%0 Journal Article
%T Investigating the Use of Digital Health Technology to Monitor COVID-19 and Its Effects: Protocol for an Observational Study (Covid Collab Study).
%A Stewart C
%A Ranjan Y
%A Conde P
%A Rashid Z
%A Sankesara H
%A Bai X
%A Dobson RJB
%A Folarin AA
%J JMIR Res Protoc
%V 10
%N 12
%D Dec 2021 8
%M 34784292
暂无%R 10.2196/32587
%X <B>BACKGROUND: </B>The ubiquity of mobile phones and increasing use of wearable fitness trackers offer a wide-ranging window into people's health and well-being. There are clear advantages in using remote monitoring technologies to gain an insight into health, particularly under the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic.<BR><B>OBJECTIVE: </B>Covid Collab is a crowdsourced study that was set up to investigate the feasibility of identifying, monitoring, and understanding the stratification of SARS-CoV-2 infection and recovery through remote monitoring technologies. Additionally, we will assess the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated social measures on people's behavior, physical health, and mental well-being.<BR><B>METHODS: </B>Participants will remotely enroll in the study through the Mass Science app to donate historic and prospective mobile phone data, fitness tracking wearable data, and regular COVID-19-related and mental health-related survey data. The data collection period will cover a continuous period (ie, both before and after any reported infections), so that comparisons to a participant's own baseline can be made. We plan to carry out analyses in several areas, which will cover symptomatology; risk factors; the machine learning-based classification of illness; and trajectories of recovery, mental well-being, and activity.<BR><B>RESULTS: </B>As of June 2021, there are over 17,000 participants-largely from the United Kingdom-and enrollment is ongoing.<BR><B>CONCLUSIONS: </B>This paper introduces a crowdsourced study that will include remotely enrolled participants to record mobile health data throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. The data collected may help researchers investigate a variety of areas, including COVID-19 progression; mental well-being during the pandemic; and the adherence of remote, digitally enrolled participants.<BR><B>UNASSIGNED: </B>DERR1-10.2196/32587.