Italian Web-based Cross-sectional Survey on COVID-19

Summary

The outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) that started in late December 2019 in the Hubei province of China caused millions of cases worldwide in just a few months, and evolved into a real pandemic.

However, only approximately 20% of SARS-CoV-2 infected patients required intensive on sub-intensice medical care and the remained experience mild or subclinical form of the disease that did not require hospital admission and a relatively high percentage (40 to 45%) remained asymptomatic.

Understanding the occurrence of SARS-CoV-2-like infectious in a large non-hospitalized population, when the epidemic peak was occurring in Italy, is of paramount importance but data are scarce.

The goal of this research project is to estimate the number of suspected cases of COVID-19 and to investigate the role of the potential factors associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection in a large Italian sample of respondents living in Italy during the lockdown (started in Italy on 9 March 2020).

EPICOVID19 is an Italian countrywide self-administered cross-sectional web-based survey on adult volunteers launched on April 13, 2020.

The on-line questionnaire has been developed starting from the available literature and implemented using an open source platform focusing on beahvioural and clinical features of participants.

Conditions

• Covid19
• SARS-CoV Infection
• Survey, Family Life
• Epidemic Disease
• Self-Assessment

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Environmental exposure and clinical features

Environmental exposures and clinical features are measured by means of a self-administered 38-item on-line questionnaire containing mainly mandatory and closed questions divided into six sections: i) socio-demographic data; ii) clinical evaluation; iii) personal characteristics and health status; iv) housing conditions; v) lifestyle; and vi) behaviours following the lockdown.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• National Research Council, Institute of Clinical Physiology, Italy

  collaborator OTHER

• Institute of Neuroscience-National Research Council

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• University of Milan

  collaborator OTHER

• Italian Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Italian Society for Infectious and Tropical Diseases

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Institute of Biomedical Technologies-National Research Council, Italy

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Federica Prinelli, PhD · Institute of Biomedical Technologies-National Research Council

• Fulvio Adorni, MPH · Institute of Biomedical Technologies-National Research Council

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2020-04-13

Primary Completion

2021-02-28

Completion

2021-02-28

Countries

• Italy

Study Locations