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Chain Referral for Coronavirus

N/A
Waitlist Available
Led By Katherine Elkington, PhD
Research Sponsored by New York State Psychiatric Institute
Eligibility Criteria Checklist
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Must have
Be older than 18 years old
Timeline
Screening 3 weeks
Treatment Varies
Follow Up through implementation phase completion, approximately 12 months
Awards & highlights

Study Summary

This trial will test two methods of increasing COVID-19 testing among people who use drugs in New York City, in order to improve uptake of services like quarantine and medical care.

Eligible Conditions
  • Coronavirus
  • Substance Abuse
  • Opioid Use Disorder

Timeline

Screening ~ 3 weeks
Treatment ~ Varies
Follow Up ~through implementation phase completion, approximately 12 months
This trial's timeline: 3 weeks for screening, Varies for treatment, and through implementation phase completion, approximately 12 months for reporting.

Treatment Details

Study Objectives

Outcome measures can provide a clearer picture of what you can expect from a treatment.
Primary outcome measures
Mean Number of COVID-19 Rapid Tests Taken
Participants Who Agreed to Take a COVID-19 Rapid Test of Those Enrolled
Reach of the Recruitment Strategy Into the Community
+1 more
Secondary outcome measures
Feasibility of Recruitment and Testing Protocols
Participant Acceptability of Recruitment Strategy and Testing Program Scale
Sustainability of the Testing Program
Other outcome measures
Actual/possible COVID-19 exposure
Affective Commitment
COVID-19 Knowledge and Attitudes
+14 more

Trial Design

2Treatment groups
Experimental Treatment
Group I: Credible MessengerExperimental Treatment1 Intervention
In the credible messenger intervention, peers identified as popular and socially influential individuals within their respective communities with lived experience are trained to engage within formal and informal social networks to promote behavior change.
Group II: Chain ReferralExperimental Treatment1 Intervention
In the chain-referral intervention, a discrete number of "seeds" will be recruited from the community partners, trained and incentivized to recruit and refer members of their social networks to receive COVID-19 testing; these recruits are then trained to do the same.
Treatment
First Studied
Drug Approval Stage
How many patients have taken this drug
Credible Messenger
2021
N/A
~500
Chain-referral
2021
N/A
~500

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Who is running the clinical trial?

New York State Psychiatric InstituteLead Sponsor
475 Previous Clinical Trials
153,409 Total Patients Enrolled
Alliance for Postive ChangeUNKNOWN
Argus Community Inc.UNKNOWN

Frequently Asked Questions

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Who else is applying?

What state do they live in?
New York
How old are they?
18 - 65
What portion of applicants met pre-screening criteria?
Met criteria
Recent research and studies
clinicaltrials.govStudy
Leveraging Social Networks to Increase COVID-19 Testing Uptake
Katherine Elkington 2021. "Leveraging Social Networks to Increase COVID-19 Testing Uptake". ClinicalTrials.gov. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04873401.
~124 spots leftby Apr 2025
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