Juntendo University has developed an iPhone application "Influenza Report" for influenza investigation.For this, Apple adopted the open source software framework "ResearchKit®" designed for medical and health research.It is expected that a large amount of collected data will contribute to the dramatic progress of medical research.

 For users of the "Influenza Report", a simple questionnaire survey will be conducted, such as the status of vaccination.After that, if you get influenza, you will be asked to conduct an additional questionnaire survey on symptoms and prescription drugs (you can answer after the symptoms have subsided), and check the influenza status and vaccination status every 30 days.Based on the response results and complex information such as temperature / humidity and walking speed in the place affected by influenza, we will try to scientifically elucidate the number of people affected by influenza, the effect of vaccines, and the risk factors of influenza.

 In addition, the collected data will be analyzed immediately within the app, and the influenza outbreak status for each region will be fed back to the user.Since such an outbreak situation is estimated from user data, it is different from general influenza pandemic information, but if you register the area you are interested in, you can see the outbreak situation in a relatively narrow area such as your office or your child's school. You can check.It also has a function to record body temperature, and is devised to help manage physical condition when suffering from influenza.

 At the time of participation, the application users will be given sufficient informed consent, such as by explaining the contents of the survey research and the handling of response data in an easy-to-understand manner for each item and then obtaining consent signature.In consideration of the protection of personal information, location information will be collected as a zip code, and additional measures will be taken to convert it into municipal units when announcing research results.

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