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If you suffer from chronic low back pain, join the BACKHOME study! Your participation will help us develop better treatments.

Who
You may be eligible if you are 18 years or older, have had low back pain for three months or more, and live in the United States.

When
If you join, we will send you a few surveys every 3 to 6 months over the next 2 years. The first survey will take the most time to complete because we’d like to learn about you and your experience with back pain. The next set of surveys will be much shorter in length. You can fill out the surveys on your computer or use your mobile phone whenever you have free time.

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A lot has changed since the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020. So in February 2023, we asked our COVID-19 Citizen Scientists their thoughts on the state of COVID-19 in 2023. 9,862 Citizen Scientists responded, and we are excited to share the results.

Click here to read the first in a multi-part blog post where we share the results from the survey. We will continue to share more results in upcoming Newsletters. Stay tuned!

We recently asked COVID-19 Citizen Science participants who had previously tested positive for COVID about their health after their initial illness. The scientific team at UCSF found that of those COVID-positive participants who responded to the survey, 32% reported Long COVID symptoms.

Factors that predicted Long COVID symptoms included the number of symptoms reported at initial infection, pre-infection symptoms of depression, and COVID variants prior to Omicron. Furthermore, we found that treatment with Paxlovid (nirmatrelvir/ritonavir) following a COVID-positive test among vaccinated, non-hospitalized individuals was not associated with prevalence of Long COVID symptoms or severity of Long COVID disease.

To read more about these findings, click here and here.

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