信息化战略以确保检测:美国东南部城市无家可归人口对冠状病毒检测的看法
Colleen Bell1,2, Theodore Bosi2, Barbara L Gracious2,3,4
1Sulzbacher Center, Jacksonville, FL.
HCA healthcare journal of medicine
|July 10, 2023
概括
了解无家可归者对病毒检测的态度对于公共卫生至关重要. 教育和社区支持等策略可以改善这个弱势群体的测试参与率.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 流行病学 流行病学
- 社会科学 社会科学 社会科学
背景情况:
- 无家可归的人群在病毒流行病期间面临更高的暴露风险和脆弱性,原因是伴随疾病.
- 关于无家可归者对病毒检测的看法和动机的研究有限.
- 了解这些态度对于有效的公共卫生干预和社区保护至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 调查无家可归者的态度,信仰和动机,在流行病期间对病毒检测进行病毒检测.
- 确定影响无家可归人口参与测试意愿的因素.
- 为改善高风险社区测试普及的战略提供信息.
主要方法:
- 在佛罗里达州杰克逊维尔州杜瓦尔县的八个SARS-CoV-2测试站点进行了一项横截面调查和质量改进项目,为无家可归人口提供服务.
- 从764名参与者中收集了人口统计数据和关于测试的信念和态度的检查清单.
- 对679名参与者进行了COVID-19鼻抽样测试.
主要成果:
- 大多数被接近的无家可归者完成了调查 (N=764) 并接受了测试 (n=679).
- 59.2%的参与者希望进行测试,而4.6%的人拒绝了.
- 测试的关键动机包括好奇心,信仰和庇护所鼓励;减少测试的原因也包括庇护所鼓励和好奇心. 一张10美元的礼品卡并没有显著影响测试欲望.
结论:
- 包括教育,激励,庇护所工作人员鼓励和社区支持在内的各种策略可以加强无家可归人口参与测试活动.
- 了解不同地区和不同人口的不同信仰和态度对于定制激励策略至关重要.
- 建议进行进一步的定性研究,以补充发现并完善测试推广工作.
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