COVID-19 Self-testing Study
Purpose
The goal of this clinical trial is to understand how the introduction of an app-based intervention changes knowledge, attitudes, and practices on COVID-19 self-testing.
Condition
- COVID-19
Eligibility
- Eligible Ages
- Over 18 Years
- Eligible Genders
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- Yes
Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- comfortable with communication in English
- 18 years old or older
- owns a smartphone running either Android or iOS operating systems
- willing to download a COVID-19 self testing app
- is willing to receive and send text messages for the study (and fill out surveys
linked from text messages)
- is willing to self-test themselves with COVID-19 rapid tests
Study Design
- Phase
- N/A
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel Assignment
- Intervention Model Description
- Participants will either be given access to the self-testing mobile app or not.
- Primary Purpose
- Screening
- Masking
- None (Open Label)
Arm Groups
| Arm | Description | Assigned Intervention |
|---|---|---|
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Experimental Intervention (App) Group |
Participants in this group will be given access to a COVID-19 self-testing app (SMARTest). Access to the app, given exclusively to this group, will be in addition to the 12 COVID-19 self-test kits participants receive. |
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|
No Intervention Control (No App) Group |
Participants in this group will not be given access to the COVID-19 self-testing app (SMARTest). Participants will only receive the 12 COVID-19 self-test kits. |
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Recruiting Locations
New York, New York 10027
More Details
- NCT ID
- NCT05701878
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sponsor
- Columbia University
Detailed Description
Rapid diagnostic testing has been shown to be an important tool in controlling the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic by identifying people when they are likely to be most contagious and reducing crowding at testing sites. In addition to employer-mandated testing, rapid antigen tests are becoming increasingly used by individuals. A method to promote frequent self-testing would help break the chain of viral transmission, slow the spread of disease, slow the spread of vaccine-resistant variants, and improve pandemic management. The ubiquity of smartphones along with their data connectivity capabilities and onboard sensors make them an attractive tool to complement rapid diagnostic tests and an important component of decentralized testing. Smartphone-based tools have shown high acceptability among healthcare workers for the real-time tracking of rapid test results.