Supported Employment COVID-19 Rapid Testing for PWID

University of Oregon

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Health Behavior

Treatments: Behavioral: Supported Employment

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05984966

STUDY00000657

Details and patient eligibility

About

This community-engaged project aims to improve the accessibility of rapid tests through a supported employment program for people who inject drugs (PWID). The program is called Peer Connect2Test (PeerC2T). PWID will be recruited by a community partner who provides syringe exchange services. PWID will the trained by the community partner to become peer health workers (PHW) to distribute SARS-CoV-2 rapid tests to other PWID. Investigators expect that PeerC2T will improve knowledge, self-efficacy, and health behaviors among PHW (Aim 1). The study will use the RE-AIM framework in Aims 2 and 3 to evaluate whether PeerC2T improves SARS-CoV-2 testing uptake among other PWID (RE; Aim 2), and identify intervention considerations (AIM; Aim 3). The overall goal of this project is develop a transformative community-driven intervention in partnership with a community partner to promote widespread access to rapid testing among PWID.

Enrollment: 350 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age 18 and older, understand English

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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350 participants in 1 patient group

Supported Employment

Experimental group

Description:

Supported employment program (Peer Connect2Test) for people who inject drugs to provide SARS-CoV-2 rapid tests to others in their networks

Treatment:

Behavioral: Supported Employment