NCT04542343

COVID-19 Risk Reduction Among African American Parishioners

Multilevel, Multidisciplinary, Faith-Based Participatory Interventions to Reduce COVID-19 Related-Risks Among Underserved African Americans

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 405 (actual)
• Sponsor: Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 55 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

African American adults, specifically those managing chronic disease and social isolation, are one of the most vulnerable groups susceptible to COVID-19. This intervention involves a multi-disciplinary and culturally sensitive approach to address two major COVID-19 related challenges in this population. First, this program collaborates with predominantly African American churches to implement Federal and State guidelines aimed at preventing outbreaks of COVID-19 at faith-based gatherings. Second, this program trains church-based health advisors to help African American older parishioners manage their chronic health conditions and reduce psychological distress during the pandemic.

Detailed description

To jointly implement and evaluate a telehealth-based, multidisciplinary, culturally-sensitive intervention with 265 AA older parishioners: (i) To mitigate the negative impact of COVID-19 on the management of chronic health conditions, and (ii) to reduce healthcare avoidance behaviors and psychological distress.

Conditions

• Coronavirus

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Change in knowledge, motivation, skills, resources	Provide/enhance knowledge, modify attitudes, motivate and provide skills and resources to reduce COVID-19 related risk and challenges.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-06-01
• Primary completion: 2022-12-30
• Completion: 2022-12-30
• First posted: 2020-09-09
• Last updated: 2024-05-22
• Results posted: 2024-05-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States