Direction of Control Group Research

The Control Group analytics team are preparing the second edition of our Quarterly Report. The Quarterly Report is a publication that reviews the last three months of health data contributed by you – the committed participants in the Control Group study!

It is your data and the database is your resource. We want you to put your questions to the analytics team.

Follow the link to our online survey to ask a question:

➡️ https://forms.gle/yjKTf3RHsrc5oQZ67

Examples of questions you might ask:

"What is the most common health complaint had by vaccinated people?"

"Has the prevalence of cancer increased among the unvaccinated as well as the vaccinated?"

"Is one sex experiencing more side effects from the vaccine than another?"

"What is the average age of those who are experiencing vaccine side effects?"

Please submit one request at a time. Questions must be brief but you can send as many as you like.
Your questions will help broaden our understanding of the ways in which health outcomes may differ between those who did and those who did not take the COVID-19 vaccines. It is not just the longevity of life between vaccinated versus unvaccinated people that concerns the Control Group — it is the quality of that life.

➡️ ASK YOUR QUESTION HERE: https://forms.gle/yjKTf3RHsrc5oQZ67

➡️ Tutorial with Q+A | Tomorrow with Diny
Tuesday 5 March 2024, 4.00PM (GMT) on Zoom

Do you need help with your Control Group account? This free tutorial session will take you on a tour of the Control Group 2.0 system, how to use it and the reason behind the questions in the survey.

These sessions are available for different time zones on different weeks – this weeks’ time is optimised for participants available in the evening in Europe and the morning in America and Canada.

➡️LEARN MORE: https://controlgroup.uk/training/

➡️REGISTER: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMsc--qqD0qEtWtEmcJCec5k1y-2hav-S9I#/registration

➡️ HOW TO BUILD YOUR PROFILE

Have you logged into your Control Group account since the summer?
Having trouble building your profile in the new 2.0 system?

Diny provides a full walkthrough tutorial of the Control Group's health database!

This video shows you how to establish user profile (or "participant profile") on the database, how to add your basic information, such as your lifestyle choices, blood group, and location type.

She then walks you through how to add your medical history, present conditions, illnesses, medications and supplements, how to amend any details should any of the information change in time, and how to complete your monthly update.

➡️WATCH NOW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsYLKf5dMCw

LOGIN: https://prod.controlgroup.coop/account/login

For more support, visit our website where we have a series of how-to guides, live Q+As, and email support: https://controlgroup.coop/support/index.html

➡️ 'Death Notification Letter'

We recognise that the pandemic era has left many people isolated — through bereavement, social ostracism, family fights, depression and anxiety, injury, illness and more. You may not have anyone close to register your death on your profile, or you may not have anyone in your life who is familiar with the Control Group and the study.

For this reason, we have created the 'Death Notification Letter' .

Like the 'Participation Certificate' and 'Participant Letter', any participant in the study can go to the 'Resources' page from within their Control Group account and download a personalised, 'Death Notification Letter' .

The letter expresses your desire to have your death registered with the Control Group for the purpose of the COVID study, and gives a brief set of instructions on how to register a participant as deceased. It includes your participant ID number and a unique QR code which allows the executor of your estate to register your cause of death with the Control Group.

We recommend you print out the letter, sign and date the letter at the bottom, and keep it among your personal paperwork.

As with the 'Notify of us of a participant death' button, the data you contributed to the study, and the information relating to your death, will still be included in the study and be included in our data findings.

Download your personalised Death Notification letter by logging in to your account.

LOGIN: https://prod.controlgroup.coop/account/login

➡️ 'Notify us of a participant death' button
A death can be registered with the Control Group within the participant's account by clicking the 'Notify us of a participant death' button — this is located on the profile(s) page when you login, on the left hand side, underneath the 'Add participant' / plus sign button.

STEP-BY-STEP

➡️ Click the 'Notify us of a participant death' button, a short questionnaire will appear on screen
➡️ Select the name of the participant that has died from the drop down menu
➡️ Select the cause of death — if the cause of death is unknown, click 'Undetermined'; if the cause of death is not listed, please pick 'Other' and type the cause of death in the box that appears below.
➡️ Put the date of their death
➡️ Click 'Save'

Once a death has been registered, if you refresh the page, this participant's profile turns from green to grey, and their profile can no longer be edited. The information they gave about their health whilst they were alive, and the information relating to their death, will still be included in the study and be included in our data findings.

At the top of the page - underneath the 'Participant Household' box — is a toggle switch which says 'Show deceased participants' . If the switch is 'on' (blue) you will see any participant registered as deceased on screen in the greyed-out box. If you would like to keep these profiles but hide them from view, turn the switch to the 'off' (grey) position.

Once a participant is registered as deceased, you CANNOT undo this from within your account. If you accidentally register a participant as deceased, please fill out a support form on our website to request the participant is reinstalled: https://prod.controlgroup.coop/support

LOGIN: https://prod.controlgroup.coop/account/login

Direction of Control Group Research

The Control Group database is a resource that belongs to all of us — to everyone who contributes their time and data to the database, to everyone who looks out for our community, and to everyone who cares about building a healthier tomorrow.

We want you to have your say as to what research the Control Group pursues this year!

Follow the link to our online survey, and you can pose your questions to our data analytics team.

➡️ https://forms.gle/yjKTf3RHsrc5oQZ67

Examples of questions you might ask:

"What is the most common health complaint had by vaccinated people?"

"Has the prevalence of cancer increased among the unvaccinated as well as the vaccinated?"

"Is one sex experiencing more side effects from the vaccine than another?"

"What is the average age of those who are experiencing vaccine side effects?"

Please submit one request at a time. Questions must be brief but you can send as many as you like.

Your questions will help broaden our understanding of the ways in which health outcomes may differ between those who did and those who did not take the COVID-19 vaccines. It is not just the longevity of life between vaccinated versus unvaccinated people that concerns the Control Group — it is the quality of that life.

➡️ ASK YOUR QUESTION HERE: https://forms.gle/yjKTf3RHsrc5oQZ67

✨NEW *✨ *ALLERGIES AND INTOLERANCES:

- February 2024 -

Adhesives [HC-ALG287]
Blood transfusion reaction [HC-ALG288]
Lisinopril (Zestril) (Ace inhibitor) [HC-ALG289]
Levaquin (Levofloxacin) (Antibiotic) [HC-ALG290]

Let us know if you have any that needs adding (select topic NEW LIST ITEM)

✨NEW *✨ *HEALTH CONDITIONS:

- February 2024 -

Umbilical hernia [HC-GAS1104]
Umbilical hernia [HC-GAS1104]
COVID-19 - Arturus [HC-FEC1105]
COVID-19 - BA.2.86 (Pirola) [HC-FEC1106]
COVID-19 - Epsilon [HC-FEC1107]
COVID-19 - Eris [HC-FEC1108]
COVID-19 - Eta [HC-FEC1109]
COVID-19 - Fornax [HC-FEC1110]
COVID-19 - JN.1 [HC-FEC1111]
COVID-19 - Kappa [HC-FEC1112]
COVID-19 - Lambda [HC-FEC1113]
COVID-19 - Theta [HC-FEC1114]
COVID-19 - Zeta [HC-FEC1115]
Rotator cuff injury (tear) [HC-JUR1116]

Let us know if you have any that needs adding (select topic NEW LIST ITEM)

✨NEW *✨ *MEDICATION & SUPPLEMENTS:

- February 2024 -

Carbocisteine (Mucodyne) (Mucolytic) [TR-PHA357]
Cardamom [TR-SUP369]
Colecalciferol (high dose vitamin D) [TR-PHA362]
Depo-Medrone injection (Corticosteroids ) [TR-PHA372]
Diltiazem (Adizem, Angitil, Tildiem, Viazem, Zemtard) (High blood pressure) [TR-PHA355]
DMSO (Dimethyl Sulfoxide) [TR-SUP359]
Glutamine [TR-SUP371]
Glutathione [TR-SUP370]
Kenalog injection (Corticosteroids) [TR-PHA373]
Levaquin (Levofloxacin) (Antibiotic) [TR-PHA368]
Levothyroxine (Hypothyroidism, thyroid, hormone) [TR-PHA360]
Lisinopril (Zestril) (ACE Inhibitor) [TR-PHA367]
MasterPeace (Marine Plasma) [TR-SUP374]
Oral vitamin K (injection alternative) (at birth) [TR-PHA366]
Oramorph (Morphine, Opioid analgesics) [TR-PHA354]
Residrenate (osteoporosis) [TR-PHA361]
Uniphyllin Continus (Theophylline, oral bronchodilator) [TR-PHA356]
Vitamin K injection (New born injection) [TR-PHA358]
Vitamin K1 [TR-SUP363]
Vitamin K2 [TR-SUP364]
Vitamin K3 [TR-SUP365]

Let us know if you have any that needs adding (select topic NEW LIST ITEM)