cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.25934/pr00012485
title: COV-IDD: Testing for COVID-19 in High Risk Children With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

description: The purpose of this study is to understand how to prevent COVID-19 spread in a school like the Mary Cariola Center (MCC) in Rochester, NY by answering questions like these: how do activities in the school alter chances of infection? Are there people infected with the COVID-19 virus who have no symptoms? How is spread of COVID-19 affected by vaccination rates? Is there any hesitancy to get the vaccine and what are the reasons? This information will be used to help keep the school open and the students and staff safe.Eligible participants are those that work at the Mary Cariola Center (MCC) and interact with the students at MCC who have a high risk of infection from COVID-19.The study lasts for up to 16 months.
DOI: 10.25934/pr00012490
title: A Nurse-Community Health Worker-Family Partnership Model to Increase COVID19 Testing in Urban Underserved and Vulnerable Communities

description: Historically, health disparities in the US are concentrated among underserved communities and socially vulnerable populations. The disproportionate COVID-19 related morbidity and mortality in communities of color and socioeconomic disadvantage acutely highlight this persistent public health problem, drawing attention to the urgent need for more equitable reach of testing, prevention, and control measures. The proposed research addresses this need using a 2-arm randomized controlled trial (RCT) that will evaluate the effectiveness of the Nurse-Community Health Worker (CHW)-Family Partnership intervention in promoting COVID-19 testing uptake, adoption of COVID control measures, and mutual aid capacity at the household level in an underserved and vulnerable population disproportionately affected by COVID-19. Enrolled households will be randomly assigned to either the intervention group where families will receive the Nurse-CHW-Family Partnership intervention including the offer of in-home testing and referral to seasonal influenza vaccination services, or the treatment-as-usual control group, which will be used to measure actual testing rates among public housing residents in relation to participant and household characteristics. The study hypothesis is that the Nurse-CHW-Family Partnership intervention will improve household-level COVID-19 testing uptake, adoption of COVID control measures, and mutual aid capacity relative to the treatment-as-usual control.
DOI: 10.25934/pr00012491
title: Identifying and Addressing Critical Social, Ethical, and Behavioral Factors Associated With COVID-19 Testing and Vaccination Among Spanish Speakers

description: Latinx communities are disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, with Spanish-speaking Latinx communities carrying even heavier burdens of infection, hospitalization, and mortality. Major barriers to COVID-19 testing and vaccination exist, and a profound need remains to understand and address the social, ethical, and behavioral implications (SEBI) of COVID-19 testing and vaccination within Latinx communities. Our community-academic partnership proposes a rigorous mixed-methods, community-based participatory research study to better understand the SEBI of COVID-19 testing and vaccination and to refine and test a novel and culturally congruent intervention that integrates two evidenced-based strategies - peer navigation and mHealth - to increase COVID-19 testing and vaccination within Spanish-speaking Latinx communities.
DOI: 10.25934/pr00012506
title: Community-engaged Approaches to Testing in Community and Healthcare Settings for Underserved Populations

description: The pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has resulted in substantial global morbidity and mortality including in Oklahoma and caused unprecedented interruptions in nearly all aspects of our lives. The population of the state of Oklahoma is at particular risk to SARS-CoV-2 due to its large rural population, strained healthcare system, and poor overall health. The Community-Engaged Approaches to Testing in Community and Healthcare Settings for Underserved Populations (CATCH-UP) program will involve both practice-based and community-based approaches to maximize the reach of the Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics - Underserved Populations (RADx-UP) consortium, broaden the potential perspectives that could be captured, and compare the effectiveness of strategies. The interventions will be pragmatic to allow CATCH-UP to respond to changing attitudes, barriers, and environments as the pandemic progresses as well as expected technology developments to produce more effective viral testing that can provide rapid results to patients. The investigators will assist 50 small primary care practices to implement guidelines-based testing and patient education about Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and risk mitigation strategies. The project's community-based approach is designed to rapidly respond to community testing needs by deploying mobile testing sites that will provide operational support to increase the efficiency and the existing capacity for state-wide testing by Oklahoma's public health authorities. Together, the investigators estimate that the CATCH-UP program will result in at least 105,000 SARS-CoV-2 tests performed during the first year of implementation. A comprehensive, ongoing evaluation will be performed to analyze patient and provider attitudes, barriers and facilitators of viral testing, identified health disparities caused by COVID-19, effectiveness of the intervention in both settings, and to allow robust collaboration with other RADx-UP consortium sites.
DOI: 10.25934/pr00012484
title: Leveraging Social Networks to Increase COVID-19 Testing Uptake: A Comparison of Credible Messenger and Chain Referral Recruitment Approaches

description: This two-year project will adapt and conduct a trial examining the ability of two recruitment strategies, chain-referral and credible messenger, to reach those who use opioids and other substances in order to increase their uptake of onsite point of care COVID-19 testing that will be delivered in two community based organizations (CBOs): Alliance for Positive Change and Argus Health Inc. In Phase 1, Adapt two implementation strategies to support COVID-19 testing uptake and sustainability, adapting elements of existing efficacious social network-based interventions via a CBPR approach. In Phase 2, we will examine and compare the efficacy of two sets of implementation strategies on (i) reach, (ii) testing uptake, (iii) service delivery (i.e. quarantine, medical care, contact tracing) and (iv) sustainability for individuals who use opioids and other drugs. In Phase 3, Elucidate and compare the system/organizational-, staff-, and individual-level factors that influence implementation (i.e. fidelity, acceptability, feasibility, sustainability) of the strategies to develop a plan for dissemination and scale-up in other CBOs who serve opioid and other substance using individuals in NYC.
DOI: 10.25934/pr00012498
title: SARS-COV-2 Screening in Dialysis Facilities: Building an Optimal Strategy to Protect High Risk Populations

description: Patients receiving dialysis are one of the highest risk groups for serious illness with SARS-CoV-2 infection. In addition to the inherent risks of travel to and dialysis within indoor facilities, patients receiving dialysis are more likely to be older, non-white, from disadvantaged backgrounds, and have impaired immune responses to viral infections and vaccinations. Universal testing offered at hemodialysis facilities could shield this vulnerable population from exposure, enable early identification and treatment for those affected, and reduce transmission to other patients and family members. In this pragmatic cluster randomized controlled trial as part of NIH RADx-UP Consortium, we will randomize 62 US Renal Care facilities with an estimated 2480 patients to static versus dynamic universal screening testing strategies. Static universal screening will involve offering patients SARS-CoV-2 screening tests every two weeks; the dynamic universal screening strategy will vary the frequency of testing from once every week to once every four weeks, depending on community COVID-19 case rates. We hypothesize that patients dialyzing at facilities randomized to a dynamic testing frequency responsive to community case rates will have higher test acceptability (primary outcome), experience lower rates of COVID-19 death and hospitalization, and report better experience-of-care metrics.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17887235
title: Morphological Informality Modelled Dataset in Kathmandu, Nepal

description: This dataset represents the difference between planned and unplanned areas of the city as an indication of urban deprivation. Areas with higher levels of morphological informality are related to more deprived areas.Produced as part of the IDEAMAPS Data Ecosystem project, the work was supported, in whole or in part, by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation INV-045252. Under the grant conditions of the Foundation, a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Generic License has already been assigned to the Author Accepted Manuscript version that might arise from this submission. The findings and conclusions contained within are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect positions or policies of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17887236
title: Morphological Informality Modelled Dataset in Kathmandu, Nepal

description: This dataset represents the difference between planned and unplanned areas of the city as an indication of urban deprivation. Areas with higher levels of morphological informality are related to more deprived areas.Produced as part of the IDEAMAPS Data Ecosystem project, the work was supported, in whole or in part, by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation INV-045252. Under the grant conditions of the Foundation, a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Generic License has already been assigned to the Author Accepted Manuscript version that might arise from this submission. The findings and conclusions contained within are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect positions or policies of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
DOI: 10.25934/pr00012473
title: NJ HEROES TOO (New Jersey Healthcare Essential Worker Outreach and Education Study - Testing Overlooked Occupations)

description: This mixed methods study evaluates the effectiveness and cost of a healthcare worker focused outreach intervention strategy versus community organization led outreach to explore contextual factors (individual, family, and community) affecting COVID-19 testing implementation outcomes and scalability.
DOI: 10.25934/pr00012492
title: Motivational Enhancement to Augment Contingency Management for SARS-CoV-2 Testing and Vaccination Utilization Among Syringe Exchange Clients

description: People who inject drugs (PWIDs) are highly vulnerable to SARS-CoV-2 infection and to the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), however, rates of SARS-CoV-2 testing and vaccination uptake -vital to mitigating the spread of COVID-19 and achieving herd immunity - are lower among PWIDs compared to the general population. Building on our Phase I Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics project, which found that contingency management (CM) increased testing utilization among PWIDs, the proposed project evaluates the comparative effectiveness of CM versus CM plus a brief motivational enhancement intervention on SARS-CoV-2 testing and vaccination uptake among PWIDs. This project has the potential to reduce COVID-19 health disparities among PWIDs and to decrease population level COVID-19 morbidity and mortality.
DOI: 10.25934/pr00012477
title: Keeping Rural Minority 'Essential' Workplaces Open Safely During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Frequent Point-of-care Molecular Workplace Surveillance for Miners (Short Title: The Miners' Pandemic Project)

description: The long-term goal of the study is to mitigate the spread of the pandemic in miners, a population of high-risk, rural essential workers who are susceptible and vulnerable to COVID-19, partly based on exposure to particulate air pollution, and who are predominantly racial/ethnic minorities in New Mexico (NM) (3, 11). The study objective is to provide proof-of-principle for frequent point-of-care molecular testing as a workplace surveillance tool to monitor and prevent the spread of SARS-CoV-2 infection in this unique population. The central hypothesis is that frequent workplace molecular surveillance is an effective method to reduce SARS-CoV-2 infection and discover novel host risk factors for the virus. The site of molecular surveillance (intervention site) will be a surface coal mine in McKinley County, NM, located just outside the Eastern Agency of the Navajo Nation, comprised of 66% minority miners. This site offers a unique opportunity for a community-based study of SARS-CoV-2 infection in this population. Miners at the intervention site will provide nasal swabs before beginning their work shift on alternate days that will be analyzed with a 'screening' molecular test (12). This test is ideal because it is low cost, simple, portable, point-of-care, rapid, and can be performed by minimally trained professionals in low-infrastructure settings. The control site is a similar coal mine in Campbell County, Wyoming (WY). Both mines, operated by the same company, have similar engineering, administrative, and personal protective measures in place. The rationale for this study is to establish the suitability of longitudinal molecular surveillance to prevent and control SARS-CoV-2 infection in this unique population by completing the following specific aims.
DOI: 10.25934/pr00012479
title: Back to ECE Safely With SAGE: Reducing COVID-19 Transmission in Hispanic and Low-income Preschoolers

description: This study aims to get children safely back to school by (1) Child and Family Testing, (2) ECE Personnel Testing, and (3) Outdoor Learning via Garden Education.
DOI: 10.25934/pr00012482
title: Assessing Testing Strategies for Safe Return to K-12 Schools in an Underserved Population

description: The primary goal of this study is to determine the most effective SARS-CoV-2 testing strategy for successful return of in-person school in the under-served communities of St. Louis.Regular screening testing has been recommended by the CDC as an additive mitigation strategy for in-person schools in areas of high community transmission. We will compare the effectiveness and acceptance of two different school-based testing strategies among students and school staff (symptomatic testing only versus weekly surveillance testing plus symptomatic testing), measuring school-based SARS-CoV-2 transmission through a cluster randomized trial.
DOI: 10.25934/pr00012487
title: COVID-19 Testing in Underserved and Vulnerable Populations Receiving Care in San Diego Community Health Centers

description: As part of National Institutes of Health Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics-Underserved Populations (RADx-UP) program, the goal of the RADxUP study is to develop, test, and evaluate a rapid, scalable capacity building project to enhance COVID-19 testing in three regional community health centers (CHCs) in San Diego County, California. In collaboration with CHC partners, their consortium organization, Health Quality Partners (HQP), investigators are pursuing the following Specific Aims: 1) Compare the effectiveness of automated calls vs text messaging for uptake of COVID-19 testing among asymptomatic adult patients with select medical conditions and those 65 years of age and older receiving care at participating CHCs. Secondarily, investigators will invite all study participants to receive flu vaccination and will assess feasibility and acceptability of study participants to refer adult family household members who are essential workers for COVID-19 testing. 2) Gather patient, provider, CHC leadership, and community stakeholder insights to establish best practices for future scale-up of COVID-19 testing sustainability and vaccination.
DOI: 10.25934/pr00012489
title: Communities Fighting COVID!: Returning Our Kids Back to School Safely

description: San Diego State University (SDSU), a designated Hispanic-serving institution, is partnering with Sweetwater Union High School District, an independent public school district serving 90% ethnic minority and a high proportion of socioeconomically disadvantaged students, and other community partners, to generate evidence for effective and feasible COVID-19 testing for unvaccinated and medically vulnerable middle school students and staff as part of broader COVID mitigation strategies including vaccination to return students back to school safely.
DOI: 10.25934/pr00012501
title: Community Collaboration to Combat COVID-19

description: This is randomized trial where households will be randomized to identify the optimal SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) testing modality in a population-representative sample of households in Baltimore City, Maryland. 1,386 households in Baltimore City will be randomized 1:1:1 to one of three testing modalities: 1) fixed-site standard of care testing; 2) community-based mobile van testing; or 3) self-collected home, based testing.
DOI: 10.25934/pr00012494
title: The Safer At School Early Alert HUB

description: Schools serve important community roles beyond academic education. In historically marginalized communities they are trusted providers for a range of support services for families in need. The tradeoff between these crucial benefits of in-person learning against the risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in school settings has been hotly debated throughout much of 2020 and 2021. The stakes are particularly high in historically marginalized communities which rely most heavily on school services, but have also been hit the hardest by COVID-19 primarily due to structural issues. The Safer at School Early Alert (SASEA) program was co-developed by the University of California, San Diego, the County of San Diego, and 15 partner schools serving socially vulnerable students in 5 school districts across San Diego County. SASEA utilizes daily wastewater and surface (floor) environmental monitoring to detect asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections among students and staff on campus. Positive environmental signals are immediately followed by targeted responsive testing for a whole school (in the case of wastewater) or classroom (for a positive surface sample). In this project, we will develop the Safer at School Early Alert HUB (SASEA HUB), an online school environmental monitoring report dashboard with resources to address structural barriers to COVID-19 diagnostic testing in historically marginalized communities (Aim 1). We will also create a toolkit to allow any school to rapidly adapt the template to their specific setting. In Aims 2 and 3, we will use a randomized stepped wedge trial to compare SASEA (control) vs SASEA HUB (intervention) in 26 schools across 3 diverse school clusters in San Diego County. Our primary outcome (Aim 2) is higher rates of diagnostic testing in intervention schools. Our secondary outcome (Aim 3) is increased risk mitigation behaviors in school community members when environmental surveillance data suggests a potential case on campus. In Aim 4, we will use parent-child narrative interviews with 40 parent-student pairs to understand how children perceive COVID-19 risk at school, assess differences in perceptions of testing barriers between intervention and control sites, and better understand how children understand the process of environmental surveillance and responsive testing.
DOI: 10.25934/pr00012499
title: Reopening Schools Safely and Educating Youth Research Study

description: The study has three aims and involves a clustered randomized controlled trial (RCT) where K-5 schools will be the unit of randomization. Aim 1 involves a qualitative assessment of rural Latino community's social, ethical, behavioral needs and resources for students to return to school and maintain onsite learning. Aim 2 includes a clustered RCT in schools. Aim 3 involves qualitative assessment of implementation outcomes of the Yakima School District (YSD) testing program and risk communication intervention with school stakeholders, parents, and children.
DOI: 10.25934/pr00012502
title: CO-CREATE-Ex: Community-engaged Optimization of COVID-19 Rapid Evaluation And TEsting Experiences

description: Throughout the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, rates of COVID-19 have been persistently high in San Diego County's central and southern communities near the United States/Mexico border. These regions predominantly house Latino residents, the ethnic minority community most impacted by COVID-19 in San Diego. In the Phase I project, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) partnered with San Ysidro Health (SYH) and the Global Action Research Center, to co-create and demonstrate the impact of a COVID-19 testing program in San Ysidro, one of the most impacted areas from COVID-19 in San Diego County. To date, the project tested \>10,000 community members (92% Latino) and received requests to scale-out the testing program to additional primary care clinic sites.In this Phase III project, Community-engaged Optimization of COVID-19 Rapid Evaluation And TEsting Experiences (CO-CREATE-Ex) will extend work with the Phase I community and clinical partners to refine, specify, implement, and evaluate an implementation strategy bundle that optimizes COVID-19 testing, expanding beyond current polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing to FDA-authorized COVID-19 rapid antigen testing.
DOI: 10.25934/pr00012504
title: Using a Community-level Just-in-Time Adaptive Intervention to Address COVID-19 Testing Disparities: A Population-based Study

description: In collaboration with community partners, this study will identify disparities and dynamics of COVID-19 testing and infections in three Texas regions; and implement a multilevel intervention that increases access to testing and referrals to follow-up care among vulnerable populations. Using a three-arm group-randomized controlled trial, this study will assess the impact of multi-level interventions influencing motivation and access to testing.The outcomes of this study are measured at the population level and no individual data will be gathered. Analyses of de-identified PHI data from local and regional health departments on COVID testing and infection rates will be used to assess intervention outcomes.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10613040
title: EuroCoAT. The European Corpus of Academic Talk.

description: This corpus is the result is a three-year research project into the use of metaphor in office hours’ consultations involving Spanish undergraduate students. These students were spending a period of time on an ERASMUS grant at a university in another European country (Ireland, England, Sweden, and The Netherlands) where English is the medium of instruction. 

It aims to contribute to the knowledge about office hours’ consultations and the kind of conversations that lecturers have with students from other European universities, with whom they most often do not share the same mother tongue or the same cultural background – which includes, of course, their understanding of university life, the teaching and learning activities that take place there or the systems used to assess students’  academic progress and achievement. 

These recordings were made between April 2012 and February 2013 in the four countries mentioned above. We hope that the data made available through this website will prove of use to other researchers interested in metaphor, academic discourse, or intercultural communication more generally.