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 (Completed)

14 March 2019

Geographical area covered

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 (-2023)
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