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COVID-19: The Effectiveness of Free Face Mask Distribution

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Norwegian Institute of Public Health

Status

Completed

Conditions

Covid19

Treatments

Behavioral: Distribution of free face masks

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04866589
FaceMaskRCT Stovner

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators will carry out a randomised trial of free face mask distribution in Stovner District, Oslo, Norway. Ten grocery stores will serve as study sites. Over three weeks the stores will be randomised daily to having "corona hosts" outside their entrance, handing out face masks to customers. The investigators will compare the proportion of customers who wear face masks as they enter the store in stores with or without face mask distribution.

Enrollment

9 patients

Sex

All

Ages

12+ years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

All grocery stores in the Stovner district are eligible as long as they have not, or only sporadically, had free distribution of face masks previously.

At the customer level, we will only include those 12 years or older (age based on the outcome assessor's judgement).

Trial design

Primary purpose

Prevention

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Crossover Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

9 participants in 2 patient groups

Distribution of free face masks
Experimental group
Description:
Face masks will be handed out for free to all customers entering the grocery stores.
Treatment:
Behavioral: Distribution of free face masks
Control
No Intervention group
Description:
Business as usual.

Trial contacts and locations

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