Pacific Islanders can earn up to $35 for partaking in a study conducted by the University of Guam aimed at learning more about how much Pacific Islanders know and understand about COVID-19.
In addition to completing two confidential questionnaires and providing a specimen for COVID testing, Pacific Islanders can participate in educational sessions in which information about COVID prevention and testing will be provided.
Funded by the National Institutes of Health, the study is actually one of the 69 Protecting Life Projects across the U.S., and that project is a partnership between the University of Guam and the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine.
Both universities are actively seeking to recruit up to 800 participants in Guam and 4,000 in Hawaii.
One of the reasons why the two universities decided to conduct the study is that Pacific Islanders have among the highest morbidity and mortality rates associated with COVID in the U.S.
Visit UOG RADx-UP: Protecting Life Project (google.com) to express your interest in participating in the study.
For more information on the project, please contact a UOG RADx-UP research associate from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays at (671) 735-0215 or via email at radxup@triton.uog.edu. The project is also on Facebook as “UOG RADx-UP Protecting Life Project.”
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