COVID Screening Strategies in Homeless Shelters

St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton400 enrolled

Overview

Residents in homeless shelters will be randomized to 4 different COVID-19 screening strategies with the primary outcome being COVID-19 detection rate.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

SCREENING

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

400

Conditions

COVID-19

Interventions

COVID-19 SwabDIAGNOSTIC_TEST

Nasal, Oral-Nasal combined or Nasopharyngeal swab

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Age greater than or equal to 18 * Able to provide oral consent * Able to perform a self-collected swab if in the relevant intervention arm Exclusion Criteria: \-

Locations (1)

Various Homeless Shelters

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

RECRUITING

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

COVID-19 Detection Rate

Time frame: 8 weeks

Secondary Outcomes

Number of outbreaks

Time frame: 8 weeks

Enrollment over time

Time frame: 8 weeks

Central Contacts

Timothy O'Shea, MD

CONTACT

905-521-2100 osheat@mcmaster.ca

Marek Smieja, MD, PhD

CONTACT

905-521-6021 msmieja@stjosham.on.ca

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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