African Americans views of COVID-19 contact tracing and testing

Increasing COVID-testing and contact tracing is necessary to control the COVID-19 pandemic considering suboptimal vaccine rates. We conducted semi-structured interviews to explore views towards contact tracing and testing among 62 African Americans. Based on our findings, participants identified COV...

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Autores principales: Kas-Osoka, Chioma, Moss, Jamal, Alexander, Leah, Davis, Jamaine, Parham, Imari, Barre, Iman, Cunningham-Erves, Jennifer
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2022
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8898856/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35263614
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2022.02.032
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description Increasing COVID-testing and contact tracing is necessary to control the COVID-19 pandemic considering suboptimal vaccine rates. We conducted semi-structured interviews to explore views towards contact tracing and testing among 62 African Americans. Based on our findings, participants identified COVID-19 testing and contact tracing as beneficial, yet medical and governmental mistrust, stigma associated with SARS-CoV-2, lack of access, poor communication, and costs as major barriers. This study also highlights intervention targets to improve COVID-testing and contact tracing.
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spelling pubmed-88988562022-03-07 African Americans views of COVID-19 contact tracing and testing Kas-Osoka, Chioma Moss, Jamal Alexander, Leah Davis, Jamaine Parham, Imari Barre, Iman Cunningham-Erves, Jennifer Am J Infect Control Brief Report Increasing COVID-testing and contact tracing is necessary to control the COVID-19 pandemic considering suboptimal vaccine rates. We conducted semi-structured interviews to explore views towards contact tracing and testing among 62 African Americans. Based on our findings, participants identified COVID-19 testing and contact tracing as beneficial, yet medical and governmental mistrust, stigma associated with SARS-CoV-2, lack of access, poor communication, and costs as major barriers. This study also highlights intervention targets to improve COVID-testing and contact tracing. Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2022-05 2022-03-07 /pmc/articles/PMC8898856/ /pubmed/35263614 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2022.02.032 Text en © 2022 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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