Mobile Intervention for Increasing COVID-19 Testing in K-12 Schools Serving Disadvantaged Communities: Randomized Controlled Trial of SCALE-UP Counts.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A key challenge for schools throughout the COVID-19 pandemic was finding ways to monitor and prevent COVID-19 cases. While diagnostic testing and connecting students and their families to appropriate resources to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 were recommended, few schools had scalable infrastructure, including information technology systems, to implement these types of measures.

Objective

This study tested a new approach to COVID-19 testing (SCALE-UP Counts) in school settings that used automated bidirectional text messages provided to the school community that alerted parents of students to COVID-19 testing options and guidance on when to test.

Methods

The SCALE-UP Counts trial was designed as a Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial and final a

SUBMITTER: Wu YP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12648121 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature