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NCT04830761
Behavior Change in Context to Contain the Spread of COVID-19
NA trial testing Motivation in Hand Hygiene in 425 participants. Completed in 30 April 2023.
31 December 2022
Quick facts
| Lead sponsor | University of Bern |
|---|---|
| Phase | NA |
| Status | Completed |
| Study type | INTERVENTIONAL |
| Allocation | randomized |
| Design | parallel |
| Masking | triple |
| Primary purpose | prevention |
| Enrollment | 425 |
| Start date | 26 March 2021 |
| Primary completion | 31 December 2022 |
| Estimated completion | 30 April 2023 |
| Sites | 1 location across Switzerland |
Drugs / interventions tested
- Motivation
- Habit
- Social
Conditions studied
- Hand Hygiene — all drugs for Hand Hygiene →
Sponsor
University of Bern
Who can join
18 and older, any sex, with Hand Hygiene. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.
Sponsor's own description
Project BECCCS (=Behavior Change in Context to Contain the Spread of COVID-19) aims to optimise and test a behaviour change intervention to promote correct hand hygiene at key times in the short and long term. The study's specific aims are: 1. Optimisation phase: Identify the most effective combination and sequence of three different intervention modules (habit, motivation, social norms), and to assess usability and fidelity measures in order to optimise the intervention 2. Evaluation phase: Test the final intervention against an active control group (basic app content including "Federal Office of Public Health" advice)
Publications & conference data
7 peer-reviewed publications reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):
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Randomized trials on non-pharmaceutical interventions for COVID-19: a scoping review.
Hirt J, Janiaud P, Hemkens LG. · · 2022 · cited 24× · PMID 35086864 · DOI 10.1136/bmjebm-2021-111825 -
Promoting Hand Hygiene During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Parallel Randomized Trial for the Optimization of the Soapp App.
Baretta D, Amrein MA, Bäder C, Ruschetti GG, et al · · 2023 · cited 7× · PMID 36599056 · DOI 10.2196/43241 -
Mobile intervention to promote correct hand hygiene at key times to prevent COVID-19 in the Swiss adult general population: study protocol of a multiphase optimisation strategy.
Amrein MA, Ruschetti GG, Baeder C, Bamert M, et al · · 2022 · cited 6× · PMID 35351716 · DOI 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-055971 -
Promoting Hand Hygiene During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Randomized Controlled Trial of the Optimized Soapp+ App.
Baretta D, Rüttimann CL, Amrein MA, Inauen J. · · 2025 · cited 1× · PMID 40273441 · DOI 10.2196/57191 -
Implications of the COVID-19 trajectory for the evaluation of hand hygiene interventions: Secondary analysis of the Soapp trial.
Baretta D, Inauen J. · · 2024 · cited 1× · PMID 38001051 · DOI 10.1093/tbm/ibad075 -
Implications of the COVID-19 trajectory for the evaluation of hand hygiene interventions: Secondary analysis of the Soapp trial
Baretta D, Inauen J. · · 2023 · DOI 10.31234/osf.io/4q9z5 -
Randomized trials on non-pharmaceutical interventions for COVID-19 as of August 2021: a meta-epidemiological analysis
Hirt J, Janiaud P, Hemkens LG. · · 2021 · DOI 10.1101/2021.08.20.21261687
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- Trial protocol + status: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT04830761 (US National Library of Medicine, public domain)
- Publications: Europe PMC API search by NCT ID, retrieved 10 June 2026
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- Sponsor: as reported to ClinicalTrials.gov by University of Bern
- Last refreshed: 8 May 2023
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