Trust, and distrust, of Ebola Treatment Centers: A case-study from Sierra Leone.

ABSTRACT: The paper considers local responses to the introduction of an Ebola Treatment Centre in eastern Sierra Leone during the West African epidemic of 2014-15. Our study used qualitative methods consisting of focus groups and interviews, to gather responses from patients, members of the families of survivors and deceased victims of the disease, social liaison workers from the centre, and members of the general public. The data indicate that scepticism and resistance were widespread at the outset, but that misconceptions were replaced, in the minds of those directly affected by the disease, by more positive later assessments. Social workers, and social contacts of families with workers in the centre, helped reshape these perceptions, but a major factor was direct experience of the disease. This i

SUBMITTER: Richards P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6886773 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature