Development of Smell based test for identifying COVID-19 infection.
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: B972- Coronavirus as the cause of diseases classified elsewhere
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2020/05/025487
- Lead Sponsor
- ational AgriFood Biotechnology Institute NABI
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Closed to Recruitment of Participants
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
1. Symptomatic COVID19 positive patients, not critically ill or on ventilator, of any age/ sex and their relatives.
2. At risk individuals in quarantine (relatives and contact of positive individuals, symptomatic or asymptomatic) will also be recruited
3. As stated above sample size will be 300 initially irrespective of age/sex (no direct ratio) of the individuals
1. Critically ill or on ventilator COVID19 positive patients, will be excluded.
2.The patients on a regular medication with probability of loss of smell and taste sensation will be excluded. Their history of any comorbidity which is related to smell sensation will be taken into account.
3.Those addicted to the chewing paan and similar materials will be excluded.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method