Contact Tracing: A Memory Task With Consequences for Public Health
| Autor: | Lorraine Hope, Jamie M. Robertson, Rachel Zajac, Maryanne Garry, Ayesha J Verrall |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Interview Computer science Process (engineering) media_common.quotation_subject 030231 tropical medicine Control (management) Internet privacy 050105 experimental psychology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Memory medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Quality (business) General Psychology media_common business.industry SARS-CoV-2 Public health 05 social sciences COVID-19 Hazard Variable (computer science) Public Health Contact Tracing business Contact tracing |
| Zdroj: | Garry, M, Hope, L, Zajac, R, Verrall, A J & Robertson, J M 2021, ' Contact tracing: a memory task with consequences for public health ', Perspectives on Psychological Science, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 175-187 . https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691620978205 |
| ISSN: | 1745-6924 |
| Popis: | In the battle for control of coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19), we have few weapons. Yet contact tracing is among the most powerful. Contact tracing is the process by which public-health officials identify people, or contacts, who have been exposed to a person infected with a pathogen or another hazard. For all its power, though, contact tracing yields a variable level of success. One reason is that contact tracing’s ability to break the chain of transmission is only as effective as the proportion of contacts who are actually traced. In part, this proportion turns on the quality of the information that infected people provide, which makes human memory a crucial part of the efficacy of contact tracing. Yet the fallibilities of memory, and the challenges associated with gathering reliable information from memory, have been grossly underestimated by those charged with gathering it. We review the research on witnesses and investigative interviewing, identifying interrelated challenges that parallel those in contact tracing, as well as approaches for addressing those challenges. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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