Ebola Contact Tracing Study data

Weiss, H

; Danquah, L; Hasham, N and MacFarlane, M (2019). Ebola Contact Tracing Study data. [Dataset]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. 10.17037/DATA.00001069.

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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.

Keywords

Ebola; Contact tracing and monitoring; mHealth; Smartphone App

Item Type	Dataset
Resource Type	Resource Type Resource Description Dataset Quantitative
Capture method	Questionnaire: Fixed form - Paper, Questionnaire: Fixed form - Web-based, Questionnaire: Interactive
Collection Period	From To 13 April 2015 31 August 2015
Date	14 March 2019
Geographical area covered (offline during plugin upgrade)	North East South West 9.93546 -10.6764 7.14357 -13.3351
Language(s) of written materials	English
Creator(s)	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
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
Date Deposited	19 Mar 2019 16:45
Last Modified	19 Feb 2026 14:18
Publisher	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine