Vale+Tú Salud: Corner-Based Trial to Test a Latino Day Laborer Program Adapted to Prevent COVID-19

The University of Texas System (UT)

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: COVID-19

Treatments: Behavioral: Standard of Care; Behavioral: COVID-19 Group Problem Solving; Behavioral: Booster session

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT06821113

HSC-SPH-20-1389 (Phase 3)

1R01MD016328-01 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine the cultural, socioeconomic, inter/personal and work-related factors that influence COVID 19 mitigation practices including social distancing, hand-washing and Personal protective equipment (PPE) use, to adapt, implement, and test Vale+Tú Salud in a cluster randomized trial to assess the extent to which LDL report increased adherence with COVID 19 mitigation practices 1 month post intervention and to promote Vale+Tú Salud just-in-time results and increase its capacity to rapidly disseminate findings among groups that serve LDL and other Latino immigrants.

Enrollment: 150 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Self-identify as Hispanic or Latino
• Be present at the corner for the purposes of looking for work

Exclusion criteria

• Have not been previously hired to work at a corner
• Symptoms of COVID-19 in the previous 48 hours

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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150 participants in 2 patient groups

COVID-19 Group Problem Solving and booster call

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Booster session

Behavioral: COVID-19 Group Problem Solving

Behavioral: Standard of Care

Standard of Care

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Standard of Care