Assessing the Feasibility and Usability of Implementing Professional Use and Self-administered COVID-19 Antigen RDTs in Uganda
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 1,280
- 试验地点
- 8
- 主要终点
- Implementation success
研究概览
简要总结
This study will assess the feasibility and usability of COVID-19 professional and self-administered Antigen-Rapid Diagnostic Tests (Ag-RDTs) through health facility outpatient services and community settings in Kampala and Luwero districts in Uganda.
There are two components to this study:
- Facility-based COVID-19 Ag-RDT professional use testing which will include people seeking care at outpatient departments and household contacts of index participants diagnosed at outpatient departments in four health facilities in Kampala and Luwero districts.
- Community-based COVID-19 Ag-RDT self-testing which will include at-risk populations such as female sex workers (FSW) and Boda boda drivers (motorcyclists) at points of mass throughfare in Kampala and Luwero districts.
Key outcomes target the implementation's success, demand, and usability of professional and self-administered Ag-RDTs.
详细描述
This study seeks to understand the feasibility and usability of COVID-19 Ag-RDT self-tests among Boda boda drivers and FSWs in community-based settings in two districts of Uganda. Ag-RDT COVID-19 professional use tests will also be assessed, among patients soliciting OPD services in health facilities, to support public-sector screening when qRT-PCR testing services are limited or unavailable. Feasibility for the purposes of this intervention refers to core factors affecting implementation success (i.e., barriers, facilitators, user preferences, and acceptability of Ag-RDT use and implementation) and demand (the measure of actual use of professional and self-administered Ag-RDTs in the population). Usability is defined as the extent to which FSWs, Boda boda drivers, and OPD patients, and household contacts of OPD patients self-report their comfort with performing critical self-testing procedures (sample collection, sample processing, and results interpretation) autonomously.
Primary Research Objective
• To assess the feasibility of using professional and self-administered COVID-19 Ag-RDTs in facility OPD and community settings in Uganda.
Secondary Research Objective • Determine usability of Ag-RDT COVID-19 self-tests among FSWs, Boda boda drivers, OPD patients, and household contacts of OPD patients.
Primary outcomes: Feasibility of professional and self-administered COVID-19 Ag-RDT use.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Non Randomized
- 干预模型
- Single Group
- 主要目的
- Diagnostic
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •18 years of age or older or below 18 years and meets the qualification of an emancipated minor (heads a family, takes care of his/herself, pregnant/has children, cohabiting or married).
- •Exhibits signs and symptoms of a COVID-19 infection.
- •Positive screening result for COVID-19 infection using -Ag-RDT self-test or Ag-RDT professional-use test.
- •Willing and able to provide informed consent to participate and comply with study requirements.
排除标准
- •Any study site employees who are involved in the protocol or may have access to study-related data.
- •Treating clinician deems inappropriate to enroll.
- •Those who do not have a telephone contact to report results and be interviewed on phone.
- •Household contacts of OPD patients for self-testing
- •Inclusion Criteria:
- •18 years of age or older or below 18 years and meets the qualification of an emancipated minor (heads a family, takes care of his/herself, pregnant/has children, cohabiting or married).
- •Exposure to COVID-19 (i.e., being within 6ft/1 meter of the index case for more than 15 minutes or physical contact with the index case within the 2 days before symptom onset of the confirmed COVID-19 case (index case).
- •Willing and able to provide informed consent.
- •Exclusion Criteria
- •Contraindication to nasal swab.
- •Had a nasopharyngeal swab in the last 8 hours.
- •Any study site employees who are involved in the protocol or may have access to study-related data.
- •Already enrolled in this study.
- •Community-based self-testing participants (FSWs and Boda boda drivers)
- •Inclusion criteria:
- •18 years of age or older or below 18 years and meets the qualification of an emancipated minor (heads a family, takes care of his/herself, pregnant/has children, cohabiting or married).
- •Must identify as a FSW or Boda boda driver.
- •Ability to provide informed consent.
- •Must be a resident or working in Kampala or Luwero districts.
- •Exclusion Criteria:
- •Unwilling or unable to provide informed consent.
- •Not a part of the population group outlined above.
- •Has no cell phone to convey results and for interview.
结局指标
主要结局
Implementation success
时间窗: 6 months
Proportion of focus group discussion responses on the barriers, facilitators, user preferences, and acceptability to offering COVID-19 Ag-RDT professional and self-administered kits in health facilities and community settings through thematic analysis.
Demand - OPD
时间窗: 6 months
Proportion of COVID-19 OPD cases identified via professional use testing who accept self-testing kits for their contacts.
Demand - Community
时间窗: 6 months
Proportion of FSWs, Boda boda drivers, and household contacts who use Ag-RDT COVID-19 self-tests and report their results.
次要结局
- Usability(6 months)