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N/A N=9,374 Randomized Health Services Research

Best Practices to Prevent COVID-19 Illness in Staff and People With Serious Mental Illness and Developmental Disabilities in Congregate Living Settings

Intellectual Disability · Developmental Disability · Axis I Diagnosis · Mental Illness · Covid19

Enrolled (actual)
9,374
Serious AEs
0.7%
Results posted
Feb 2025
Primary outcome: Primary: New COVID-19 Group Home Incidence — 1.61; 1.40; 0.16; 0.09 New COVID-19 cases per 100 person-months — p=0.89

Study Design & Population

Study type
Interventional
Phase
N/A
Interventions
Generic Best Practices (Behavioral); Tailored Best Practices (Behavioral)
Age
Adult, Older Adult · 18+ yrs
Sex
All
Sponsor
Massachusetts General Hospital
Primary completion
Nov 2022

Outcome Measures

OutcomeResultp-value
PRIMARY
New COVID-19 Group Home Incidence
1.61; 1.40; 0.16; 0.09; 0.69; 0.55 0.89
PRIMARY
Best Practices Fidelity
82.01; 80.27; 85.96; 86.11; 84.98; 86.14 >.99
PRIMARY
Full COVID-19 Vaccination Status Among Residents
73; 77 >.99
PRIMARY
Full COVID-19 Vaccination Status Among Staff
467; 471 >.99

Summary

Best Practices to Prevent COVID-19 Illness in Staff and People With Serious Mental Illness and Developmental Disabilities in Congregate Living Settings is a research study aimed at developing, implementing, and evaluating a package of interventions specifically designed to reduce COVID-19 and other infectious-disease incidence, hospitalizations, and mortality among staff and adults with Serious Mental Illness and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in congregate-living settings.

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

  • All congregate care homes in Massachusetts operated by the following public-sector community-based human service organizations: Vinfen, Bay Cove, Advocates, North Suffolk, Open Sky, and Riverside
  • The group home must serve adults with SMI (Serious Mental Illness, i.e., DSM-V Diagnosis of Axis-I Mental Illness with persistent functional impairment) or adults with ID/DD (Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities)
  • All residents and staff of the home must be age 18 or older

Exclusion Criteria

  • All congregate care homes in Massachusetts not operated by any of the public-sector community-based human service organizations mentioned above
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Data sourced from ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT04726371). Outcome figures and adverse-event rates are extracted automatically from the registry's posted results and are provided for clinician reference, not as a substitute for the primary publication.

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