Determinants of Dutch public health professionals' intention to use digital contact tracing support tools: A cross-sectional online questionnaire study.

ABSTRACT: Contact tracing (CT) can be a resource intensive task for public health services. To alleviate their workload and potentially accelerate the CT-process, public health professionals (PHPs) may transfer some tasks in the identification, notification, and monitoring of contacts to cases and their contacts themselves, using 'digital contact tracing support tools' (DCTS-tools). In this study, we aimed to identify determinants of PHPs' intention to use DCTS-tools. Between February and April 2022, we performed a cross-sectional online questionnaire study among PHPs involved in CT for COVID-19 in the Netherlands. We built three random forest models to identify determinants of PHPs' intention to use DCTS-tools for the identification, notification, and monitoring of contacts, respectively. The onlin

SUBMITTER: Helms YB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10866487 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature