10.17037/DATA.00003630
These data were collected in Goma city/DRC by a team from Hope Medical Centre in support of LSHTM team (Dr Mateus Kambale Sahani and prof Susannah Mayhew). Collection was done by an administered survey questionnaire to the community members to explore how humanitarian international organizations operating in Goma city have engaged with the community members to support them coping with the COVID-19 pandemic. The dataset has 16 variables which are all categorical except the participant ID. It contains both independent variables which are the participants' general characteristics (such age group, social group, sex, level of education), and dependent variables which are directly related to interventions from humanitarian organisations or judgement by the community members.
| Variable name | Variable label | Answer label | Answer code | Variable type |
| participantid | Participant ID number | Numeric | ||
| consent | Participant consent to the survey | Numeric | ||
| Yes | 1 | |||
| No | 2 | |||
| agegr | Age group | Numeric | ||
| 18 - 25 | 1 | |||
| 26 - 40 | 2 | |||
| 41 - 55 | 3 | |||
| Over 55 | 4 | |||
| sex | Sex of participant | Numeric | ||
| Male | 1 | |||
| Female | 2 | |||
| socsta | profession (social status) of the participant | Numeric | ||
| non-healthcare professional | 1 | |||
| healthcare professional | 2 | |||
| leved | Level of education | Numeric | ||
| attained primary school | 1 | |||
| attained secondary school | 2 | |||
| attained university | 3 | |||
| fear | How did you feel when the COVID-19 pandemic was announced in the DRC? (fear is equivalent to mental health issue) | Numeric | ||
| Very afraid | 1 | |||
| Less afraid | 2 | |||
| As usuall (normal feeling) | 3 | |||
| Other | 4 | |||
| humpres | Have you seen/felt the presence of humanitarian NGOs to help you overcome the crisis in your community (neighborhood)? | Numeric | ||
| yes, they helped us a lot. | 1 | |||
| No, they were completely absent. | 2 | |||
| They tried a little to help us | 3 | |||
| expect | What were your expectations from humanitarian organizations to help you fight COVID-19 in your community (neighborhood)? | Numeric | ||
| distribute masks regularly to the entire population. | 1 | |||
| place handwashing devices in the public places. | 2 | |||
| distribute personal desinfectant to the public. | 3 | |||
| have mobile team in the neighbourhoods to address people's concerns. | 4 | |||
| All the 4 previous actions. | 5 | |||
| Other | 6 | |||
| expectdone | Of all the above, what do you think has been done by humanitarian organizations in the community? | Numeric | ||
| None | 1 | |||
| Some action | 2 | |||
| vacexist | Do you know that there is the COVID-19 vaccine? | Numeric | ||
| Yes | 1 | |||
| No | 2 | |||
| howhear | How did you hear about this vaccine? | Numeric | ||
| By government authorities | 1 | |||
| By health professionals (doctors, nurses, community health workers, etc.). | 2 | |||
| Humanitarian organisations | 3 | |||
| Through social media (WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, etc.) | 4 | |||
| By a friend | 5 | |||
| readyvac | Are you ready to be vaccinated, bring your child for the vaccination, or encourage a friend to take the vaccine? | Numeric | ||
| Yes, totally | 1 | |||
| yes, moderately | 2 | |||
| Yes slightly | 3 | |||
| No | 4 | |||
| readyexp | Are you ready to follow an explanation on the relevance of the COVID-19 vaccine by a health expert? | Numeric | ||
| Yes | 1 | |||
| No | 2 | |||
| whoexp | If your answer to the previous question is yes, which expert would you like this explanation to come from? | Numeric | ||
| An humanitarian organisation worker | 1 | |||
| A local health worker that I know well | 2 | |||
| Any local health worker | 3 | |||
| An expert from WHO or the United Nations | 4 | |||
| Other | 5 | |||
| I will not accept explanation from anyone | 6 | |||
| actionseen | Actions seen by community members done by humanitarian organisations | Numeric | ||
| masks distribution | 1 | |||
| handwashing devices devices in public places | 2 | |||
| desinfectant distribution to the population | 3 | |||
| mobile team in the neighbourhoods | 4 | |||
| combination of 2 actions | 5 | |||
| combination of 3 actions | 6 | |||
| All the 4 actions | 7 | |||
| No action done | 8 |