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Bern, Get Ready (BEready) Cohort Study for Pandemic Preparedness

NCT ID: NCT06739499

Last Updated: 2024-12-18

Study Results

Results pending

The study team has not published outcome measurements, participant flow, or safety data for this trial yet. Check back later for updates.

Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Total Enrollment

2500 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2024-04-29

Study Completion Date

2100-12-31

Brief Summary

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The BEready project aims to find out how people in the Canton of Bern can be helped to be more prepared for the next pandemic. BEready wants to understand how infections spread among people as well as between people and animals. BEready wants to find out how social and environmental factors can influence the transmission or catching of infectious diseases. BEready wants to better understand how households and their pets in the Canton of Bern were and continue to be affected by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

Detailed Description

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The overall aim is to establish BEready as a 'pandemic preparedness cohort', a cohort with a well-characterised study population of households, which has an infrastructure to conduct studies about infectious diseases, and which can be rapidly mobilised to respond to a new pandemic. BEready aims to understand the epidemiology and transmission of infectious diseases (particularly viral respiratory pathogens) in households including pets in the canton of Bern, and to engage diverse communities in efforts to strengthen pandemic preparedness.

The objectives are:

* to study the distribution and timing of infectious diseases and transmission patterns of circulating infectious diseases, both between individuals and at the human-animal interface (One Health)
* to study social (e.g. gender, affective polarisation) and environmental factors (e.g. climate change), which may affect transmission or acquisition of infectious diseases;
* to understand how households, including their pets, in the canton of Bern have been and will be affected by COVID-19; and
* to engage diverse communities in ongoing efforts to strengthen pandemic and public health literacy, and to prepare for the public health response to a new pandemic.

Conditions

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Pandemic, COVID-19 Infections Zoonoses Epidemic Disease Respiratory Tract Infections

Keywords

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One Health Pandemic preparedness Community engagement

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

COHORT

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Informed consent
* Residence (average of more than 3 days/week) in a private household in the canton of Bern where at least one member aged 18 agreed to take part.
* For adults, children aged 14 years or older, and parents/legal guardians: internet connection (Wi-Fi, fixed or on a mobile phone) and personal email address.
* For adults, children aged 11 years or older, and parents/legal guardians: able to understand, speak, read and write German, French and/or English.
Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Stiftung Vinetum

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of Bern

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Nicola Low, Prof. Dr. med.

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Bern

Locations

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University of Bern

Bern, , Switzerland

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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Switzerland

Central Contacts

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Nicola Low, Prof. Dr. med.

Role: CONTACT

Phone: +41 31 684 30 92

Email: [email protected]

BEready Project Management

Role: CONTACT

Phone: +41 79 804 00 68

Email: [email protected]

Facility Contacts

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BEready Project Management

Role: primary

Related Links

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https://www.beready.unibe.ch/index_eng.html

BEready Cohort study website

Other Identifiers

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2023-02290

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id