Adhesive Tape Placement on Patients' Masks in the Emergency Department Increases Compliance of Proper Face Mask Use

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Conditions studied: Covid19

In brief

Methods 123 patients were enrolled in a randomized controlled trial at Eskenazi Hospital from April 2020 until October 2020. We permitted patients to either use their own mask (due to low resources institutionally) or we provided a surgical/cloth mask (early on relied on donated cloth masks for patients). Patients were randomized to a control (no tape over the mask/nose) or to the intervention (placing tape over the bridge of the nose of the face mask). Patients were evaluated at 30- and 60- minute intervals to assess for proper mask usage.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT04812184

Run by

Indiana University

People needed

123

Starts

2020-04-01

Expected to finish

2020-10-30

Last updated by the study team

2022-10-04

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• presenting to the emergency department during the covid-19 pandemic
• older than 18 years of age

You may not qualify if…

• pregnant
• prisoner
• not english speaking
• not intoxicated or decompensated psychiatric illness
• not critically ill
• not allergic to standard tape and/or tegaderm

Where it is running

• Eskenazi Hospital — Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

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