Airwave Health Monitoring Study
The Airwave Study investigates the possible health risks associated with the use of Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA), a digital communication system used by the police force, and has broadened to investigate more generally the health and social outcomes of working in the police force in Great Britain. Between 2004 and 2015, the study recruited approximately 53,000 employees of police forces and police-related agencies in Great Britain. Participants are followed up through health screening as well as linkage, and subsets of the cohort have participated in additional research studies.
Study design
Cohort, Cohort - occupational, Biobank
Number of participants at first data collection
53,114 (participants)
Age at first data collection
16 - 80 years (participants)
Participant year of birth
Varied (participants)
Participant sex
All
Representative sample at baseline?
No
Sample features
Countries
Year of first data collection
2004
Primary Institutions
Imperial College London (Imperial, ICL)
Profile paper DOI
Funders
Home Office
Imperial Biomedical Research Centre (BRC)
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (ICHNT)
Medical Research Council (MRC)
National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)
Ongoing?
Yes
Data types collected
- Activity log (e.g. food, sleep, exercise)
- Computer, paper or task testing (e.g. cognitive testing, theory of mind doll task, attention computer tasks)
- Physical or biological assessment (e.g. blood, saliva, gait, grip strength, anthropometry)
- Secondary data
- Self-completed questionnaire – paper or computer assisted
- Self-completed questionnaire – online
- None
- None
- Employer data
- Healthcare data
- Mortality data
- Social media & technology use data
Engagement
Keywords
Consortia and dataset groups
