Multiple Long Term Conditions Registry
Research type
Research Study
Full title
The UK Multiple Long Term Condtions Research Registry
IRAS ID
299560
Contact name
Miles Witham
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 11 months, 30 days
Research summary
This project establish a UK wide registry of people with multiple long-term conditions interested in taking part in research, with a minimum data set to enable us to match people to future studies. We will maximise the flexibility of recruitment methods to ensure that recruitment is as inclusive as possible in line with the recent INCLUDE guidance from NIHR.
We will enrol 500 participants from 10 UK centres (4 in North East England, the other 6 spread across the UK). People aged 40 and over with 4 or more long-term conditions (from a standard list of 43 conditions will be eligible. Recruitment will be conducted via response to direct advertising, by approach to potentially eligible participants through mailshots from primary care, and through approaching patients in hospital outpatient clinics.
Participants will be able to join the study for face to face consent and assessment or for telephone/postal consent and assessment. After consent is obtained, information from GP and hospital records will be linked to participants baseline study information. For participants choosing face to face assessment, measures of physical fitness (grip strength and short physical performance battery) will be obtained at a one-off study visit. For all participants, information on memory, depression, quality of life, age, sex, ethnicity, location and medications will be collected at baseline. All participants will be asked for permission to be recontacted for future studies.
As part of the project, we will use the registry to conduct a study of lifestyle factors (diet, activity, smoking and alcohol use) and their relationship to multiple long-term conditions in 200 participants to help design future interventions to improve health for people with multiple long-term conditions.
REC name
East of Scotland Research Ethics Service REC 1
REC reference
21/ES/0099
Date of REC Opinion
27 Oct 2021
REC opinion
Unfavourable Opinion