Community- Versus Health Care Organization–Based Approaches to Expanding At-Home Covid-19 Testing in Black and Latino Communities, New Jersey, 2021
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At-home COVID-19 testing offers convenience and safety advantages. We evaluated at-home testing in Black and Latino communities through an intervention comparing community-based organization (CBO) and health care organization (HCO) outreach. From May through December 2021, 1100 participants were recruited, 94% through CBOs. The odds of COVID-19 test requests and completions were significantly higher in the HCO arm. The results showed disparities in test requests and completions related to age, race, language, insurance, comorbidities, and pandemic-related challenges. Despite the popularity of at-home testing, barriers exist in underresourced communities. (Am J Public Health. 2022;112(S9):S918–S922. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2022.306989 )
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) · Environmental health · Family medicine · Health care · Health equity · Intervention (counseling) · Logistic regression · Odds · Outreach · Pandemic · Political science · Popularity · Public health · Test (biology) · COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Respiratory viral infections research · SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing · Social Psychology · Gerontology
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