DOI: 10.5061/dryad.6t1g1jx2v
title: HEartS Professional Survey: Charting the effects of COVID-19 on working patterns, income, and wellbeing among performing arts professionals in the United Kingdom (April–May 2021)

description: These data were collected using the HEartS Professional Survey II from
 performing arts workers in the United Kingdom in April–May 2021. HEartS
 Professional II is an adaptation of the HEartS Professional I survey which
 was used in April–June 2020 (https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.s7h44j14z).
 Both surveys were designed as multi-strategy data collection tools with
 two main purposes: (1) to chart working patterns, income, sources of
 support, and indicators of mental and social well-being in order to
 identify trends in the effects of the lockdown at the time and (2) to
 explore the individual work and wellbeing experiences of performing arts
 professionals in their own words, in order to identify the subjective
 effects of lockdown in terms of challenges and opportunities. The survey
 covers six areas: (1) demographics; (2) information on illness or
 self-isolation related to COVID-19; (3) work profiles and income; (4)
 changes to work profiles and income as a result of the pandemic, as well
 as sources of support; (5) open-response questions about work and
 wellbeing experiences of lockdown including challenges and opportunities;
 and (6) validated measures of health, wellbeing, and social connectedness.
 The HEartS Professional surveys are adaptations of the Depression,
 loneliness, online survey, pandemic, performing arts professionals, Social
 Isolation, UK adult sample, well-being, Work which charts the Health,
 Economic, and Social impacts of the ARTs
 (https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.3r2280gdj). 
description: The sample was recruited through an online data collection
 platform, Qualtrics, from April to May 2021. Here we include the data set
 (N = 685) of completed surveys. The survey contains the
 following sections:  <em>Demographic and socioeconomic
 information</em>: Where available, standardised Census questions
 were used to collect data on ethnicity, geographic region, highest
 educational qualifications, gender, age, and household composition, and
 income.  <em>Illness or self-isolation related
 to COVID-19</em>: Newly created questions.  
 <em>Work profiles and income</em>: Newly created
 questions.  <em>Changes to work profiles and
 income as a result of the pandemic and sources of support</em>:
 Newly created questions and Inclusion of Other in Self Scale. 
 <em>Open-response questions about work and well-being
 experiences of lockdown, including challenges and
 opportunities</em>: Newly created questions (NB. data for the open
 questions are not included for confidentiality reasons). 
 <em>Measures of health, well-being, and social
 connectedness</em>: The following validated and previously used
 measures are included. Mental
 Health Continuum Short Form 14-item scale Centre for
 Epidemiologic Studies Depression (CES-D) Short Form 8-item
 scale Self-rated General Health item (from
 SF-36) Physical activity scale recording mild,
 moderate, and vigorous physical activity frequency (from Whitehall II
 Study) Social Connectedness Revised 15-item scale
 UCLA Three-item Loneliness Scale, Single item loneliness
 question De Jong Gierveld Loneliness Short Form
 6-item scale 1-item questions on loneliness frequency
 and loneliness intensity  
 More information is provided in the Variables tab in the
 dataset. 
description: In line with Dryad's human subjects data protection rules,
 some personal data have been removed from this file. Variables for which
 data have been omitted are marked with an asterisk in the Variables tab in
 the dataset.