Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine
Selecting optimized behavioral interventions from an optimization randomized controlled trial on increasing COVID-19 testing for African American/Black and Latino frontline essential workers not up-to-date on COVID-19 vaccination
By Heng S, Ye X, Strayhorn JC and 3 others.
Abstract
Background
African American/Black and Latino (AABL) persons suffer higher COVID-19 infection rates and adverse consequences (hospitalization, death) compared to White persons, especially among frontline essential workers who are not up-to-date on COVID-19 vaccination. Regular COVID-19 testing plays an essential role in mitigating such disparities.
Purpose
The New York Community Action Project (NCAP), conducted in New York City between July 2022 and February 2024, was motivated by the goal of developing an effective and implementable behavioral intervention to promote COVID-19 testing among AABL frontline essential workers. In the present study, we selected an optimized intervention, based on data from the NCAP optimization randomized controlled trial ("optimization RCT"), which was guided by the multiphase optimization strategy (MOST) framework.