NCT04631367

mHealth Intervention for Increasing COVID-19 Prevention Practices With Urban Refugee and Displaced Youth in Uganda

Completed NA Last updated 28 December 2021

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Kukaa Salama: mHealth intervention in Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice in 330 participants. Completed in 31 October 2021.

Timeline

1 February 2021

Primary endpoint
20 August 2021

31 October 2021

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	University of Toronto
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	na
Design	single group
Masking	none
Primary purpose	prevention
Enrollment	330
Start date	1 February 2021
Primary completion	20 August 2021
Estimated completion	31 October 2021
Sites	1 location across Canada

Drugs / interventions tested

• Kukaa Salama: mHealth intervention
• Face Mask + Soap

Conditions studied

• Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice — all drugs for Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice →
• Covid19 — all drugs for Covid19 →

Sponsor

University of Toronto

Who can join

Adults 16 to 24, any sex, with Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice or Covid19. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Uganda hosts 1.4 million refugees, making it Sub-Saharan Africa's largest refugee host community and the third largest globally. Adolescents and young people (AYP) comprise half of the world's 70.8 million forcibly displaced persons, yet they are understudied in pandemics, including in COVID-19. Poverty, overcrowded living conditions, and poor sanitation likely elevate forcibly displaced persons' COVID-19 risks by limiting their ability to practice mitigation strategies. There continue to be significant knowledge gaps regarding the implementation and effectiveness of behaviour change interventions on improving COVID-19 prevention practices (i.e. hand and respiratory hygiene, physical distancing). mHealth (healthcare delivered by mobile phones) is cost-effective, aligned with how youth learn and socialize, vital for physical distancing, and has been used for COVID-19 messaging in other low- and middle-income countries. Nested within an ongoing HIV self-testing cluster-randomized trial, this study aims to develop, implement, and evaluate the effectiveness of an mHealth intervention in increasing COVID-19 prevention practices with displaced/refugee AYP aged 16-24 in Kampala, Uganda. Participants will be enrolled in a 8-week mHealth social group intervention program that is informed by the RANAS (Risks, Attitudes, Norms, Abilities, and Self-Regulation) approach to Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene. Using a pre-test/post-test design, this study will assess changes in participants' self-efficacy (e.g. ability, confidence, adherence) in COVID-19 prevention practices.

Publications & conference data

3 peer-reviewed publications reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. Kukaa Salama (Staying Safe): study protocol for a pre/post-trial of an interactive mHealth intervention for increasing COVID-19 prevention practices with urban refugee youth in Kampala, Uganda.
   Logie CH, Okumu M, Berry I, Hakiza R, et al · · 2021 · cited 9× · PMID 34810193 · DOI 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-055530
2. Multi-method findings on COVID-19 vaccine acceptability among urban refugee adolescents and youth in Kampala, Uganda.
   Logie CH, Okumu M, Berry I, McAlpine A, et al · · 2023 · cited 5× · PMID 36883681 · DOI 10.1080/17441692.2023.2185800
3. Kukaa Salama (Staying Safe): a pre-post trial of an interactive informational mobile health intervention for increasing COVID-19 prevention practices with urban refugee youth in Uganda.
   Logie CH, Okumu M, Berry I, Kortenaar JL, et al · · 2024 · cited 3× · PMID 37458073 · DOI 10.1093/inthealth/ihad051