Research Briefs
The COVID-19 vaccine is available for many children under age 17. Most child vaccination requires parental/guardian consent. Therefore, researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences studied whether parents planned to vaccinate their children and what factors may affect that decision.
Multimedia
In this video library, you can watch and listen as the team talks through highlights of the Causal Loop Diagram Table resource.
We recommend watching the "Chicken and the Egg" video first, which will give a helpful overview of systems thinking and the specific resource, called a Causal Loop Diagram. Once you watch the "Chicken and the Egg" video and have a better understanding of how a Causal Loop Diagram works, check out any of the loops that look most interesting to you.
Dashboards/Data Visualizations
The RADx-UP CDCC Building Community Capacity and Impact (BCCI) Working Group collaborated with the CDCC Group Model Building team to create a visual representation of what helps, or hurts, equitable COVID-19 testing. In this resource, you will see a table with visual diagrams and written explanations of the working group's insights into community processes that impact COVID-19 testing.
A causal loop diagram visually represents how different elements of a system or intervention are connected, paying specific attention to how different elements interact or cause one another to change. Rather than just showing one large diagram with all the insights from BCCI about what matters to increase equitable COVID-19 Testing, we have a table that:
The BCCI Working Group was specifically interested in how misinformation and missing information impact equitable testing. For a walk-through of how to read each loop, check out our video library.
Reports
This report assesses research performance at a very early program stage by presenting an evaluative bibliometric analysis of the initial, relatively small set of RADx-UP-funded research publications. The early signals indicate effective dissemination to both scholarly and non-scholarly communities
Research Briefs
La pandemia del COVID-19 afectó desproporcinalmente a personas latinas. En comparación con las personas blancas no latinas, los latinos tuvieron tasas más altas de casos, más hospitalizaciones y mayor mortalidad, lo que se asoció con sus bajas tasas de pruebas para detectar el SARS-CoV-2. Por este motivo, los investigadores de la Universidad de Oregon estudiaron si adaptar las prácticas de divulgación comunitaria a la comunidad latina podría aumentar la cantidad de personas latinas que se someten a pruebas para detectar el SARS-CoV-2. El estudio se llamó Oregon Saludable: Juntos Podemos (Healthy Oregon: Together We Can).
Research Briefs
The COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately affected Latinx individuals. Compared to non-Latinx White individuals, they had higher case, hospitalization, and mortality rates, which was associated with their low rates of testing for SARS-CoV-2. Therefore, researchers at the University of Oregon studied if tailoring community outreach to the Latinx community could increase the number of Latinx individuals who tested for SARS-CoV-2. The study was called Oregon Saludable: Juntos Podemos (Healthy Oregon: Together We Can).
Research Briefs
Aunque las pruebas periódicas para detectar el COVID-19 son una estrategia eficaz para evitar la propagación del virus, las personas que se inyectan drogas no suelen tener acceso a las pruebas. La falta de acceso se debe al estigma del consumo de drogas en los entornos sanitarios, la discriminación contra esta población, los problemas de acceso a transporte y la falta de seguro medico. Para comprender mejor la eficacia de las estrategias de realización de pruebas en esta población vulnerable, este estudio exploró el impacto de la gestión de contingencias (en forma de una tarjeta de regalo de $10) en la realización de la prueba de COVID-19 en personas que se inyectan drogas.
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Reports
The 2022 COVID-19 Equity Evidence Academy focused on helping RADx-UP projects strengthen their community-centered research aims and advance equity in COVID-19 testing and other public health initiatives in testing messaging and strategies to overcome misinformation. This interactive Data Profile includes in-depth theme summaries, RADx-UP project team interviews, map of conference presenters, and more.
Reports
The 2022 COVID-19 Equity Evidence Academy was focused on helping RADx-UP projects strengthen their community-centered research aims and advance equity in COVID-19 testing and other public health initiatives in testing messaging and strategies to overcome misinformation. Explore the 2022 Data Profile, in PDF form, with in-depth theme summaries, RADx-UP project team interviews, map of conference presenters, and more.
Multimedia
RADx-UP Policy framework for community-based COVID-19 testing addresses common barriers to equitable COVID-19 testing. A policy lever is a tool or approach which focuses on a certain category of policies or practices and is the starting point for analyzing proposed policy changes or interventions.
This short video highlights the foundational components: community engagement, cross-sector partnerships, and regulatory guidance. View and share this individual video, or the compilation of all five policy levers plus three foundational components.
