The Ethics of Livetracking in Connection with SARS-CoV-2 (ELISA)
- Funded by Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung [German Federal Ministry of Education and Research] (BMBF)
- Total publications:1 publications
Grant number: 01KI20527
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Key facts
Disease
COVID-19Start & end year
20202021Known Financial Commitments (USD)
$155,325.76Funder
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung [German Federal Ministry of Education and Research] (BMBF)Principal Investigator
Prof. Jochen VollmannResearch Location
GermanyLead Research Institution
Ruhr-Universität BochumResearch Priority Alignment
N/A
Research Category
Research to inform ethical issues
Research Subcategory
Research to inform ethical issues related to Public Health Measures
Special Interest Tags
N/A
Study Type
Non-Clinical
Clinical Trial Details
N/A
Broad Policy Alignment
Pending
Age Group
Adults (18 and older)
Vulnerable Population
Unspecified
Occupations of Interest
Health PersonnelOther
Abstract
Given the various measures that are being taken to contain SARS-CoV-2, the ELISA will investigate how livetracking applications are evaluated (descriptive level), and under what conditions they are morally justified (normative level). "Anti-corona apps", based on "contact and proximity tracing", focus on the location determination of users and monitoring of various vital indicators, which identify patterns that may be relevant in the case of coronavirus infection. While some consider individualized body-monitoring to be the ideal way to containing the pandemic, other groups recognize various risks. Against this background, the project will carry out an empirically informed and ethically sound balancing of interests. With a view to the goal of decelerating the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in order to relieve the healthcare system, it shall, as a first step, reconstruct a heterogeneous picture and, as part of a qualitative study, explore two fields of discourse: (a) "medical/health professionals" and (b) critical experts (IT-technicians, scienticts)". Second, a normative assessment will clarify under which circumstances the collection of clinically relevant data is morally justifiable under the premise of informed user consent. Following empirical ethics methogology, interviews are conducted employing semi-structured interviews and combining these with normative analysis. The goal is to achieve a status quo for the perception of site-based monitoring of vital signs and, second, to develop recommendations for ethically justified applications and consent procedures.
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