Developing and Testing a Social Network Data Capture Tool to Improve Partner Services

开发和测试社交网络数据捕获工具以改进合作伙伴服务

• 批准号: 10426189
• 负责人: Michelle Birkett
• 金额: $ 24万
• 依托单位: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-08-01 至 2024-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10426189
• 关键词: AIDS prevention; Back; Caring; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.); Chicago; Clinical Trials; Collection; Complex; Computer software; Data; Data Store; Development; Disease; Drug usage; Equilibrium; Ethical Issues; Evidence based intervention; Foundations; Funding; Future; Geography; HIV; Health; Individual; Information Systems; Intervention; Interview; Interviewer; Investigation; Logistics; Maps; Methodology; Methods; Modernization; Names; Nature; Needs Assessment; Newly Diagnosed; Paper; Persons; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Population; Populations at Risk; Prevention; Process; Protocols documentation; Public Health; Research; Research Personnel; Resources; Services; Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Site; Social Network; Software Tools; Specialist; Technology; Telephone; Testing; Time; Training; Trust; United States National Institutes of Health; United States Public Health Service; Work; analog; community engaged research; dashboard; data quality; design; effectiveness evaluation; follow-up; high risk; implementation framework; implementation trial; improved; improved outcome; insight; novel; open source; programs; rapid diagnosis; response; satisfaction; service programs; sex; tool; transmission process

Project Summary Across HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), the real-time understanding of transmission networks of recently infected individuals is vital for the rapid diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of new cases, and in providing insight into how the disease is transmitted, which populations are at highest risk, and who should be targeted for intervention. One of the most effective and widely implemented methods for understanding and intervening upon transmission networks is Partner Services - or interviewing a person newly diagnosed with HIV in order to identify any potentially exposed partners and notify, test, and if necessary, connect those partners to care. Backed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as an evidence-based intervention for those newly diagnosed with HIV or STIs, Partner Services is a foundational public health response shown to be highly effective at slowing the spread of HIV. Unfortunately, the implementation of Partner Services by public health departments is often a challenge. Health departments have limited financial and logistical resources, disease investigators balance competing priorities of building relational trust while simultaneously recording detailed data, and by its nature, sexual and drug network data is complicated and poses enormous methodological challenges during data capture, processing, and storage. In response to similar difficulties in the collection of social network research data, our team has built a free open-source and NIH-funded software suite for researchers, called Network Canvas. By building on the strengths of our existing software tool, we next hope to build a free and open-source software tool that will simplify and modernize disease investigation for public health officials conducting Partner Services, and this proposed R34 will support the necessary formative work. In particular, we will characterize the needs of public health departments conducting Partner Services and develop a detailed specification of the software reconfiguration necessary to meet these needs. We will also develop and implement a pilot of the software within Partner Services at the Chicago Department of Public Health in order to demonstrate feasibility, acceptability, and gather preliminary evidence of efficacy. We will conduct this work guided by Active Implementation Frameworks which utilize a staged-approach and strong engagement with local (e.g., Chicago Department of Public Health) and national stakeholders (e.g., National Coalition of STD Directors) to explore, install, and implement a software pilot into Partner Services. This project will provide the formative work necessary to inform the development of a future full-scale, R01- level multi-site stepped wedge implementation trial in which we will evaluate the effectiveness of Network Canvas in improving outcomes for Partner Services. Finally, this R34 is in the line with PA-18-780 to develop and test a novel intervention to improve HIV prevention, care, and program implementation (Clinical Trial Optional).

项目摘要 在艾滋病毒和性传播感染方面， 对于快速诊断、治疗和预防新病例至关重要， 深入了解疾病是如何传播的，哪些人群处于最高风险，以及谁应该 以干预为目标。最有效和最广泛实施的方法之一， 对传输网络进行干预是合作伙伴服务-或与新诊断为 艾滋病毒，以确定任何可能暴露的合作伙伴，并通知，测试，并在必要时，连接这些 合作伙伴关心。由疾病控制和预防中心支持，作为循证干预措施 对于那些新近被诊断出感染艾滋病毒或性传播感染的人，合作伙伴服务是一项基本的公共卫生应对措施， 在减缓艾滋病病毒传播方面非常有效。不幸的是，合作伙伴服务的实施 公共卫生部门往往是一个挑战。卫生部门的财政和后勤能力有限， 资源，疾病调查人员平衡建立关系信任的竞争优先事项，同时 记录详细的数据，就其性质而言，性和毒品网络数据是复杂的， 数据采集、处理和存储过程中的方法学挑战。为了应对类似的困难， 收集社会网络研究数据，我们的团队已经建立了一个免费的开源和NIH资助的软件 这是一个专为研究人员设计的套件，名为Network Canvas。通过利用现有软件工具的优势， 下一步希望建立一个免费和开源的软件工具，将简化和现代化的疾病调查 为开展合作伙伴服务的公共卫生官员提供服务，拟议的R34将支持必要的 形成性的工作。特别是，我们将描述公共卫生部门进行合作伙伴的需求， 服务，并制定一个详细的规范，软件重新配置，以满足这些需要。 我们还将在芝加哥部门的合作伙伴服务部门内开发和实施该软件的试点 为了证明可行性，可接受性，并收集有效性的初步证据。 我们将在积极实施框架的指导下开展这项工作，积极实施框架采用分阶段的方法， 与当地的强有力的接触（例如，芝加哥公共卫生部）和国家利益攸关方（例如， 国家STD主任联盟），以探索、安装和实施合作伙伴服务中的软件试点。 该项目将提供必要的形成性工作，以告知未来全尺寸R 01- 水平多站点阶梯楔形实施试验，我们将评估网络的有效性 在改善合作伙伴服务成果方面发挥作用。最后，该R34与PA-18-780一致，以开发 并测试一种新的干预措施，以改善艾滋病毒预防、护理和项目实施（临床试验 可选）。