An Egocentric Network Contact Tracing Experiment: Testing Different Procedures to Elicit Contacts and Places.

ABSTRACT: Contact tracing is one of the oldest social network health interventions used to reduce the diffusion of various infectious diseases. However, some infectious diseases like COVID-19 amass at such a great scope that traditional methods of conducting contact tracing (e.g., face-to-face interviews) remain difficult to implement, pointing to the need to develop reliable and valid survey approaches. The purpose of this research is to test the effectiveness of three different egocentric survey methods for extracting contact tracing data: (1) a baseline approach, (2) a retrieval cue approach, and (3) a context-based approach. A sample of 397 college students were randomized into one condition each. They were prompted to anonymously provide contacts and populated places visited from the past four

SUBMITTER: Pilny A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7916034 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature