UnityPhilly Response App for Overdose Reversal: Assessing Citywide Effectiveness and Sustainability
Drexel University
Summary
The goal of this clinical trial is to discover if an overdose prevention app (UnityPhilly) can encourage citizen responders to respond and prevent opioid overdoses using the UnityPhilly app. The main hypotheses to answer are: Hypothesis 1: UnityPhilly signal rates relative to EMS calls will increase over time. The primary outcome will be assessed as the total number of overdoses signaled by participants relative to all overdose-related EMS calls, per year. Hypothesis 2: The number of cases where a nearby UnityPhilly participant successfully reverses an overdose with naloxone will increase over time. The primary outcome will be assessed as the number of successful reversals relative to the total number of responder arrivals, per year. Participants will be supplied with the UnityPhilly app, training on how to use the app and respond to an opioid overdose using naloxone, and respond to follow up surveys about their experiences.
Description
This is a behavioral clinical trial, which is has been developed to evaluate and compare ways that people respond to a drug overdose using the UnityPhilly overdose response app. The UnityPhilly app, along with training participants how to use the app, the provision of naloxone, and overdose prevention training, is the intervention in this study. All individuals enrolled in this study are prospectively assigned to use the UnityPhilly app so that there is no control or placebo group - all receive the intervention. By enrolling five different types of individuals into the study, e.g., person who…
Eligibility
- Age range
- 18+ years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria: * owning a smartphone with a data package; * living or working in one of three identified Philadelphia neighborhoods; * aged 18 or older. Exclusion Criteria: * persons aged under 18 years of age
Interventions
- OtherUnityPhilly app
UnityPhilly automatically connects bystanders and victims of opioid overdose with nearby community members who can respond immediately with naloxone.
Location
- Drexel UniversityPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania