Pre-post data from a cogenerational health outreach program within federally qualified health centers: experiences in the encore intergenerational vaccine corps and assessments of different generations and public issues

This dataset includes pre- and post-service responses from 175 participants in an intergenerational health outreach program within Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) in the San Francisco Bay Area called the Encore Intergenerational Vaccine Corps (“Vaccine Corps”). The primary sponsor of the Vaccine Corps was AmeriCorps Seniors, a U.S. federal agency that promotes national and community service for Americans aged 55 and older. Response dates cover May 2021 to April 2022, roughly the timeframe in which this program was implemented. Respondents were mostly female (72 %) and ranged in age from 18 to 81 years (M = 51.5, SD=18.9) during the first survey and 20 to 80 years (M = 55.5, SD=18.6) in the second survey. Volunteers, who worked to increase COVID-19 vaccine awareness and administrations, were evenly split between identifying as having medical skills (50 %; e.g., being a current or retired nurse or doctor) or being lay volunteers without medical skills (50 %). Questions focused on participants’ assessments of individuals from different generations (i.e., respondents aged 50+ were asked about younger people, and vice versa) and public issues (e.g., adequacy of resource allocation to FQHCs), as well as their experiences in the program. All survey responses were collected online, and survey outreach was conducted by CoGenerate (formerly called Encore.org), the lead program operator of the Vaccine Corps. The complete dataset with 145 variables (3 of which are string/text variables from open-ended responses) is available both as a Stata. do file as well as CSV files. A codebook is available. This dataset is a rare publicly available resource that includes questions related to allophilia (liking of people in the outgroup). It asks respondents about people of different ages, as well as thoughts about and experiences within FQHCs. It can be used to assess the potential for intergenerational programs within public health settings and the experiences of participants within an intentionally intergenerational program. The questions from the survey can also be used or adapted when assessing volunteers’ experiences in similar programs and how respondents view people from different generations.