Uganda Police Force - HIV vaccine preparedness dataset codebook

Permanent Identifier:

https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.00001579

Description

Dataset containing information from a prospective HIV vaccine preparedness study in a population of the Uganda police force. All 500 enrolled volunteers received informed consent before enrolment in the study. Data contains baseline demographic and HIV risk data as well as follow up HIV risk data collected quarterly for 1 year.

Data Collection Methods

Data was collected on paper based interviewer administered CRF’s, and underwent quality review before being double entered electronically using Microsoft access. This was later transferred to stata for statistical analysis.

Key dates

Data capture took place between Jan 2016 and May 2017.

Quality Controls

All staff involved in the study have undergone mandatory training in Good Clinical Practice. Details of QC applied are outlined in the associated paper.

Privacy:

The following actions were performed to prepare data for sharing:

• Study IDs that could potentially link the data to volunteers was removed
• Volunteers have been assigned random ID numbers ranging from 21 to 531. Names were not written on the study documents.
• Volunteer ages were removed and assigned age categories instead.
• The visit dates were removed.

Ethics

The study was approved by the Uganda Virus Research Institute, Research Ethics Committee on 17-Nov-2015(GC/127/15/11/537) and the Uganda National Council of Science and Technology on 30-Nov-2015(SS 3974).

Keywords

HIV Vaccine preparedness, Police, HIV risk

Language of written material

English was used within the data set

Project title

Feasibility and acceptability of establishing a cohort for HIV prevention research in the Uganda Police Force: A prospective study

Funder/Sponsor

International AIDS Vaccine Initiative

Grant Number

N/A

Data Creators

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