et al, 2015;Sieber & Zmyj, 2022, Vonderlin et al, 2012, we only assessed the dimensions of negative affectivity and orienting/regulation (and not surgency) in Study 1.…”

Data on COVID-19-related Research Questions Spanning Diverse Disciplinary and National Contexts

“…The dataset described in Parsons et al (2022) is based on a more narrowly defined population -dyads of adolescents and their parents -and addresses psychological responses to COVID-19, such as resilience and anxiety. Further data papers describe datasets that cover the consequences of COVID-19 restrictions for family life and the well-being of parents and children at a more general level (Reim et al, 2022), or that focus on specific behavioural consequences, such as parental behaviour with regard to infant nutrition and infant regulation (Reinelt et al, 2022). The datasets described in other papers address the effects of COVID-19 restrictions on health behaviours and mental well-being (Ingram et al, 2022); widely discussed interindividual factors such as the endorsement of these restrictions, (dis)trust in science, and conspiracy mentality (Schnepf & Groeben, 2022); and psychological correlates of beliefs in conspiracy theories (Hudecek et al, 2022).…”

“…Edlund and Edlund (2023) further strengthen this area of research by contributing data from replication studies on the effects of empathy and conspiracy beliefs on preventive health behaviours (see discussion above on the dissemination of unqualified knowledge). Finally, six contributions to this special collection describe longitudinal datasets (Parsons et al, 2022;Reinelt et al, 2022;Reim et al, 2022;Ryvkina et al, 2023;Weiß & Stadtmüller, 2023;Welzel et al, 2024) addressing, for example, people's moral values during and shortly after the pandemic in Germany and the UK (Welzel et al, 2024) and -more generally -people's emotional and behavioural states during and after the first nationwide COVID-19 lockdown in Germany (Ryvkina et al, 2023).…”