Imperial health

I do surveys for YouGov from time to time, although they have stopped asking me very often, having worked out that my brand awareness is poor, so I do not have much to tell them. So it made a change to be asked by some people at Imperial about my physical and mental health.

Quite a long survey, taking half an hour or more to complete. Lots of questions about physical and mental health, although coverage of both seemed quite patchy, presumably reflecting whatever it was in particular that they were interested in. I have not got far enough into reference 1 to work out exactly what that was. Perhaps as a non-Covid person I was a control: I vaguely remember being asked to give them my details, some years ago now, but I cannot remember the context.

Some of the questions involved whizzy things like slide bars. Rather more of the questions had been carelessly formulated, without enough answers. Some of the questions seemed redundant given previous questions. Higher standard in that regard than YouGov, but not great. Maybe implementing whizzy slide bars was more fun than taking care with all the many questions.

On the other hand, a lot of the multiple choice mental health answers were familiar, given experience with friends and family over the years: they did seem to be asking the right sort of questions. They were also very interested in how I was sleeping - which I have to say is not as good as it was twenty years ago. I do tend to wake up pretty early most days.

In the event, I did not find reference 1 very helpful, so tried Gemini with 'What can you tell me about 'REACT-LCS: REAL-TIME ASSESSMENT OF COMMUNITY TRANSMISSION HEALTH AND WELLBEING SURVEY'?', lifted from the top of that reference. Plus a couple of supplementaries. I thought that his replies were much more helpful, including references 3 and 4. And for something of this sort, I don't feel the need to check him. He really is becoming useful.

A small part of his reply is snapped above.

PS: Wednesday: as it happens, YouGov popped up again today. Not quite sure why, but I am not very keen on them knowing what I do online. But why? I shall ponder.

References

Reference 1: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/sph/react/REACT-LCS-PIS.pdf.

Reference 2: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/05/bright-lights-day-two.html. My last encounter with Imperial College.

Reference 3: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/research-and-impact/groups/react-study/.

Reference 4: https://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/react-health-faqs.