Clinical trial NCT05123729: Partnerships to Address COVID-19 Inequities
Official title: Community-Academic Partnerships to Address COVID-19 Inequities Within African American Communities
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: COVID-19
Lead sponsor: Wake Forest University Health Sciences
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2021-11-17
Enrollment: 200
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: This study evaluates the impact of an intervention to increase COVID-19 prevention behaviors, including COVID-19 testing. The intervention will be developed through a crowdsourcing contest.

Detailed description: a. The surge of COVID-19 cases has been accompanied by glaring racial disparities in COVID-19-related morbidity and mortality; disparities in outcomes have been most pronounced for African Americans who, despite comprising only 13% of the US population account for about 30% of all COVID-19 cases in states for which race-related data are reported. Infectious disease modelers, epidemiologists, and other public health experts believe that COVID-19 is here to stay and suggest that annual surges may persist through 2025 and beyond. With vaccine hesitancy and delay compromising our ability to attain herd immunity, the best means for controlling the spread of COVID-19 according to public health experts is mass adoption of the 3 Ws (Wear a mask, Wait 6 feet apart, and Wash your hands) and increasing awareness of one's status through testing. As such, non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) are currently our best options for viral control and containment. NPIs that are community-driven and developed in collaboration with diverse partners, including community members, public health agencies, and researchers may offer an acceptable and effective approach to reducing COVID-19 transmission and addressing individual and socio-structural barriers that lead to worse COVID-19-related outcomes among African Americans. Our study goals are to use a crowdsourcing open call to identify exceptional ideas (e.g., messages, videos, communication and dissemination strategies) that promote COVID-19 testing and encourage the public to practice the 3 Ws, referred to as health-promotive behaviors.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* specific zip codes in North Carolina (specific zip codes to be determined)
* no self-reported history of COVID-19 infection
* have not tested within the past 14 days

Exclusion Criteria:

* live outside of study area
* under 18

Primary outcomes:
measure: Number of participants enrolled as measured by enrollment log
timeFrame: Up to 3 years
measure: Number of participants rating intervention as acceptable as measured by a post-intervention questionnaire
timeFrame: Up to 4 years
measure: Change in the number of participants engaging in 1 or more of the 3 Ws as measured by participant report
timeFrame: up to 3 years; up to 38 months; up to 40 months
measure: Change in number of participants who stated that they would self-test for COVID-19 as measured by interview
timeFrame: up to 3 years; up to 38 months; up to 40 months
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Winston-Salem
country: United States
facility: Wake Forest University Health Sciences
state: North Carolina
Study officials:
affiliation: Wake Forest University Health Sciences
name: Tiarney Ritchwood, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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