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Study Description

This project will use a geographically diverse quantitative survey to assess patterns and disparities in COVID-19 testing and preventive behaviors longitudinally across 6 months, as well as survey the impact of multilevel factors, including stigma and policy. Informed by the results of this survey, and guided by the Information, Motivation, and Behavioral Skills (IMB) Model, we will use a mixed-methods approach to iteratively develop a community-engaged, health messaging intervention tailored towards sexual and gender minority youth and young adults (SGMY) and racial/ethnic minority youth and young adults (REMY) to increase testing and preventive behaviors, provisionally titled Prev_Cvd. This text messaging intervention will be pilot tested by 100 REMY and SGMY to refine content and determine feasibility and acceptability. Given the lack of messaging guidelines for this population, this will be the first evidence-based messaging intervention for COVID-19 prevention among YYA. Developing and pilot testing such an intervention with active input from the community will allow for the intervention, if effective, to be rapidly scaled up and widely implemented to address disparities in COVID-19 among YYA and reduce overall transmission.

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  • Principal Investigator
    • Gregory Phillips II. Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.