What are the possible benefits of taking part?

While there are no immediate benefits for you, every survey that you fill out will increase our understanding of the health and wellbeing of migrants, like yourself.

By taking part in this study, you will:

• Help us understand of the health of people born outside the UK, like yourself.
• Help us identify areas of the NHS that need to be improved.
• Help us to improve the quality of the research for people born outside the UK.
• Help us get a sense of community within the UK migrant population at large.
• Receive a newsletter of the findings to which you contributed.
• Get access to a number of helpful resources for UK migrants. Click here!

What are the possible disadvantages and risks of taking part?

In this study you will be asked questions relating to migration, mental and sexual health which you may find distressing. There is a possibility that completing the surveys could evoke previous negative experiences with your health or migratory experience. You may find that some questions do not apply to you.

Before you undertake a survey you will be explained in short about its content and you can then decide whether to take part in that particular survey. Should you become distressed, you will be able to stop the survey at any time by pressing the ‘close’ button. Following most surveys, we will include information to signpost you to national support related to the survey you have just undertaken. Additionally, the resource section of the HOME app will have more information about the health and migration services available in the UK.

We advise you to contact your GP or local mental health services should you feel you need more support.

What data is collected and what will happen to the results of the research study?

The survey questions will cover a wide range of topics that can affect your health and wellbeing, like your nutrition, housing, employment, and experience with your GP or healthcare provider.

Your data will be used for academic research by UCL and only de-personalised results will be shared to improve health, care and services for the migrant community.

The results of this study will be written up and published in scientific journals as well as within wider media platforms. We will engage with policymakers to help them make decisions that better reflect the health needs of migrants like yourself in the UK.

Additionally, we will send you summaries of our analysed data every few weeks via email. The results will also be on the study website.

How is my privacy and personal data protected?

After registration, your personal, identifiable, data is immediately securely transferred by HTTPS and stored on secure servers through Amazon Web Services (AWS) and then moved to the UCL Data Safe Haven.

The controller for this project will be University College London (UCL).

The UCL Data Protection Officer provides oversight of UCL activities involving the processing of personal data, and can

be contacted at data-protection@ucl.ac.uk

This ‘local’ privacy notice sets out the information that applies to this particular study. Further information on how UCL uses participant information can be found in our ‘general’ privacy notice. For participants in health and care research studies, click here.

The information that is required to be provided to participants under data protection legislation (GDPR and DPA 2018) is provided across both the ‘local’ and ‘general’ privacy notices. The lawful basis that will be used to process your personal data are: ‘Public task’ for personal data and ‘Research purposes’ for special category data.

Your personal data will be processed so long as it is required for the research project. If we are able to anonymise or pseudonymise the personal data you provide we will undertake this, and will endeavour to minimise the processing of personal data wherever possible. If you are concerned about how your personal data is being processed, or if you would like to contact us about your rights, please contact UCL in the first instance at data-protection@ucl.ac.uk.

This study was approved by the UCL ethics committee (reference number: 13571/003). 

Will I be contacted during the study?

Your email address will be included in this research study’s registry. We will send a newsletter every few weeks with information about this study. You can opt out of this registry at any time to stop receiving the newsletter or any other form of correspondence.

Help us to improve the health of people born outside the UK: download the HOME app below and join our study.

Contact us

If you have any questions prior to participating in the study or during the course of the study, please feel free to contact the HOME study team at any time by sending us an email at homeappstudy@ucl.ac.uk. We will reply to your message as soon as we can.