Determinants of the acceptance and adoption of a digital contact tracing tool during the COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore.

ABSTRACT: The motivations that govern the adoption of digital contact tracing (DCT) tools are complex and not well understood. Hence, we assessed the factors influencing the acceptance and adoption of Singapore's national DCT tool - TraceTogether - during the COVID-19 pandemic. We surveyed 3943 visitors of Tan Tock Seng Hospital from July 2020 to February 2021 and stratified the analyses into three cohorts. Each cohort was stratified based on the time when significant policy interventions were introduced to increase the adoption of TraceTogether. Binary logistic regression was preceded by principal components analysis to reduce the Likert items. Respondents who 'perceived TraceTogether as useful and necessary' had higher likelihood of accepting it but those with 'Concerns about personal data collect

SUBMITTER: Huang Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8914141 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature