Information for participants in the Control Group of the ELVIS COVID-19 study Thank you for completing the registration questions for the ELVIS COVID-19 study. You have been placed in Group 2: Control group This means we are asking you to continue to observe the UK Government personal and household hygiene advice. Coronavirus (COVID-19) Self-Isolation and Treatment Advice on the NHS UK website. We will also be sending you daily diaries to your email for you to complete as soon as possible each morning. Please complete these daily until you feel well or for 14 days, whichever comes first. This way we can find out if your symptoms are getting better. When you feel better, we will send you a short end of illness survey to find out a bit more about you and your symptoms. We are also interested to know if anyone else in your household develops COVID-19 symptoms during the 14 days from when you start the study. If you have others in your household we will send a final short survey after 14 days to ask. Please use the Coronavirus (COVID-19) guidance from the relevant NHS website (for where you live) if your symptoms get worse and need to seek medical help: England: Coronavirus (COVID-19) guidance on the NHS England website Northern Ireland: Coronavirus (COVID-19) guidance on the NHS Northern Ireland website Scotland: Coronavirus (COVID-19) guidance on the NHS Inform Scotland website Wales: Coronavirus (COVID-19) guidance on the NHS Wales website Phone 111 or contact your GP Thank you for taking part in the ELVIS COVID-19 study – and for sharing your daily diaries and end of illness information. We hope you feel better soon. Daily Diaries / End of illness questions Daily Diaries - for up to 14 days An email will be sent to you first thing every morning with a link to complete a diary. We ask you to fill this in as soon as possible eachmorning. The diaries will ask you about your symptoms within the last 24 hours and to compare this to the day before. Each diary should not take longer than 10 minutes to complete. You will receive an automatic e-mail reminder to complete your daily diary later in the day. If you’ve already completed your daily diary when the reminder arrives, please just ignore/delete the e-mail. If you opt in to receive reminder messages by SMS you may receive a reminder SMS message to your mobile phone as a prompt to complete a daily diary if for some reason you miss one. End of illness questions When you feel well or on day 14 (whichever comes first), you will be asked to complete a short survey that will ask a few questions on what you did during the study and if other people in your household started to have COVID-19 symptoms. Did anyone else in your household develop symptoms in 14 days? If you became well earlier, and you have other people in your household, on day 14 you will be asked if anyone in your household started having COVID-19 symptoms after you became well. All communication will be by email/SMS message reminders if you have chosen to receive them. However, if you have any problems with the links or have questions on how to complete the daily diaries, you can speak to a member of our team - please do get in touch! Contact us General Advice Please continue to monitor and self-manage your symptoms. Please continue to follow the UK Government advice on personal and household hygiene: Coronavirus (COVID-19) Self-Isolation and Treatment Advice on the NHS UK website If you have any questions regarding the study or need help with the links please contact the study team by email. We will do our best to answer you questions as quickly as possible. Email the ELVIS COVID Team Please note that this email inbox is monitored Monday - Friday during normal working hours. If you have an urgent query regarding your participation in the study, please contact Lesley Sinclair (study manager) on 07787 0043443 Or Dr Sandeep Ramalingam Email Dr Sandeep Ramalingam Please use the Coronavirus (COVID-19) guidance from the relevant NHS website (for where you live) if your symptoms get worse and need to seek medical help: England: Coronavirus (COVID-19) guidance on the NHS England website Northern Ireland: Coronavirus (COVID-19) guidance on the NHS Northern Ireland website Scotland: Coronavirus (COVID-19) guidance on the NHS Inform Scotland website Wales: Coronavirus (COVID-19) guidance on the NHS Wales website Phone 111 or contact your GP. What happens when the study is finished? We are asking you complete the daily diaries until you feel better or for 14 days, whichever comes first. The final stage is a short end of illness survey and, if you have others in your household, a very last short survey on day 14 to find out if anyone else in your household developed symptoms. After this time, we will not contact you further. If you agreed to us collecting a sample in the future for antibody testing, we may be in touch when this becomes feasible. At the end of the research, we will analyse the data and publish the results. We will also publish a summary of the results online on the study website. This will give you the information that you may require if you wish to carry out saltwater nasal washout and gargling after the study is finished. It is important to note that your personal details will never be shared in a public setting, online or otherwise. We value your privacy and take the necessary measures to ensure your data stays safe. If you no longer want to take part If you no longer want to take part, you can stop at any time. There is an option on the online diaries to let us know that you no longer want to take part and this will let us know not to contact you further. You will also be asked if it is ok for us to use any data you have given us up to the point when you stop your participation. If you decided to withdraw from the study please know this will not affect the healthcare that you receive from the NHS in any way. ELVIS COVID-19 Study Information about the ELVIS COVID-19 study ELVIS COVID-19 About the ELVIS COVID-19 Team Find out about the ELVIS COVID-19 Team ELVIS COVID-19 Study Team This article was published on 2024-09-24
