For COPPAR Participants
Your participation will begin at your regularly scheduled visit with your dermatologist or rheumatologist and will continue every 6 months for the next 5 years. Phone call Interviews usually take 30 min-60 minutes, and surveys will be sent over emails, and you can fill them out whenever you have time.
Our research staff are wearing masks which is compliant with the MGB infection control policy. To minimize in-person interaction, we interview the participants over phone calls and communicate over emails. You can still participate in the study visit when your clinical visit is a virtual visit.
You can call us at 617-732-5083, Monday – Friday, 9 am – 5 pm or email at coppar@bwh.harvard.edu to reschedule your call or contact, research staff.
Participation in this research study will not likely benefit you directly. The information and samples you provide, however, may help us better understand, prevent, treat or cure PsO or PsA.
We will reimburse you up to $15.00 for 2-hrs parking expenses when completing our study visits.
If you participate in this research study, please let us know whenever you want to drop out of the study. We will make sure that you stop the study safely. Your decision won’t change the medical care you get within MGB now or in the future.
You can call us at 617-732-5083, Monday – Friday, 9 am – 5 pm or email at coppar@bwh.harvard.edu to reschedule your call or contact, research staff.
Participation in this research study will not likely benefit you directly. The information and samples you provide, however, may help us better understand, prevent, treat or cure PsO or PsA.
We will reimburse you up to $15.00 for 2-hrs parking expenses when completing our study visits.
If you participate in this research study, please let us know whenever you want to drop out of the study. We will make sure that you stop the study safely. Your decision won’t change the medical care you get within MGB now or in the future.
For Patients who are Eligible for Research Tissue Bank
If you decide to participate in an optional part of the research study, a licensed physician will ask you to provide a maximum of two skin biopsies (from your psoriasis plaques) and collect the skin biopsy. As part of this study, we will collect two skin samples (biopsies) from your psoriasis plaques, not from healthy skin. First, the area where the biopsy is taken is cleaned with alcohol. You will have an injection of numbing (lidocaine) into the area. The injection may cause you some brief pain. Then, the study doctor will remove the piece of skin around ¼ of an inch (4mm), about the size and shape of a pencil eraser. The study doctor will close your wound with one or two stitches. You will be scheduled for a follow-up visit 5 to 14 days after the procedure to evaluate the biopsy site and stitches.
You will receive a $50 check to provide your samples after we collect your samples for the research.