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Study design and protocol for investigating social network patterns in rural and urban schools and households in a coastal setting in Kenya using wearable proximity sensors
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Kiti, Moses Chapa, Melegaro, Alessia, Cattuto, Ciro and Nokes, D. James (2019) Study design and protocol for investigating social network patterns in rural and urban schools and households in a coastal setting in Kenya using wearable proximity sensors. Wellcome Open Research, 4 . p. 84. doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15268.2
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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15268.2
Abstract
Background: Social contact patterns shape the transmission of respiratory infections spread via close interactions. There is a paucity of observational data from schools and households, particularly in developing countries. Portable wireless sensors can record unbiased proximity events between individuals facing each other, shedding light on pathways of infection transmission. Design and methods: The aim is to characterize face-to-face contact patterns that may shape the transmission of respiratory infections in schools and households in Kilifi, Kenya. Two schools, one each from a rural and urban area, will be purposively selected. From each school, 350 students will be randomly selected proportional to class size and gender to participate. Nine index students from each school will be randomly selected and followed-up to their households. All index household residents will be recruited into the study. A further 3-5 neighbouring households will also be recruited to give a maximum of 350 participants per household setting. The sample size per site is limited by the number of sensors available for data collection. Each participant will wear a wireless proximity sensor lying on their chest area for 7 consecutive days. Data on proximal dyadic interactions will be collected automatically by the sensors only for participants who are face-to-face. Key characteristics of interest include the distribution of degree and the frequency and duration of contacts and their variation in rural and urban areas. These will be stratified by age, gender, role, and day of the week. Expected results: Resultant data will inform on social contact patterns in rural and urban areas of a previously unstudied population. Ensuing data will be used to parameterize mathematical simulation models of transmission of a range of respiratory viruses, including respiratory syncytial virus, and used to explore the impact of intervention measures such as vaccination and social distancing.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | |||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine R Medicine > RC Internal medicine T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science > Life Sciences (2010- ) | |||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Social networks , Social networks -- Kenya, Communicable diseases , Communicable diseases -- Transmission, Communicable diseases -- Transmission -- Kenya, Proximity detectors, Respiratory infections | |||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Wellcome Open Research | |||||||||
| Publisher: | F1000Research | |||||||||
| ISSN: | 2398-502X | |||||||||
| Official Date: | 29 August 2019 | |||||||||
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| Volume: | 4 | |||||||||
| Page Range: | p. 84 | |||||||||
| DOI: | 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15268.2 | |||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access | |||||||||
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