The Adoption of a COVID-19 Contact-Tracing App: Cluster Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

During the COVID-19 pandemic, there was limited adoption of contact-tracing apps (CTAs). Adoption was particularly low among vulnerable people (eg, people with a low socioeconomic position or of older age), while this part of the population tends to have lesser access to information and communication technology and is more vulnerable to the COVID-19 virus.

Objective

This study aims to understand the cause of this lagged adoption of CTAs in order to facilitate adoption and find indications to make public health apps more accessible and reduce health disparities.

Methods

Because several psychosocial variables were found to be predictive of CTA adoption, data from the Dutch CTA CoronaMelder (CM) were analyzed using cluster analysis. We examined whether subgrou

SUBMITTER: Hengst TM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10284059 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature