DOI: 10.5061/dryad.s7h44j14z
title: HEartS Professional Survey: Charting the effects of COVID-19 lockdown 1.0 on working patterns, income, and wellbeing among performing arts professionals in the United Kingdom (April–June 2020)

description: These data were collected using the HEartS Professional
 Survey from performing arts workers in the United Kingdom in
 April–June 2020. HEartS Professional was designed as a
 multi-strategy data collection tool with two main purposes: (1)
 to chart working patterns, income, sources of support, and indicators of
 mental and social wellbeing 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. HEartS
 Professional is an adaptation of the HEartS
 Survey 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 1 April to 15 June
 2020. 784 respondents started the survey and 447 completed it. Here we
 include the subset (n=385) of completed surveys that worked in the two
 performing arts areas: <em>Music or sound arts (e.g. professional
 musician) </em>and/or <em>Performing arts (e.g. professional
 actor, dancer, circus performer
 etc.).</em> 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</em> and <em>sources of support:</em><em> </em>Newly created questions and Inclusion of Other in Self Scale.  Open-response questions about <em>work and wellbeing experiences of lockdown</em>, including challenges and opportunities: Newly created questions (NB. data for the open questions are not included for confidentiality reasons). <em>Measures of health, wellbeing, 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. For any questions contact aaron.williamon@rcm.ac.uk.