New Jersey Healthcare Essential Worker Outreach and Education Study - Testing Overlooked Occupations

NJ HEROES TOO (New Jersey Healthcare Essential Worker Outreach and Education Study - Testing Overlooked Occupations)

This mixed methods study evaluates the effectiveness and cost of a healthcare worker focused outreach intervention strategy versus community organization led outreach to explore contextual factors (individual, family, and community) affecting COVID-19 testing implementation outcomes and scalability.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Covid19; Health Behavior; Health Care Seeking Behavior
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Healthcare Worker Focused Outreach; Behavioral: Community Organization Led Outreach

Detailed Description

In Aim 2, the investigators conduct a mixed methods study to evaluate the effectiveness and cost of: (1) the healthcare worker focused outreach intervention strategy versus (2) community organization led outreach working with community based organizations. The investigators explore contextual factors (individual, family, and community) affecting COVID-19 testing implementation outcomes and scalability. The primary outcome is uptake of COVID-19 testing using the novel Rutgers Clinical Genomics Laboratory/RUCDR saliva test, the first FDA authorized diagnostic test using saliva to detect SARS-CoV-2 for non-invasive, home based self-testing. To compare participation rates in the two arms, our primary outcome, the investigators will use data on the number of tests performed per month up to a 12 month study period. For each intervention, the start time is the date of first attempted contact with potential participants and the end date is either the end of the study period, or the date at which the 1000th individual was tested (whichever comes first).

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 2017
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • New Jersey
    • New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States, 08901
      • Rutgers University

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 4 years and older (Child, Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria for Community Members and Healthcare Workers

• Self-identification as Black or Hispanic/Latino.
• Resident of Union, Passaic, Middlesex, or Essex County, NJ.
• Parent/legal guardian able to provide permission to participate for those under 18

Exclusion Criteria:

• Under 4 years of age.
• Unable to speak, understand, and/or read English or Spanish.
• Unable to provide informed consent/assent

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
• Allocation: Non-Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Active Comparator: Healthcare Worker Focused Outreach Intervention Strategy	Behavioral: Healthcare Worker Focused Outreach; This a focused outreach intervention strategy specifically designed for healthcare workers.; Other Names: Informational intervention
Active Comparator: Community Organization Led Outreach	Behavioral: Community Organization Led Outreach; This is a standard community engaged outreach approach that has traditionally been used in previous research. Analogous to the standard of care for outreach.; Other Names: Informational intervention

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Number of Participants Who Complete COVID-19 Testing	Number of participants who return their saliva testing kit.	1 year

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
• Collaborators: National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Jimenez ME, Rivera-Nunez Z, Crabtree BF, Hill D, Pellerano MB, Devance D, Macenat M, Lima D, Martinez Alcaraz E, Ferrante JM, Barrett ES, Blaser MJ, Panettieri RA Jr, Hudson SV. Black and Latinx Community Perspectives on COVID-19 Mitigation Behaviors, Testing, and Vaccines. JAMA Netw Open. 2021 Jul 1;4(7):e2117074. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.17074.
• Barrett ES, Andrews TR, Roy J, Greenberg P, Ferrante JM, Horton DB, Gordon M, Rivera-Nunez Z, Pellerano MB, Tallia AF, Budolfson M, Georgopoulos P, Reed D, Lynn B, Rosati R, Castaneda M, Dixon F, Pernell C, Hill D, Jimenez ME, Blaser MJ, Panettieri R Jr, Hudson SV. Community- Versus Health Care Organization-Based Approaches to Expanding At-Home COVID-19 Testing in Black and Latino Communities, New Jersey, 2021. Am J Public Health. 2022 Nov;112(S9):S918-S922. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2022.306989. Epub 2022 Oct 20.
• Rivera-Nunez Z, Jimenez ME, Crabtree BF, Hill D, Pellerano MB, Devance D, Macenat M, Lima D, Gordon M, Sullivan B, Rosati RJ, Ferrante JM, Barrett ES, Blaser MJ, Panettieri RA Jr, Hudson SV. Experiences of Black and Latinx health care workers in support roles during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study. PLoS One. 2022 Jan 18;17(1):e0262606. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0262606. eCollection 2022.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): May 3, 2021
• Primary Completion (Actual): December 31, 2021
• Study Completion (Actual): December 31, 2021

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: February 10, 2021
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: February 22, 2021
• First Posted (Actual): February 23, 2021

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimate): March 10, 2023
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 8, 2023
• Last Verified: March 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: 2020002549; 3UL1TR003017-02S2 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No