NCT04866589

COVID-19: The Effectiveness of Free Face Mask Distribution

The Effectiveness of Distributing Free Face Masks to Increase Use of Face Masks During the COVID-19 Pandemic. A Randomised Experiment in Stovner District, Oslo, Norway

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 9 (actual)
• Sponsor: Norwegian Institute of Public Health · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 12 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The investigators will carry out a randomised trial of free face mask distribution in Stovner District, Oslo, Norway. Ten grocery stores will serve as study sites. Over three weeks the stores will be randomised daily to having "corona hosts" outside their entrance, handing out face masks to customers. The investigators will compare the proportion of customers who wear face masks as they enter the store in stores with or without face mask distribution.

Conditions

• Covid19

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Distribution of free face masks	"Corona hosts" will be placed at the entrance of the intervention stores, and hand out face masks to customers entering the store.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-05-03
• Primary completion: 2021-05-21
• Completion: 2021-05-21
• First posted: 2021-04-30
• Last updated: 2022-04-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Norway