Ebola Contact Tracing Study data

Weiss, H, Danquah, L, Hasham, N and MacFarlane, M. 2019. Ebola Contact Tracing Study data. [Online]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. Available from: https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.00001069.

Weiss, H, Danquah, L, Hasham, N and MacFarlane, M. Ebola Contact Tracing Study data [Internet]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; 2019. Available from: https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.00001069.

Weiss, H, Danquah, L, Hasham, N and MacFarlane, M (2019). Ebola Contact Tracing Study data. [Data Collection]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.00001069.

Description

The collection contains four datasets captured in the Ebola Contact Tracing Study: [1] 'summary_data_cases' contains details of the 41 confirmed Ebola cases included in the study; [2] 'app_data_contacts' contains details of the 646 Ebola contacts registered on the Ebola Contact Tracing App (ECT) smartphone app. These originate from 18 Ebola cases (16 were laboratory confirmed and 2 were “secret burials” that were not confirmed); [3] 'paper_data_contacts' describes 408 Ebola contacts who were identified from 25 Ebola cases for monitoring using the standard paper-based system for contact tracing; and [4] 'main_analysis_dataset' contains information on 804 Ebola contacts and their contact tracing monitoring status collected using both the ECT app and paper-based system.

Methods

Data capture method

Questionnaire: Fixed form - Paper, Questionnaire: Fixed form - Web-based, Questionnaire: Interactive

Data Collection Period

From	To
13 April 2015	31 August 2015

Date (Date submitted to LSHTM repository)

14 March 2019

Geographical area covered (offline during plugin upgrade)

North Latitude	East Longitude	South Latitude	West Longitude
9.93546	-10.6764	7.14357	-13.3351

Language(s) of written materials

English

People & Groups

Data Creators	Weiss, H, Danquah, L, Hasham, N and MacFarlane, M
LSHTM Faculty/Department	Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health > Dept of Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Participating Institutions	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Innovations for Poverty Action, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Projects

Funders

Project	Funder	Grant Number	Funder URI
Reducing Ebola virus transmission: Improving contact identification and tracing in Sierra Leone	Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ)	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED