Collaboration partners

 

It is particularly important for us to investigate how the corona crisis is affecting people with chronic illnesses, who are at high risk of developing serious consequences in relation to COVID-19. People with chronic illnesses may also be affected by the radical replacement of non-acute services within the healthcare sector. In collaboration with Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen and the Danish Diabetes Association, we will focus on people with diabetes and how they are experiencing the corona crisis. For further information, please contact:

Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen

Research Manager Ingrid Willaing

Research Assistant Kristoffer Panduro Madsen

Senior Researcher Lene Eide Joensen

The Danish Diabetes Association

Head of Research Tanja Thybo

 

 

Although the data we collect may be used by other leading research groups in the future, this project is primarily about gathering data that can only be collected as the crisis evolves. As such, it is important that our results are communicated quickly to people as they are experiencing the lockdown. To facilitate this, the project has entered into a collaboration with Politiken, one of Denmark’s foremost newspapers. Their journalists will continuously report the results of this project, and this will function as way to disseminate important information to the general population.

 

 

 

 

The research project has received 5.8 million Danish kroner from the Danish government to investigate the consequences of COVID-19 on pregnant women, their partners, and their newborn children. Based on a precautionary approach, pregnant women are considered to be a vulnerable group. Lack of knowledge about the consequences of COVID-19 on pregnant women may lead to increased worries. 

This project investigates the consequences of COVID-19 in each trimester of the pregnancy. Pregnant women have the opportunity to fill out a questionnaire at their 20-week scan. The questionnaire has been designed to document pregnant women's concerns during the corona crisis and is a collaboration with Standing together – at a distance. The questionnaire addresses the women's thoughts and concerns about pregnancy, birth, and maternity leave, where many things have changed and remain unknown under the current circumstances. Moreover, pregnant women are asked about their mental health, sleep, and social isolation, and which precautions they are taking. The National Committee on Health Research Ethics has granted approval to combine the questionnaire and biological data collected in this study. The research project aims to document how the corona crisis affects pregnant women, and whether pregnant women have particular concerns compared to other vulnerable groups.

 

 

 

 

 

 

DaneAge is a voluntary organisation with over 900,000 members. DaneAge works to ensure that people in Denmark can live a good life throughout their lives. In 215 local branches across the country, there are almost 100,000 events held each year, which form the framework for thousands of local communities. At the same time, many of DaneAge’s more than 20,000 volunteers work with programmes for marginalised and vulnerable older people in the local area. A number of voluntary activities are also intergenerational – e.g., ‘reading aunts’ read stories to school-aged children and, in many places, young people volunteer in DaneAge’s visiting service.

Preventing and fighting loneliness is one of DaneAge’s main focus areas, and the organisation is a co-founder of the People’s Movement against Loneliness, which works on the basis of a vision that no one in Denmark should be affected by severe loneliness.

For more information, please contact David Vincent Nielsen, social-humanitarian consultant, Volunteer department: dvn@aeldresagen.dk

DaneAge’s website: https://www.aeldresagen.dk/om-aeldresagen/aeldresagen/in-english