Minnesota COVID-19 Testing Project

Summary

The goal of this project is to help the state of Minnesota understand why individuals are not getting tested and potentially identify trusted individuals or organizations that could be used in follow-up work to send messages. Investigators focus on the first two issues of unit and item nonresponse, which is not random across the population and thus could lead to nonresponse bias. To do so, investigators are deploying flyers through 10 Twin City area food shelves and potentially through public housing units with information on how to answer an online questionnaire.

Conditions

• Covid19
• Infectious Disease

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

A $10 Survey Incentive

Individuals see a 10 dollar incentive on the flyers advertising the baseline survey.

BEHAVIORAL

A $20 Survey Incentive

Individuals see a 10 dollar incentive on the flyers advertising the baseline survey.

BEHAVIORAL

Emphasis of Government Involvement

Individuals see a message emphasizing the involvement of the government in the study,

BEHAVIORAL

Emphasis of Academic Researchers Involvement

Individuals see a message emphasizing the involvement of academic researchers in the study,

BEHAVIORAL

Cost-Benefit Frame

Individuals will see messaging that emphasizes the public health benefits of answering the survey questions in the baseline survey (cost-benefit frame).

BEHAVIORAL

Duty Frame

Individuals will see messaging that emphasizes an individual's responsibility to their community in the baseline survey (duty frame),

BEHAVIORAL

Racial/Ethnic Frame

Individuals will see messaging that emphasizes the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on certain ethnic and racial groups in the baseline survey.

BEHAVIORAL

No Messaging

Individuals will see no messaging in the baseline survey.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab

  collaborator OTHER

• Government of Minnesota Office of Management and Budget

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Harvard University

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Marcella Alsan, MD, MPH, PhD · Harvard Kennedy School

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

DOUBLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2020-09-28

Primary Completion

2022-08-31

Completion

2022-08-31

Countries

• United States

Study Locations