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Outreach to Low-Income Homebound Older Adults to Increase Access to COVID-19 Self-Test Kits, Missouri, 2022

Published:2024-01 Issue:S1 Volume:114 Page:S65-S68
ISSN:0090-0036
Container-title:American Journal of Public Health
language:en
Short-container-title:Am J Public Health

Author:

Skinner Karen E.¹,Stoever Anneliese¹,Zakibe John R.¹,Butler Taylor¹,Kreuter Matthew W.¹

Affiliation:

1. Karen Skinner, Taylor Butler, and Matthew W. Kreuter are with Washington University in St Louis, Brown School, Health Communication Research Laboratory, St Louis, MO. Anneliese Stoever and John R. Zakibe are with St Louis Area Agency on Aging, St Louis City Department of Human Services, St Louis, MO.

Abstract

COVID-19 self-test kits were distributed to low-income, older adults (n = 2532) with their home-delivered or congregate meals in May 2022. Later, a convenience sample (n = 1108) were contacted for follow-up, and 606 (55%) were reached. Among 79% who remembered getting the test, only 34% already had a test kit, but nearly all liked receiving it (91%) and reported they would use or had used it (93%). Partnering with meal-delivery service providers was feasible to increase access to COVID-19 self-tests for low-income older adults. (Am J Public Health. 2024;114(S1):S65–S68. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2023.307485 )

Publisher

American Public Health Association

Subject

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Link

https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.2105/AJPH.2023.307485

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