Using Social Network Analysis to Guide Tuberculosis-Related Contact Interviews

使用社交网络分析指导结核病相关接触者访谈

• 批准号: 8249364
• 负责人: Paul Anthony Fishwick
• 金额: $ 20.85万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-04-01 至 2014-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8249364
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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The project centers around public health safety, with specific attention to contact investigations for tuberculosis (TB). In 2008, 12,898 TB cases were reported in the United States. TB among foreign-born populations makes up more than half of that total number. Contact investigations are a critical public health activity that identifies individuals who have been exposed to a person with infectious TB and who may have been infected. There is a need to improve the effectiveness of contact investigations if we hope to reduce TB morbidity This project will provide field investigators with real-time information that will identify epidemiological connections among people and places. This will be accomplished by bringing together social networking analysis and contact investigation-related information assets on a mobile device dynamically during the actual investigation. The long-term objective is to build a web-enabled, mobile tool that can be used in investigations regarding a wide range of infectious diseases. The short-term objective is to focus on the infectious disease, TB. Through close collaboration with the Southeastern National Tuberculosis Center (SNTC) we will create software on a tablet device to assist the investigator in developing the network. The software will be a visual interface composed of two windows (Network and Data), and will be based on current methods in social networking analysis. The short term objective will be accomplished through satisfying three aims: 1) Aim # 1: using a formative assessment cycle to design and construct the visual interface software for the device; 2) Aim # 2: field the device and software created during Aim # 1, while obtaining interactions between the investigator and contact and recording how the investigator uses the device; and 3) Aim # 3: assess the utility of the device in its ability to meet the objectives and requirements set out in Aim # 1. We hypothesize that the device will yield richer and more productive investigator-contact interviews. Use of the device is expected to result in information that represents a measurable improvement in quality regarding the social network data related to the investigation than would be possible without the device (i.e., current practice). PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The proposed work is to provide the TB contact investigator with a mobile tablet tool with custom software and social networking analysis capability. This tool will provide the investigator with an augmented method of interviewing contacts during a contact investigation by leveraging online web assets. We hypothesize that use of the tool will measurably improve the quality of their field investigations and lead to broader contact applications for other infectious diseases.

项目描述（由申请人提供）：该项目以公共卫生安全为中心，特别关注结核病的接触者调查。2008年，美国报告了12898例结核病病例。在外国出生的人口中，结核病占总数的一半以上。接触者调查是一项重要的公共卫生活动，可查明曾与传染性结核病患者接触并可能已被感染的个人。如果我们希望降低结核病发病率，就需要提高接触者调查的有效性。该项目将为实地调查人员提供实时信息，以确定人群和地点之间的流行病学联系。这将通过在实际调查过程中动态地将社交网络分析和联系调查相关信息资产整合在移动设备上来实现。长期目标是建立一个能够联网的移动工具，用于对各种传染病的调查。短期目标是把重点放在传染病结核病上。通过与东南国家结核病中心（SNTC）的密切合作，我们将在平板设备上创建软件，以协助研究者开发网络。该软件将是一个由两个窗口（网络和数据）组成的可视化界面，并将基于当前的社会网络分析方法。短期目标将通过满足三个目标来实现：1)目标# 1：使用形成性评估周期来设计和构建设备的可视化界面软件；2)目标# 2：实地考察目标# 1期间创建的设备和软件，同时获取调查员与联系人之间的互动，并记录调查员如何使用设备；3)目标# 3：评估器械在满足目标# 1中设定的目标和要求方面的效用。我们假设该设备将产生更丰富和更富有成效的调查员接触访谈。与没有该设备（即目前的做法）相比，使用该设备预计将产生代表与调查相关的社交网络数据质量可衡量改进的信息。