New Jersey Healthcare Essential Worker Outreach and Education Study - Testing Overlooked Occupations

Purpose

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.

Conditions

  • Covid19
  • Health Care Seeking Behavior
  • Health Behavior

Eligibility

Eligible Ages
Over 4 Years
Eligible Sex
All
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Inclusion Criteria

for Community Members and Healthcare Workers - Self-identification as Black or Hispanic/Latino. - Resident of Union, Passaic, Middlesex, or Essex County, NJ. - Parent/legal guardian able to provide permission to participate for those under 18

Exclusion Criteria

  • Under 4 years of age. - Unable to speak, understand, and/or read English or Spanish. - Unable to provide informed consent/assent

Study Design

Phase
N/A
Study Type
Interventional
Allocation
Non-Randomized
Intervention Model
Parallel Assignment
Primary Purpose
Health Services Research
Masking
None (Open Label)

Arm Groups

ArmDescriptionAssigned Intervention
Active Comparator
Healthcare Worker Focused Outreach Intervention Strategy 		Healthcare Worker Focused Outreach Intervention Strategy
  • Behavioral: Healthcare Worker Focused Outreach
    This a focused outreach intervention strategy specifically designed for healthcare workers.
    Other names:
    • Informational intervention
Active Comparator
Community Organization Led Outreach 		Community Organization Led Outreach
  • Behavioral: Community Organization Led Outreach
    This is a standard community engaged outreach approach that has traditionally been used in previous research. Analogous to the standard of care for outreach.
    Other names:
    • Informational intervention

Recruiting Locations

More Details

NCT ID
NCT04766333
Status
Completed
Sponsor
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Detailed Description

In Aim 2, the investigators conduct a mixed methods study to evaluate the effectiveness and cost of: (1) the healthcare worker focused outreach intervention strategy versus (2) community organization led outreach working with community based organizations. The investigators explore contextual factors (individual, family, and community) affecting COVID-19 testing implementation outcomes and scalability. The primary outcome is uptake of COVID-19 testing using the novel Rutgers Clinical Genomics Laboratory/RUCDR saliva test, the first FDA authorized diagnostic test using saliva to detect SARS-CoV-2 for non-invasive, home based self-testing. To compare participation rates in the two arms, our primary outcome, the investigators will use data on the number of tests performed per month up to a 12 month study period. For each intervention, the start time is the date of first attempted contact with potential participants and the end date is either the end of the study period, or the date at which the 1000th individual was tested (whichever comes first).