The COVID-19 Citizen Science Study: Protocol for a Longitudinal Digital Health Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic has catalyzed a global public response and innovation in clinical study methods.

Objective

The COVID-19 Citizen Science study was designed to generate knowledge about participant-reported COVID-19 symptoms, behaviors, and disease occurrence.

Methods

COVID-19 Citizen Science is a longitudinal cohort study launched on March 26, 2020, on the Eureka Research Platform. This study illustrates important advances in digital clinical studies, including entirely digital study participation, targeted recruitment strategies, electronic consent, recurrent and time-updated assessments, integration with smartphone-based measurements, analytics for recruitment and engagement, connection with partner studies, novel engagement strategies such as partici

SUBMITTER: Beatty AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8407439 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature