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COVID-19 Close Contact Self-Testing Study

NCT04847479 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 3

Last updated 2025-02-03

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Summary

Widespread testing and contact tracing are critical to controlling the COVID-19 epidemic. Distribution of COVID-19 self-test kits can augment public health contact tracing efforts, as individuals with COVID-19 can distribute self-testing to close contacts. This approach can increase case detection by facilitating testing among exposed individuals, and potentially ameliorate stigma, fear, and medical mistrust associated with COVID-19 among vulnerable populations.

The central hypothesis of this study is that distribution of SARS-CoV-2 self-tests to close contacts of among individuals with COVID-19 infection can increase case detection compared with a standard contact referral strategy.

Conditions

  • Covid19

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

COVID-19 self-test

Up to 3 COVID-19 self-test kits will be given to individuals who have tested positive for COVID-19. Participants will be instructed to give test kits to close contacts who have been exposed to them.

BEHAVIORAL

COVID-19 test referral

Text messages with testing information will be given to individuals who have tested positive for COVID-19. Participants will be instructed to share text messages with close contacts who have been exposed to them.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Robert Gross, MD · University of Pennsylvania

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-05-06
Primary Completion
2023-11-29
Completion
2023-11-29

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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This page highlights key information. For complete eligibility criteria, study locations, investigator contacts, and the full protocol, visit the original record on ClinicalTrials.gov.

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