The Relative Importance of Vulnerability and Efficiency in COVID-19 Contact Tracing Programmes: A Discrete Choice Experiment.

Autor:	Wang Y; Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore., Faradiba D; Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program (HITAP), Nonthaburi, Thailand., Del Rio Vilas VJ; World Health Organization - Regional Office for South-East Asia, New Delhi, India.; Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN), Geneva, Switzerland., Asaria M; London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom., Chen YT; Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore., Babigumira JB; Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore., Dabak SV; Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program (HITAP), Nonthaburi, Thailand., Wee HL; Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.; Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	International journal of public health [Int J Public Health] 2022 Jul 20; Vol. 67, pp. 1604958. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Jul 20 (Print Publication: 2022).
DOI:	10.3389/ijph.2022.1604958
Abstrakt:	Objectives: This study aims to assess the trade-offs between vulnerability and efficiency attributes of contact tracing programmes based on preferences of COVID-19 contact tracing practitioners, researchers and other relevant stakeholders at the global level. Methods: We conducted an online discrete choice experiment (DCE). Respondents were recruited globally to explore preferences according to country income level and the prevailing epidemiology of COVID-19 in the local setting. The DCE attributes represented efficiency (timeliness, completeness, number of contacts), vulnerability (vulnerable population), cooperation and privacy. A mixed-logit model and latent class analysis were used. Results: The number of respondents was 181. Timeliness was the most important attribute regardless of country income level and COVID-19 epidemiological condition. Vulnerability of contacts was the second most important attribute for low-to-lower-middle-income countries and third for upper-middle-to-high income countries. When normalised against conditional relative importance of timeliness, conditional relative importance of vulnerability ranged from 0.38 to 0.42. Conclusion: Vulnerability and efficiency criteria were both considered to be important attributes of contact tracing programmes. However, the relative values placed on these criteria varied significantly between epidemiological and economic context. Competing Interests: The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. (Copyright © 2022 Wang, Faradiba, Del Rio Vilas, Asaria, Chen, Babigumira, Dabak and Wee.)
Databáze:	MEDLINE
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