COVID-19 Mapping and Mitigation in Schools (CoMMinS)

该项目将创造新的知识和工具，帮助学校应对预防和应对新冠肺炎爆发的实际挑战。该项目将在6个月的时间里检测学校环境中的感染情况，并测试教职员工和学生是否现在或过去感染了新冠肺炎。我们每月将对4000名学生和100名工作人员进行测试。将对研究期间在该市发现或报告的任何阳性病例进行跟踪，以确定有关家庭是否与学校有联系(通过学生或学校工作人员)。如果是这样，我们将每周对家庭成员进行为期4周的测试，以提高我们对这种情况下感染传播的了解。我们将使用工作人员和学生邮编来识别城市感染最多的地区，以便为他们提供有针对性的感染控制支持。我们将利用数字支持，完善快速有效的接触者追踪系统。我们将与工作人员、学生和家长合作，调整和使用‘细菌防御’应用程序，以帮助每个人改善他们在学校和校外的感染控制。最后，我们将评估返校对学生和教职员工心理健康的影响，以及他们对这一项目的态度。我们将探讨学校在支持有困难的学生方面所做的工作，并评估哪些活动最有帮助。我们的项目建立在我们团队广泛的非常相关的研究专业知识以及布里斯托尔大学和布里斯托尔市议会、英国公共卫生、当地学校和其他城市利益相关者之间牢固的合作伙伴关系的基础上。

This project will create new knowledge and tools to help schools deal with the practical challenges of preventing and coping with an outbreak of COVID-19. The project will test for infection in the school environment and test whether staff and pupils have current or past COVID-19 infection, over a 6-month period. We will test 4000 pupils and 100 staff members monthly. Any positive case identified as part of this study or reported within the city during the study period will be followed up to establish whether the household concerned is connected to a school (via a pupil or member of school staff). If so, we will test the members of the household weekly for 4 weeks to improve our understanding of infection transmission in this setting. We will use staff and pupil postcodes to identify the areas of the city with most infection, so that they can be given targeted support for infection control. We will improve systems for rapid and effective contact tracing, using digital support. We will work with staff, pupils and parents to adapt and use the 'Germ Defence' app to help everyone improve their infection control at school and outside school. Finally, we will assess the impact of returning to school on pupil and staff mental wellbeing, and their attitudes to this project. We will explore what schools are doing to support pupils experiencing difficulties, and assess which activities are most helpful. Our project builds on our team's wide range of very relevant research expertise and a well-established, strong partnership between the University of Bristol and Bristol City Council, Public Health England, local schools and other city stakeholders.