OVERVIEW
STUDY DATES: 2021 – 2025
San Diego State University (SDSU), a designated Hispanic-serving institution, partnered with Sweetwater Union High School District, an independent public school district serving 90% ethnic minority and a high proportion of socioeconomically disadvantaged students, and other community partners, to generate evidence for effective and feasible COVID-19 testing for middle school students and staff as part of broader COVID-19 mitigation strategies including vaccination to return students back to school safely.
STUDY AIMS
Aim 1. Determine if providing free at-home COVID-19 rapid antigen testing kits produces equivalent participation in school screening testing as on-site school testing.
Aim 2. Evaluate if a family-based model of making testing available to family members enhances participation.
Aims 3 and 4. Study implementation of the program to inform scale-up to additional schools and identify resources needed to ensure ongoing high participation rates.
Principal Investigators (PI)
Susan M. Kiene, PhD, MPH
Eyal Oren, PhD, MS
Corinne McDaniels Davidson, PhD, MPH
PI Affiliation
San Diego State University School of Public Health, San Diego, California, USA
PARTNERS
- Sweetwater Union High School District
- SBCS
LOCATION
San Diego County, California, USA
FUNDER: National Institutes of Health, Office of the Director; Administered by Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Funded under the NIH RADx Underserved Populations (RADx-UP) initiative to help speed innovation in the development and implementation of COVID-19 testing. Visit https://radx-up.org for more information.
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OUTCOMES and PUBLICATIONS
Publications: Site-Specific
McDaniels-Davidson C, Arechiga-Romero M, Snyder T, Chris N, Sturgis K, Moore V, Bravo R, Famania-Martinez L, Oren E, Kiene SM. Development of an At-Home COVID-19 Test Results-Reporting System for a School District Primarily Serving Underrepresented Minority Groups, San Diego, CA, 2021-2022. Am J Public Health. 2022 Nov;112(S9):S883-S886. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2022.307073. Epub 2022 Oct 20. PMID: 36265090; PMCID: PMC9707717. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2022.307073
Kiene SM, McDaniels-Davidson C, Lin CD, Rodriguez T, Chris N, Bravo R, Moore V, Snyder T, Arechiga-Romero M, Famania-Martinez L, Carbuccia J, Pinuelas-Morineau R, Oren E. At-Home Versus Onsite COVID-19 School-based Testing: A Randomized Noninferiority Trial. Pediatrics. 2023 Jul 1;152(Suppl 1):e2022060352F. doi: 10.1542/peds.2022-060352F. PMID: 37394511; PMCID: PMC10312284. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2022-060352F
Presentations: Site-Specific
Kiene, S. M., Miller, A. P., Tuhebwe, D., Moody, J., Famania, L., Moore, R. V., Oren, E., & McDaniels-Davidson, C. (2024, December). Unlocking Insights of Implementation Success: Using the CFIR to Extrapolate Lessons Learned from a School-Based COVID-19 Testing Program to Inform Broader Public Health Strategies. Oral presentation at the 17th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health, Arlington, VA.
Kiene SM, Miller AP, Cabellos D, Sanchez,C, Moody J, Oren E, Famania-Martinez L, Bravo R, Moore V, McDaniels-Davidson C. (2023, December). Using CFIR to determine initial and ongoing support required to scale-up and sustain school-based COVID-19 testing: Qualitative findings from a non-inferiority trial in three predominantly Latinx-serving middle schools in San Diego County, California. Oral presentation at the 16th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health, Arlington, VA, United States.
Publications: Multisite Collaborations
Goldman JL, Kalu IC, Schuster JE, Erickson T, Kenner Mast D, Zimmerman K, Benjamin DK Jr., Kalb L, Gurnett C, Newland JG, Sherby M, Godambe M, Shinde N, Watterson T, Walsh T, Foxe J, Zand M, Dewhurst S, Coller R, Demuri GP, Archuleta S, Ko LK, Inkelas M, Manuel V, Lee R, Oh H, Murugan V, Kramer J, Okihiro M, Gwynn L, Pulgaron E, McCulloh R, Broadhurst J, McDaniels-Davidson C, Kiene SM, Oren E, Wu Y, Wetter D, Stump T, Brookhart A, Fist A, Haroz E. Building School-Academic Partnerships to Implement COVID-19 Testing in Underserved Populations. Pediatrics July 2023; 152 (Supplement 1): e2022060352C. 10.1542/peds.2022-060352C. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2022-060352C
Schuster JE, Erickson TR, Goldman JL, Benjamin DK, Brookhart MA, Dewhurst S, Fist A, Foxe J, Godambe M, Gwynn L, Kiene SM, Keener Mast D, McDaniels-Davidson C, Newland JG, Oren E, Selvarangan R, Shinde N, Walsh T, Watterson T, Zand M, Zimmerman KO, Kalu IC. Utilization and Impact of Symptomatic and Exposure SARS-CoV-2 Testing in K-12 Schools. Pediatrics. 2023Jul 1;152(Suppl 1):e2022060352I. doi: 10.1542/peds.2022-060352I. PMID: 37394504; PMCID: PMC10312273. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2022-060352I
Keener Mast D, Gwynn L, Johnson SB, McDaniels-Davidson C, Hoffman R, Pulgaron ER, D’Agostino EM, Ko LK, Goldman JL, Drain PK, Schuster JE, Duran MC, Kiene SM, Oren E, Corneli A. A Multi-Study Synthesis of Facilitators and Barriers to SARS-CoV-2 Testing Enrollment in School Settings. Pediatrics. 2023Jul 1;152(Suppl 1):e2022060352J. doi: 10.1542/peds.2022-060352J. PMID: 37394502; PMCID: PMC10312272. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2022-060352J
Uthappa DM, Mann TK, Goldman JL, Schuster JE, Newland JG, Anderson WB, Dozier A, Inkelas M, Foxe JJ, Gwynn L, Gurnett CA, McDaniels-Davidson C, Walsh T, Watterson T, Holden-Wiltse J, Potts JM, D’Agostino EM, Zandi K, Corbett A, Spallina S, DeMuri GP, Wu YP, Pulgaron ER, Kiene SM, Oren E, Allison-Burbank JD, Okihiro M, Lee RE, Johnson SB, Stump TK, Coller RJ, Mast DK, Haroz EE, Kemp S, Benjamin DK, Zimmerman KO. Common Data Element Collection in Underserved School Communities: Challenges and Recommendations. Pediatrics. 2023Jul 1;152(Suppl 1):e2022060352N. doi: 10.1542/peds.2022-060352N. PMID: 37394503; PMCID: PMC10312277. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2022-060352N
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