COVID Screening Strategies in Homeless Shelters

St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton

Status: Unknown

Conditions: COVID-19

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: COVID-19 Swab

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04438070

2020-10864-T

Details and patient eligibility

About

Residents in homeless shelters will be randomized to 4 different COVID-19 screening strategies with the primary outcome being COVID-19 detection rate.

Enrollment: 400 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age greater than or equal to 18
• Able to provide oral consent
• Able to perform a self-collected swab if in the relevant intervention arm

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Screening

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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400 participants in 4 patient groups, including a placebo group

Daily active screening only

Placebo Comparator group

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: COVID-19 Swab

Daily active screening and self-collected nasal swab

Experimental group

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: COVID-19 Swab

Daily active screening and self-collected oral-nasal swab

Experimental group

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: COVID-19 Swab

Daily active screening and nurse collected nasopharyngeal swab

Experimental group

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: COVID-19 Swab