COVID-19: Healthy Oregon (Oregon Saludable): Together We Can (Juntos Podemos)

The Promotores de Salud intervention is delivered by a paid Promotor(a) who is a trusted member of the community where the testing site is located. The intervention includes: (1) psychoeducation to increase knowledge about COVID-19 and the benefits of testing; (2) motivational interviewing (MI) strategies to explore personal, social, and behavioral barriers to testing and to discuss available resources to resolve these barriers; (3) emotional support to address testing-related concerns and anxieties that may dissuade Latinx individuals from getting tested; and (4) service navigation. When promotores are on-site at testing events, they will provide information about COVID-19 and preventive behaviors using in-person instruction on effective mask wearing, hand washing, and physical distancing, as well as the importance of repeated testing and vaccines.

Services as usual, our control condition, includes strategies that are typically conducted by county and community-based organizations that serve under-represented groups to notify people of testing opportunities related to COVID-19. These include Facebook advertisements, email announcements, circulation to other community-based organizations and state agencies (e.g., Oregon Health Authority, county public health), and other flyer distribution means. This condition also includes a pamphlet about health behaviors and community resources handed out by testing facilitators at testing events.