Rapidly applicable surveillance process for COVID-19 in day care centers
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- 07.1 COVID-19
- Registration Number
- DRKS00025612
- Lead Sponsor
- Klinikum der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 982
Inclusion Criteria
All children and employees of the included day care groups are invited to participate voluntarily.
Exclusion Criteria
Children who do not have a declaration of consent from their legal guardians are excluded, as are children for whom it is not possible to take a swab sample from the mouth due to an existing illness or if the child refuses the examination. Employees whose declaration of consent is not available are excluded.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Semiquantitative viral load (Ct value) of SASRS-CoV-2 in a pool of lollipop swabs (saliva swabs) is analyzed by RT-PCR 1x weekly for 4 weeks.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method At the end of the study, questionnaires will be distributed to study participants or their legal guardians to determine, among other things, false negative test results and vaccination rates among participating staff, and to assess the feasibility of independent lollipop swab collection.