{"id":9054,"date":"2020-08-14T11:38:13","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T18:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9054"},"modified":"2021-04-13T11:38:46","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T18:38:46","slug":"usability-and-acceptability-of-home-based-self-testing-for-sars-cov-2-antibodies-for-population-surveillance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/14\/usability-and-acceptability-of-home-based-self-testing-for-sars-cov-2-antibodies-for-population-surveillance\/","title":{"rendered":"Usability and Acceptability of Home-Based Self-Testing for SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies for Population Surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"43\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A nationally-representative survey of adults in England assessed acceptability of two SARS-CoV-2 antibody\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">home\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">self-tests (n=10,600 and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">n=<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">3,800), including pilot testing in 315 volunteers to optimize usability. Pilot testing revealed high levels of acceptability but limitations to usability, particularly use of included materials, clarity of instructions, and guidance on\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">result\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">interpretation<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In the main study, over 97% of participants completed their assigned tests, reporting improvements in clarity of instructions but remaining difficulties in use of the test kits.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Over 90% obtained a valid result, and there was substantial concordance between participant and clinician-interpreted results.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Atchison et al. (Aug 2020). Usability and Acceptability of Home-Based Self-Testing for SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies for Population Surveillance<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">. Clinical Infectious Diseases.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/32785665\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/32785665<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nationally-representative survey of adults in England assessed acceptability of two SARS-CoV-2 antibody\u00a0home\u00a0self-tests (n=10,600 and\u00a0n=3,800), including pilot testing in 315 volunteers to optimize usability. Pilot testing revealed high levels of acceptability but limitations to usability, particularly use of included materials, clarity of instructions, and guidance on\u00a0result\u00a0interpretation.\u00a0In the main study, over 97% of participants completed their&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/14\/usability-and-acceptability-of-home-based-self-testing-for-sars-cov-2-antibodies-for-population-surveillance\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-9054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9055,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9054\/revisions\/9055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9054"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}