56d4b055-c66b-42b9-8962-a47dfcf3b8b0 English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) dataset dataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-11-13T16:25:15 UK GEMINI 2.3 GB postcodes Survey data on wellbeing and nature connectedness before and after taking part in nature-based activities in 2020, UK 2022-10-03 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/56d4b055-c66b-42b9-8962-a47dfcf3b8b0 10.5285/56d4b055-c66b-42b9-8962-a47dfcf3b8b0 doi: Pocock, M.J.O., Hamlin, I., Christelow, J., Passmore, H.-., Richardson, M. (2022). Survey data on wellbeing and nature connectedness before and after taking part in nature-based activities in 2020, UK. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/56d4b055-c66b-42b9-8962-a47dfcf3b8b0 Surveys of wellbeing, nature connectedness and pro-nature conservation behaviour scores from adult human participants before and after taking part in nature-based activities, including citizen science, in 2020 are presented. Participants were recruited via a public campaign and were randomly allocated into groups: citizen science, noticing nature (three good things in nature activity), combined citizen science and three good things in nature, and a wait list control. They were invited to take part in activities up to five times in the following eight days. Online surveys of wellbeing and nature connectedness were undertaken at people’s sign up to the project and after the eight days of activities. Demographic characteristics and people’s engagement with the project and responses to the pathways to nature connectedness were recorded after the eight days of activities. The research was carried out to investigate concern about the negative impacts of COVID-19 movement restrictions and social distancing on people's wellbeing and mental health. Research was funded through NERC grant NE/V009656/1 - COVID 19 - Does nature-based citizen science enhance well-being and mitigate negative effects of social isolation? Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/56d4b055-c66b-42b9-8962-a47dfcf3b8b0 Pocock, M.J.O. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4375-0445 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk owner NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher Pocock, M.J.O. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4375-0445 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information pointOfContact Hamlin, I. University of Derby I.Hamlin@derby.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3925-0907 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Christelow, J. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Passmore, H.-. Concordia University of Edmonton holli-anne.passmore@concordia.ab.ca https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2448-2206 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Richardson, M. University of Derby m.richardson@derby.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7223-7053 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author notPlanned Human Health and Safety theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication citizen science human health GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Nature connectedness wellbeing mental health volunteer behaviour otherRestrictions Registration is required to access this data otherRestrictions This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Pocock, M.J.O., Hamlin, I., Christelow, J., Passmore, H.-., Richardson, M. (2022). Survey data on wellbeing and nature connectedness before and after taking part in nature-based activities in 2020, UK. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/56d4b055-c66b-42b9-8962-a47dfcf3b8b0 textTable 1000 English utf8 health society 2020-07-14 2020-08-24 -8.648 1.768 49.864 60.861 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/56d4b055-c66b-42b9-8962-a47dfcf3b8b0 Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/56d4b055-c66b-42b9-8962-a47dfcf3b8b0.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information dataset dataset Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 Data for each survey were collected via an online survey tool (Qualtrics). Data from each survey were linked via anonymised codes unique to each person. Answers to open questions were subject to thematic analysis (identifying themes and coding responses), and were reviewed prior to publication, with personally identifiable redacted to ensure anonymity. UK location data was presented as postcode districts, e.g. “OX10”. Data were transposed into an Excel spreadsheet and exported as a .csv file for deposit into the EIDC.