Prevention of COVID19 Infection in Nursing Homes by Chemoprophylaxis With Hydroxychloroquine (PREVICHARM) (PREVICHARM)
Sars-CoV2, Coronavirus Infection, Prevention & Control
About this trial
This is an interventional prevention trial for Sars-CoV2 focused on measuring clinical trial, Hydroxychloroquine, chemoprophylaxis, Sars-CoV2, COVID-19
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Institutionalized people in nurswing homes since the beginning of the COVID19 epidemic who do not have the infection present at the time of entering into the study.
- Healthcare professionals who provide direct care (nursing assistants and registered nurses) to institutionalized older people in nursing homes with confirmed cases of COVID19 during the past 8 days.
- Subjects that give their consent to participate in the study or that it be obtained from their representative / legal guardian.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Staff members who do not provide direct care to residents.
- Residents with active SARS-CoV-2 infection present, or with symptoms compatible with COVID19 confirmed by PCR test.
- Staff members with present or past SARS-CoV-2 infection, or with PCR-confirmed symptoms consistent with COVID19.
- History of QT interval prolongation or arrhythmias of any etiology.
- Presence of retinopathy of any etiology, changes in acuity or visual field.
- Severe hearing loss (requires the use of hearing aids).
- Structural heart disease.
- History of non-structural heart failure, ischemic heart disease, SCASEST, or SCACEST
- Chronic liver disease.
- Alcoholism.
- Epilepsy.
- For the participating professionals, pregnancy or suspected pregnancy (if they are planning pregnancy, or in fertilizer treatment, they must abandon the study).
- Subjects with known HDQ hypersensitivity.
- Subjects diagnosed with G6PDH deficiency.
- Taking other medicines that prolong QT: domperidone, ondansetron, cilostazol, antiarrhythmics (procainamide, amiodarone, flecainide, sotalol), macrolides (azithromycin, clarithromycin, erythromycin), quinolones (ciprofloxacin,), moxofloxacin,) neuroleptics (haloperidol, chlorpromazine, pimozide), antidepressants (citalopram, escitalopram), sulpiride, anticholinesterase drugs (donepezil)
- Denial to participate in the study
Sites / Locations
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
No Intervention
Experimental
Tracking control
Intervention
According to the randomization process described, those nursing homes assigned to the control arm of the trial will receive the same treatment as those assigned to the intervention group, except for the medication, which will be a masked placebo. The study is triple blind, so neither the professionals who carry out the follow-up, nor the patients, nor the person in charge of analyzing the data, know to which group each nursing home belongs.
The dose to be used as chemoprophylaxis will be 800mg of Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) on the first day and 400mg during the subsequent four days. Participating subjects will be followed up at 6, 14 and 28 days.