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

Community partners (e.g., Mexican Consulate) select events for testing and use their usual outreach methods to attract participants to the site and their event. Then, at the community partner's event, the research team holds COVID-19 testing events and the Promotores de Salud health behavior intervention is delivered by bilingual research staff. The health behavior intervention includes: 1) psychoeducation to promote hand-washing, social distancing, mask wearing if unvaccinated, and continued testing to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 and psychoeducation to address vaccine hesitancy; 2) information support and service navigation to address logistical challenges associated with testing and vaccination (e.g., scheduling health care visits, transportation, language barriers); 3) motivational interviewing to explore personal, social, and behavioral barriers to testing and vaccination, and to discuss available resources.

Testing events re-occur every two weeks at the same location and time, based on census density on Latinx individuals for site selection. Outreach conducted by promotores occurs to increase attendance at the testing events. Outreach is culturally responsive (e.g., culturally tailored radio announcements, social media posts, community canvassing, referral by community leaders).