True Colours Research Database - version 1 [COVID-19]

• Research type

  Research Study

• IRAS ID

  276576

• Duration of Study in the UK

  years, months, days

• Research summary

  True Colours (TC) is a web and smartphone based digital tool that is used as a clinical service to monitor a variety of symptoms developed over a decade ago by psychiatrists, software engineers, and researchers at the University of Oxford in partnership with Oxford health NHS Foundation Trust. TC prompts users to answer daily or weekly validated questionnaires of their symptoms over time. Our aim is to: 1) establish a consenting process for previous, current, and future patients who have been enrolled into the TC platform; and 2) to establish a TC research database of de-identified TC data. The purpose of the TC research database will be to provide researchers access to consenting patients de-identified retrospective and prospective TC data for research into the long-term feasibility, acceptability and benefit of the digital tool. These data reflect rich, high-frequency symptom data and if linked to consenting patients EMRs could inform several lines of research inquiry relating to the health benefits of self-monitoring, new disease phenotypes, better insights into treatment effectiveness and the impact of natural phenomena’s such as the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to establish such as database, a consent process among existing users is required.

• REC name

  East Midlands - Derby Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  20/EM/0150

• Date of REC Opinion

  19 Jun 2020

• REC opinion

  Further Information Favourable Opinion