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Dial-COVID: remote mitigation through telephone symptom surveillance in refugee settlements in Uganda

  • Funded by Department of Health and Social Care / National Institute for Health and Care Research (DHSC-NIHR), Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), Wellcome Trust
  • Total publications:1 publications

Grant number: 51420

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Key facts

  • Disease

    COVID-19

  • Start & end year

    2020
    2021

  • Funder

    Department of Health and Social Care / National Institute for Health and Care Research (DHSC-NIHR), Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), Wellcome Trust

  • Research Location

    Uganda

  • Lead Research Institution

    University of Washington

  • Research Priority Alignment

    N/A

  • Research Category

    Policies for public health, disease control & community resilience

  • Research Subcategory

    Communication

  • Special Interest Tags

    Digital Health

  • Study Type

    Non-Clinical

  • Clinical Trial Details

    N/A

  • Broad Policy Alignment

    Pending

  • Age Group

    Unspecified

  • Vulnerable Population

    Internally Displaced and Migrants

  • Occupations of Interest

    Unspecified

Abstract

This study, based in Uganda, focuses on evaluating the acceptability and effectiveness of a mobile telephone interactive voice response (IVR) symptom tracker/information dissemination tool ("Dial-COVID") for supporting COVID-19 prevention and control measures. The team are testing established technology, already used in LMICs, in a refugee population, to apply the findings to the current COVID-19 response. The expected outcomes are the implementation and validation of Dial-COVID as a COVID-19 surveillance and information dissemination tool, which could be used in other settings; plus improvements in effectiveness and targeting of COVID-19 public health information and interventions for refugees in Uganda.

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Leveraging interactive voice response technology to mitigate COVID-19 risk in refugee settlements in Uganda: Lessons learned implementing "Dial-COVID" a toll-free mobile phone symptom surveillance and information dissemination tool.