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Getting Started with ResearchKit

By : Dhanush Balachandran, Edward Cessna
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Getting Started with ResearchKit

By: Dhanush Balachandran, Edward Cessna

Overview of this book

ResearchKit is an open source software development framework from Apple that lets you easily create mobile applications for clinical research studies. ResearchKit provides you the ability to orchestrate the administration of tasks and recording of the results. ResearchKit provides tasks in order to perform informed consent, active tasks, and surveys. Starting with the basics of the ResearchKit framework, this books walks you through the steps of creating iOS applications that could serve as the basis of a clinical research mobile app. This book will introduce readers to ResearchKit and how to turn your iPhone into into a clinical research tool. The book will start off by installing and building the research framework in line with the researcher's needs; during this, the reader will learn to embed ResearchKit in the application and create a small task. After this, the book will go a little deeper into creating modules for surveys, consents, and so on. The book will also cover the various aspects of privacy and security with regard to participant data, and how to build dashboards for visualizing medical data and results in line with the researcher's requirements: data backends, JSON serialization and deserialization, and so on. Readers will be able to fully utilize ResearchKit for medical research, will be able to get more and more patients to participate in their surveys, and will gain insights from the surveys using the dashboards created.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Consent document


The ORKConsentDocument class is the heart of the informed consent process; it is the container of the information that is to be presented to the participant. This class drives the visual consent step (ORKVisualConsentStep), consent review step (ORKConsentReviewStep), and production of the informed consent document in a PDF. Consent documents have a title and the signature page of the document has a title and page content property; consent documents may have or require one or more signatures.

The properties and relationships of ORKConsentDocument are depicted in the following diagram:

Creating a consent document and setting its properties are accomplished simply by the following:

//  1
let document = ORKConsentDocument()
// 2       
document.title = "Example Consent"
document.signaturePageTitle = "Consent"
document.signaturePageContent = "I agree to participate in this research study."

Instantiate ORKConsentDocument using the default initializer.

Set the consent document properties...