LUNGEVITY data collection to establish Cough Bank research database
Research type
Research Database
IRAS ID
283253
Contact name
Emil Fristed
Contact email
Research summary
Cough Bank - large scale collection of COVID-19 coughs and phonations
REC name
London - Camden & Kings Cross Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
20/LO/0733
Date of REC Opinion
6 May 2020
REC opinion
Unfavourable Opinion
Data collection arrangements
The Cough bank is a database of self-recorded coughs, phonations, and basic medical information of SARS-CoV2 patients and controls.
Data will be collected from 3 groups of data subjects. The first group will be data subjects who have been tested positive for SARS-CoV2. The second group will be data subjects who have been tested negative for SARS-CoV2. The third group will be data subjects who haven’t yet been tested for SARS-CoV2.
The data collected from each data subject will be:
Age; Biological sex; Height and weight; Ethnicity and native language; Whether they’ve been tested with COVID-19; The date and location of their test(s); whether they are currently in a hospital; COVID-19 symptoms. Any contact history with COVID-19 patients; Travel history; Smoking history; Other respiratory, neurological and neuro-muscular ailments they may have. Additionally, participants will be asked to provide sustained phonation and cough samples, as described below. The audio recordings will also form part of the database.Research programme
The purpose of the LUNGEVITY data collection study is to collect a large number of cough and phonation recordings from COVID-19 patients, suspected COVID-19 patients, controls with other respiratory conditions, and healthy controls. The recordings will form the basis of a database. The database of coughs and phonations can later be analysed to identify patterns that uniquely profile COVID-19 patients, forming the basis for a tool for mass screening.
Research database title
Cough Bank - large scale collection of COVID-19 coughs and phonations
Establishment organisation
Novoic Ltd
Establishment organisation address
Gemma House 39, Lilestone Street,
London
NW88SS