UCLouvain/Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc 
" COVID-19 pandemic has an important impact on the health care provided by the anesthesiologists. Different societies of anesthesiology have provided guidelines and recommendations on how to manage patients who have been tested positive for COVID-19 or suspected to be infected. It is therefore important to know whether these guidelines have been implemented or were possible to be implemented. Otherwise patients who are presenting COVID-19 often show pulmonary complications. The airway management and the ventilation management of these patients can be therefore challenging and can possibly influence their outcome. It is thus important to obtain a large database with information about the characteristics of these patients, how these patients have been managed and their in-hospital outcome. Information regarding the correct implementation of guidelines is as well necessary for future guidance of health care providers. "
Funding: None
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Read more: Mona Momeni, MD, PhD

UMONS 
" On the basis of the official figures published by the national crisis committee, Olivier Debauche ("Computing, Software and Artificial Intelligence" department, Faculty Poytechnique, UMONS) has published a graph every day (Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.) which shows the evolution of the pandemic situation in Belgium by means of GeoAI. The goal is to show graphs and especially to explain why and how the curves evolve. "
Publication References: https://covid.engineering
Contact: Olivier DEBAUCHE UMons / Faculty of Engineering Infortech / ILIA Unit rue de Houdain 9 B-7000 Mons Belgium Phone: +32 65 37 40 59
Comment: Member of the consortium "covid-19 Mathematical Modelisation"

UCLouvain - FNRS
" We investigated the respective role of socio-demographic, cognitive, and emotional factors that can facilitate or impair three health behaviors recommended to limit the spreading of the covid19 pandemic (hand-washing, limitation of public transports' use and limitation of social contacts) "
Funding: No funding
Publication References: summary to be published in special issue of LouvainMedical Full report to be submitted in health psychology journal
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ULB, UR2NF - Neuropsychology and Functional Neuroimaging Research Unit affiliated at CRCN - Center for Research in Cognition and Neurosciences and UNI - ULB Neurosciences Institute - FNRS - Royal Academy of Sciences, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium
" The aim of the study is to examine day-to-day associations between subjective sleep quality and daytime functioning during the large-scale confinement measures taken in Belgium given the current Covid-19 pandemic in Europe. In particular, we are interested in assessing the interplay between altered patterns of sleep timing, duration and quality, and daytime behaviour, cognition, and affect for 2 weeks during the confinement period. Longitudinal data are obtained in Belgium, Hungary and Spain "
Funding: internal resources
Publication References: ongoing project
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UCLouvain - FNRS 
" Large-scale survey on the evolution of alcohol consumption / addictive behaviors (in the general population and in at-risk groups) during the COVID-crisis/lockdown period, and its links with environemental and psychological factors. "
Funding: None
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ULB
" The project aims at assessing the impact of holding municipal elections in France on the spread of the covid-19 epidemic by studying the relationship between turnout and the spread of the disease in areas at different stages of the epidemic. "
Funding: We have applied for a grant from FNRS.
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Comment: The project is at the data collection stage. No results are available yet.

UCLouvain - Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium
" TThe project US3R is a general population survey that will measure the magnitude of utilised, postponed and foregone medical care in relation with other health care needs than coronavirus symptoms during the confinement period in Belgium. The study aims to describe the magnitude of unsatisfied health care needs for various types of care. It will also identify the reasons for these postponed and foregone care according to gender, health status, geographical location and socioeconomic status. "
Funding: Budget Jeune Académique UCLouvain (Sandy Tubeuf)
Contact: Sandy Tubeuf, PhD Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Comment: Voir: https://uclouvain.be/fr/decouvrir/presse/actualites/coronavirus-avez-vous-renonce-a-des-soins-medicaux.html Lien vers l'enquête : https://uclouvainph.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8D3WX8lH34Lf6LP

UMONS 
" The outbreak of COVID-19 and the lockdown are undoubtably stressful (CDC, 2020; Liu et al., 2020). However, little is known about the influence of the lockdown on couple and family relationships. The goal of the present study is to investigate the longitudinal impact of the lockdown on couple and family relationships (i.e., distress, conflicts, problem-solving and aggression). Participants (N = 500) are completing 4 waves of data accross the different government announcements. An actor-partner interdependence model will be used to assess the dyadic developmental trajectory of partners. "
Funding: N/A
Contact: Sarah Galdiolo This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

UMONS 
" The outbreak of COVID-19 is undoubtably stressful (CDC, 2020; Liu et al., 2020). However, little is known about what types of stress individuals perceive across contexts and cultures (for notable exceptions see Kim, Sherman, & Taylor, 2008; Falconier, Randall, & Bodenmann, 2016). The goal of the present study is to investigate the perceptions of individual, relational, and systemic stress associated with COVID-19 for individuals in a romantic relationship living across the world. Specifically, this project will examine cross-cultural differences between various countries in Africa (Ghana), Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, and South Korea), South Asia (India and Pakistan), Eastern Europe (Hungary, Romania, and Russia), Northern Europe (Belgium, Ireland and the United Kingdom), Southern Europe (Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Turkey), Western Europe (Austria, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland), Middle East (Israel), North America (Canada and the United States), and South...

Read more: Sarah Galdiolo, Professor

UMONS 
" In view of the sanitary context, the UMONS Polytechnic Faculty has decided to replace its annual Créathon with a modified virtual version on the theme of containment. The professors at the origin of the initiative thus decided, in consultation with the academic authorities, to set up an activity whose objective was to enable students to meet (virtually) and to think about how, as engineers and citizens, they could put their skills at the service of society in this particular context. The question addressed to them was the following: "By what brilliant and simple means can we help our fellow citizens to better live the confinement and regain a smille? ». The 21 students who were present thus went through, during 4 hours of team work, the different stages of project creation (ideation, structuring of ideas, action plan of the selected idea and pitch) accompanied by their teachers. This session led to the presentation of 3 project ideas. The proposed solutions address well-known...

Read more: Sébastien Bette, Professor - Santo Raneri, Research and Teaching Assistant

ULB - FNRS
" Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, an unprecedented number of genomic sequences of the causative virus (SARS-CoV-2) have been publicly released. The resulting volume of available genetic data presents a unique opportunity to gain real-time insights into the pandemic, but also a daunting computational hurdle if analysed with gold-standard phylogeographic methods. We here describe and apply an analytical pipeline that is a compromise between fast and rigorous analytical steps. As a proof of concept, we focus on Belgium, one of the countries with the highest spatial density of sequenced SARS-CoV-2 genomes. At the global scale, our analyses confirm the importance of external introduction events in establishing transmission chains in the country. At the country scale, our spatially-explicit phylogeographic analyses highlight an impact of the national lockdown of mid-March on both the long-distance dispersal events and the dispersal velocity of viral lineages. Our...

Read more: Simon Dellicour, FNRS Postdoctoral Researcher

ULB
" FRAMEWORK: This is a collaborative project between the researchers of the UR2NF of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and the Institute of Psychology of the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest (ELTE). AIMS: To examine the bidirectional relationship between subjectively assessed sleep quality and daytime functioning with a special emphasis on the interplay between altered patterns of sleep timing, duration, and quality and daytime behavior, cognition, and affect during a 2- week long confinement period amidst the Covid-19 pandemic in Europe. PROCEDURE: Phase 1: Cross-sectional, on-line questionnaire assessing trait-like measures of Cognitive Disorganization, PTSD-like symptoms, and depression. Phase 2: Selected participants will receive questionnaires twice a day (morning, late afternoon) for 2 weeks. SPECIFIC HYPOTHESES: Subjective sleep disruption (assessed in the morning) will be associated with increased rumination, negative affect, psychotic-like experiences, and...

Read more: Simor Péter, PhD

UCLouvain
" The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental representation of social groups : The role of threat on the stereotypes of Chinese in the US and in France "
Funding: UCLouvain and FNRS
Contact: Vincent Yzerbyt, UCLouvain (PSP/IPSY), This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Comment: This project comprises two subprojects, one devoted to the change in stereotypes of Chinese in France and one on the facial representation of Chinese in the United States

UCLouvain
" The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the image about and behaviors towards fragile populations in general and migrants in particular "
Funding: An application for funding has been sent in. UCLouvain
Publication References: Vincent Yzerbyt & Stéphanie Demoulin (2019). Les relations intergroupes. Presses Universitaires de Grenoble: Grenoble
Contact: Vincent Yzerbyt, UCLouvain (PSP/IPSY), This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.