Clinical trial NCT04893265: Getting Asian Americans INFORMED to Facilitate COVID-19 Testing and Vaccination
Official title: Getting Asian Americans INFORMED to Facilitate COVID-19 Testing and Vaccination
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Educational Activities
Keywords: COVID-19 Testing
COVID-19 Vaccination
Asian Americans
Peer Education
Immigrants
Chinese American
Hmong American
Vietnamese American
Lead sponsor: University of California, San Francisco
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Chinese Community Health Resource Center
name: University of California, Davis
name: University of California, Merced
name: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
First posted: 2021-05-19
Enrollment: 247
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: Randomized trial
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: This study develops and evaluates the "INdividual and Family-Oriented Responsive Messaging EDucation" (INFORMED) intervention in increasing knowledge about COVID-19 testing and decreasing decisional conflicts of getting tested for COVID-19. A 2-arm randomized controlled trial will compare INFORMED delivered by LHW educational outreach plus Short Message Service (SMS) text messaging to SMS text with LHW support.

Detailed description: This project "Getting Asian Americans INFORMED to Facilitate COVID-19 Testing and Vaccinations" is to identify and address sociocultural, ethical and behavioral barriers related to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) testing and vaccination to enable Asian Americans to make well-informed decisions about getting tested for COVID-19. Asian Americans have experienced high rates of COVID-19 related hospitalization and mortality rates when compared to non-Hispanic whites particularly among those who tested positive. Excess COVID-19 related deaths observed in Asian Americans are in part due to under-testing or delayed testing. Asian Americans may face multiple challenges, including sociocultural (limited English proficiency, lack of trust, excess fears and social stigma related COVID-19), ethical (lack of proven benefits of various guidelines, unequal access to testing resources), and behavioral (tobacco and e-cigarette use, other competitive behaviors) factors. The pandemic is rapidly evolving and presents urgent needs to develop highly efficient channels to communicate accurate, easily comprehensive, cultural appropriate and practical information. This application is a supplement to a parent R01 "A Family-Focused Intervention for Asian American Male Smokers," as known to the public as a community-based intervention research program "Healthy Family Project." Leveraging the community partnerships and the individual / family-based LHW intervention approaches developed by the study team, the proposed aims are: (1)Develop and evaluate "INdividual and Family-Oriented Responsive Messaging EDucation" (INFORMED) intervention in increasing knowledge about COVID-19 testing and decreasing decisional conflicts of getting tested for COVID-19. A 2-arm randomized controlled trial will compare INFORMED delivered by LHW educational outreach plus SMS text messaging to SMS text with LHW support. (2) Conduct in-depth prospective investigation of sociocultural, ethical and behavioral factors related to COVID-19 testing in Chinese, Hmong and Vietnamese American over-time. In addition, factors affecting acceptance for vaccination research trial participation and vaccination uptake and how vaccination acceptance is associated with COVID-19 testing uptake will be explored.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* age 18 and older
* self-identify as Chinese, Hmong or Vietnamese
* able to read and/or speak: English, Chinese (Cantonese/Mandarin), Hmong or Vietnamese;
* have access to a mobile phone to receive SMS text messages

Exclusion Criteria:

* unwilling to receive SMS text messages from the project

Primary outcomes:
measure: Decisional Conflict for Getting Tested for COVID-19
timeFrame: Week 16
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Tested for COVID-19 During the Past Month
timeFrame: Week 16
measure: COVID-19 Testing Intention
timeFrame: Week 16
Other outcomes:
measure: Decisional Conflicts for Getting Vaccinated for COVID-19 Score
timeFrame: Week 16
Locations:
city: Fresno
country: United States
facility: The Fresno Center
state: California
city: San Francisco
country: United States
facility: Chinese Community Health Resource Center
state: California
city: San Jose
country: United States
facility: Immigrant Resettlement & Cultural Center Inc
state: California
Study officials:
affiliation: University of California, San Francisco
name: Janice Y Tsoh, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Cheng J, Tsoh JY, Guan A, Luu M, Nguyen IV, Tan R, Thao C, Yu E, Lor D, Pham M, Choi J, Kim M, Stewart SL, Burke NJ. Engaging Asian American Communities During the COVID-19 Era Tainted With Anti-Asian Hate and Distrust. Am J Public Health. 2022 Nov;112(S9):S864-S868. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2022.306952. Epub 2022 Sep 15. No abstract available.