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Rapid and sustained contact tracing training for COVID-19 in San Francisco: a training model for developing an emergency public health workforce
The City and County of San Francisco was the first municipality in the United States to institute a COVID-19 contact tracing program. The San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) created an outcome-based fully remote contact tracing cur...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10347383/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37457246 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1125927 |
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author | Martin, Shayanne Kalra, Anika Jenny, Alisa Maher, Andrew D. Foreman, Allison Chavez, Alejandro Gagliano, Jayne Reid, Michael J. A. Brickley, Debbie Bain |
author_facet | Martin, Shayanne Kalra, Anika Jenny, Alisa Maher, Andrew D. Foreman, Allison Chavez, Alejandro Gagliano, Jayne Reid, Michael J. A. Brickley, Debbie Bain |
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description | The City and County of San Francisco was the first municipality in the United States to institute a COVID-19 contact tracing program. The San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) created an outcome-based fully remote contact tracing curriculum using participatory learning methods to train non-public health emergency workers as contact tracers. Between April and December 2020, we trained over 300 individuals in contact tracing skills and procedures over three training phases. Using iterative curriculum design and Kirkpatrick’s evaluation methodology, we aimed to ensure high quality and successful person-centered contact tracing. The resulting curriculum consisted of 24 learning outcomes taught with six participatory skills development activities, asynchronous materials, and one-on-one contact tracer support. We collected more than 700 responses from trainees using various evaluation tools across the training phases, and contact tracers interviewed more than 24,000 contacts after training in our program. Our evaluations showed that knowledge and skills improved for most trainees and demonstrated the utility of the training program in preparing trainees to perform person-centered contact tracing in San Francisco. Local health jurisdictions and state health agencies can use this model of curriculum development and evaluation to rapidly train a non-public health workforce to respond to future public health emergencies. |
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spelling | pubmed-103473832023-07-15 Rapid and sustained contact tracing training for COVID-19 in San Francisco: a training model for developing an emergency public health workforce Martin, Shayanne Kalra, Anika Jenny, Alisa Maher, Andrew D. Foreman, Allison Chavez, Alejandro Gagliano, Jayne Reid, Michael J. A. Brickley, Debbie Bain Front Public Health Public Health The City and County of San Francisco was the first municipality in the United States to institute a COVID-19 contact tracing program. The San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) created an outcome-based fully remote contact tracing curriculum using participatory learning methods to train non-public health emergency workers as contact tracers. Between April and December 2020, we trained over 300 individuals in contact tracing skills and procedures over three training phases. Using iterative curriculum design and Kirkpatrick’s evaluation methodology, we aimed to ensure high quality and successful person-centered contact tracing. The resulting curriculum consisted of 24 learning outcomes taught with six participatory skills development activities, asynchronous materials, and one-on-one contact tracer support. We collected more than 700 responses from trainees using various evaluation tools across the training phases, and contact tracers interviewed more than 24,000 contacts after training in our program. Our evaluations showed that knowledge and skills improved for most trainees and demonstrated the utility of the training program in preparing trainees to perform person-centered contact tracing in San Francisco. Local health jurisdictions and state health agencies can use this model of curriculum development and evaluation to rapidly train a non-public health workforce to respond to future public health emergencies. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC10347383/ /pubmed/37457246 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1125927 Text en Copyright © 2023 Martin, Kalra, Jenny, Maher, Foreman, Chavez, Gagliano, Reid and Brickley. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Public Health Martin, Shayanne Kalra, Anika Jenny, Alisa Maher, Andrew D. Foreman, Allison Chavez, Alejandro Gagliano, Jayne Reid, Michael J. A. Brickley, Debbie Bain Rapid and sustained contact tracing training for COVID-19 in San Francisco: a training model for developing an emergency public health workforce |
title | Rapid and sustained contact tracing training for COVID-19 in San Francisco: a training model for developing an emergency public health workforce |
title_full | Rapid and sustained contact tracing training for COVID-19 in San Francisco: a training model for developing an emergency public health workforce |
title_fullStr | Rapid and sustained contact tracing training for COVID-19 in San Francisco: a training model for developing an emergency public health workforce |
title_full_unstemmed | Rapid and sustained contact tracing training for COVID-19 in San Francisco: a training model for developing an emergency public health workforce |
title_short | Rapid and sustained contact tracing training for COVID-19 in San Francisco: a training model for developing an emergency public health workforce |
title_sort | rapid and sustained contact tracing training for covid-19 in san francisco: a training model for developing an emergency public health workforce |
topic | Public Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10347383/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37457246 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1125927 |
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