CONFIDENT: Supporting Long-term Care Workers During COVID-19

Summary

The CONFIDENT Study is an online three-arm randomized trial that aims to help long-term care workers in the United States feel more confident about the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines. The study will compare two different interventions to usual online information (website of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). The first intervention is a Dialogue-Based Webinar where people can interact and ask questions about the vaccines. The second intervention is a Social Media Website that will feature curated content about the vaccines from popular social media platforms.

Participants will be asked to completed four online surveys. The first survey will be completed pre-intervention and immediately upon study enrollment (Time 0). Participants will be randomized to a trial arm at the end of the Time 0 survey. Intervention follow-up surveys will be completed 3 weeks post-randomization (Time 1), three months post-randomization (Time 2), and 6 months post-randomization (Time 3).

Conditions

• COVID-19

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Dialogue-Based Webinar

One-time virtual webinars facilitated by a long-term care worker and a physician expert. The webinars will include provision of the existing COVID-19 vaccine Option Grid(TM) conversation aid. The majority of time will be focused on answering participants' questions about COVID-19 and the COVID-19 vaccines. An additional refresher intervention will be delivered several weeks later that will comprise of an email with links to a pre-recorded, shorter webinar available in video and audio-only formats.

BEHAVIORAL

Social Media Website

A curated COVID-19 social media website. The website will feature content from different social media platforms. The posts will include information about COVID-19 and the COVID-19 vaccines. Participants will have the ability to like and comment on website content and can re-visit the website as many times as they like. An additional refresher intervention will be delivered several weeks later that will comprise of an email featuring previews and links to a selection of website content.

OTHER

Enhanced Usual Practice

COVID-19 vaccine information on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website. An additional refresher will be delivered several weeks later that will comprise of an email with a link to the COVID-19 vaccine information on the CDC website.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• National Association of Health Care Assistants

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Institute for Healthcare Improvement

  collaborator OTHER

• East Carolina University

  collaborator OTHER

• Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute

  collaborator OTHER

• Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Glyn Elwyn · Dartmouth College

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

OTHER

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2022-02-21

Primary Completion

2023-02-20

Completion

2023-09-20

Countries

• United States

Study Locations