NCT04756869

Monitoring Health Care Workers at Risk for COVID-19 Using Wearable Sensors and Smartphone Technology

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 226 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Michigan · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This prospective study of health care workers utilizes wearable sensors, surveys and symptom logs, and biospecimens in an effort to improve self-monitoring practices for COVID-19 among health care workers and to provide key data for the development of a predictive model for early detection of COVID-19 infection.

Detailed description

Health care workers work on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic, so early detection of COVID-19 infection is especially important in this population in order to prevent the spread of disease among the health care workforce, their patients, and their families. However, standard symptomatic COVID-19 testing is insufficient to protect health care workers and prevent the spread of disease. This study utilizes continuous physiological data from wearable sensors and surveys completed via smartphone technology, in conjunction with biospecimens, in order to assist health care workers in their self-monitoring for COVID-19 infection. Subjects will wear smart watches and temperature monitoring patches to collect continuous heart rate and temperature data. Subjects will also complete baseline and exit surveys, in addition to daily mood and symptom logging surveys. Finally, subjects will provide biospecimens - nasal and saliva samples and optional blood samples. Using wearable sensor data in conjunction with survey data and biospecimens, this study aims to prevent the spread of COVID-19 among health care workers, their patients, and their families, and to eventually develop a predictive model for early detection of COVID-19 infection.

Conditions

• Covid19

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	COVID-19 Monitoring Using Wearable Sensors and Smartphone Technology	Health care workers are on-study for 30 days, in which they wear a smart watch and temperature patches up to daily. Subjects also may provide nasal and saliva samples up to daily during the study period, and they may opt-in to blood samples lasting up to 1 year after study completion. Through a smartphone app, participants complete surveys at baseline and at study completion, as well as daily mood surveys and symptom-reporting surveys. Finally, exit interviews occur at the end of the study period, and follow-up interviews may occur at specified timepoints up to 1 year after study completion.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-04-28
• Primary completion: 2021-01-16
• Completion: 2021-01-16
• First posted: 2021-02-16
• Last updated: 2022-02-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States