Investigating the impact of Coronovirus on Return to Work

We would like to invite you to take part in this online study investigating the impact of Coronovirus/Covid-19 on return to work or ‘working’ where it is done at home. This is with the view to informing approaches to support the return to work or working process for people that have had Covid-19, with or without other pre-existing health conditions. It may be that additional considerations are necessary relative to workers that have not had Covid-19. The survey will take approximately 30 minutes of your time and can be paused and returned to at any time.

You will be asked for some background information such as your job role and position, the severity of your Covid-19 symptoms, your health status, your recovery experiences and your views on obstacles and enablers to the return to work or working process. Questions are a mixture of closed and open-ended items. Please answer as honestly and as fully as you can so that your answers can help shape reliable return to work guidance.

Your answers will be kept anonymous and will not be used to identify your results. To enable this, we will ask you to generate a unique six-digit ‘identity’ (the last three letters of your surname and the last three numbers of your phone number) which you can also use should you wish to remove your data from the study.

If you would like to withdraw your data you are free to do so without giving any reason within a 14-day period after participation. Please be aware that your unique ID will be needed in order to do this, as all data is unidentifiable. To withdraw, or if you have any questions, please email the lead researcher indicated below with your unique ID. You are under no obligation to provide a reason for your withdrawal. Any data you have provided will be securely destroyed. Please also note that leaving part way through the survey will be also counted as a withdrawal.

Please note that data collected will be stored securely and destroyed after the study has been completed. To enable full analysis and potential publication this may be for a minimum of seven years. Fully anonymised data may be made publicly available as part of open science initiatives during the publication process.

The data collected will be stored securely and destroyed after the study has been completed. To enable full analysis and potential publication in a peer reviewed journal, this may be for a minimum of seven years. All reporting of findings will be anonymised.

GDPR statement:

We are collecting data from your participation in this study. We need this data to understand the challenges associated with return to work and also in the public interest of enhancing academic research. This is the legal basis on which we are collecting your data and while this allows us to use your data, it also means we have obligations towards you to:

• not seek more information from you than what is essential and necessary for the study.

• make sure that you are not identified by the data by anonymising it using ID codes;

• use your anonymised data only for the purposes of this study and for any relevant publications that arise from it.

• store data safely in password-protected databases to which only the named researchers have access

• not keep your information for longer than is necessary (usually for seven years);

• safely destroy your data by shredding or permanently deleting them

The University of Derby will act as the Data Controller for this study. This means that the University is responsible for looking after your information and using it properly. Researchers on the project with access to the data are highly qualified and experienced and have been very careful to ensure the security of your data. The study was approved for its ethical standards by The University of Derby College of Life and Natural Sciences Research Ethics Committee. However, in the unlikely event that you feel you need to make a complaint regarding the use of your information, you can contact the Data Protection Officer at the University of Derby: James Eaglesfield (01332) 591762 or the Information Commissioners Office 0303 123 1113. Further information about the project can be obtained from Dr Jenny Lunt, 01332 592578 at the University of Derby, Kedleston Road, Derby DE22 1GB.

The researchers on the project with access to the data are highly qualified and have been very careful to ensure the security of your data. Once the data has been analysed and the project completed the data you have given to us will be deleted and destroyed. We shall not seek more information from you than what is essential and necessary for the study. Anonymised data from this project may be used in future publications.

If you have any questions about this study, please don’t hesitate to contact Jenny Lunt (lead researcher) using the details below.

Dr Jenny Lunt (j.lunt@derby.ac.uk) (01332 592578) (Lead Researcher)

Dr Amy Baraniak (a.baraniak@derby.ac.uk

Prof James Elander (j.elander@derby.ac.uk)

Prof Kim Burton Huddersfield (a.k.burton2@hud.ac.uk)