The Ageing Research Trials (ART) Repository
Research type
Research Database
IRAS ID
265505
Contact name
Andrew Clegg
Contact email
Research summary
The Ageing Research Trials (ART) Repository
REC name
Yorkshire & The Humber - Bradford Leeds Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
24/YH/0023
Date of REC Opinion
26 Feb 2024
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion
Data collection arrangements
We will set up a ‘repository’ of data from many different randomised controlled trials of community-based interventions (e.g. medicines management, exercise programmes) for older people. We will ask the original trial teams to provide the data that was collected from or about each person that took part in their trial, but we will make sure that we don’t receive any data that might tell us who they are (e.g. name, address). Data we plan to collect includes: disability, cognitive impairment, clinical tests, other illnesses, medications, behavioural or psychological measures, time to death. We will make our repository data available to other researchers for future research projects (yet to be specified), so it is not appropriate to limit data collection to specific items.
Data will be sent to the repository research team using a secure file sharing system. Transferred data will be stored securely in a dedicated server area, accessible only by the research team. The research team will check datasets on receipt to ensure that they are de-identified. If they are not, then identifiable fields will either be removed immediately (if this is simple to do), or the dataset will be deleted and a new one requested that is correctly de-identified.
Research programme
The overall aim is to create an individual patient data (IPD) repository of randomised controlled trials of community-based interventions for older people to enable secondary research by the ageing research community. This secondary research would aim to identify the best interventions (help, support and treatment) for older people, and look at how intervention effects might differ in relation to people's characteristics (e.g. frailty, cognition, ethnicity). This would enable researchers to recommend the particular groups of older people for whom certain interventions are most effective. Study designs and objectives will be many and varied, but all will relate to the health and wellbeing of older people.
Research database title
The Ageing Research Trials (ART) Repository
Establishment organisation
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Establishment organisation address
Academic Unit for Ageing and Stroke Research
Temple Bank House, Bradford Royal Infirmary
Duckworth Lane, Bradford
BD9 6RJ