Developing and Testing a Social Network Data Capture Tool to Improve Partner Services

开发和测试社交网络数据捕获工具以改进合作伙伴服务

• 批准号: 10082089
• 负责人: Michelle Birkett
• 金额: $ 27.65万
• 依托单位: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-08-01 至 2023-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10082089
• 关键词: AIDS prevention; Back; Caring; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.); Chicago; Clinical Trials; Collection; Communities; Complex; Computer software; Data; Development; Disease; Drug usage; Equilibrium; Ethical Issues; Evidence based intervention; Foundations; Funding; Future; Geography; HIV; Health; Individual; Information Systems; Intervention; Interview; Interviewer; Investigation; Logistics; Maps; Methodology; Methods; Modernization; Names; Nature; Needs Assessment; Newly Diagnosed; Paper; Persons; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Population; Populations at Risk; Prevention; Process; Protocols documentation; Public Health; Research; Research Personnel; Resources; Services; Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Site; Social Network; Software Tools; Specialist; Technology; Telephone; Testing; Time; Training; Trust; United States National Institutes of Health; United States Public Health Service; Work; analog; dashboard; data quality; design; effectiveness evaluation; follow-up; high risk; implementation trial; improved; improved outcome; insight; novel; open source; programs; rapid diagnosis; response; satisfaction; service programs; sex; tool; transmission process

Project Summary Across HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), the real-time understanding of transmission networks of recently infected individuals is vital for the rapid diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of new cases, and in providing insight into how the disease is transmitted, which populations are at highest risk, and who should be targeted for intervention. One of the most effective and widely implemented methods for understanding and intervening upon transmission networks is Partner Services - or interviewing a person newly diagnosed with HIV in order to identify any potentially exposed partners and notify, test, and if necessary, connect those partners to care. Backed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as an evidence-based intervention for those newly diagnosed with HIV or STIs, Partner Services is a foundational public health response shown to be highly effective at slowing the spread of HIV. Unfortunately, the implementation of Partner Services by public health departments is often a challenge. Health departments have limited financial and logistical resources, disease investigators balance competing priorities of building relational trust while simultaneously recording detailed data, and by its nature, sexual and drug network data is complicated and poses enormous methodological challenges during data capture, processing, and storage. In response to similar difficulties in the collection of social network research data, our team has built a free open-source and NIH-funded software suite for researchers, called Network Canvas. By building on the strengths of our existing software tool, we next hope to build a free and open-source software tool that will simplify and modernize disease investigation for public health officials conducting Partner Services, and this proposed R34 will support the necessary formative work. In particular, we will characterize the needs of public health departments conducting Partner Services and develop a detailed specification of the software reconfiguration necessary to meet these needs. We will also develop and implement a pilot of the software within Partner Services at the Chicago Department of Public Health in order to demonstrate feasibility, acceptability, and gather preliminary evidence of efficacy. We will conduct this work guided by Active Implementation Frameworks which utilize a staged-approach and strong engagement with local (e.g., Chicago Department of Public Health) and national stakeholders (e.g., National Coalition of STD Directors) to explore, install, and implement a software pilot into Partner Services. This project will provide the formative work necessary to inform the development of a future full-scale, R01- level multi-site stepped wedge implementation trial in which we will evaluate the effectiveness of Network Canvas in improving outcomes for Partner Services. Finally, this R34 is in the line with PA-18-780 to develop and test a novel intervention to improve HIV prevention, care, and program implementation (Clinical Trial Optional).

项目概要 在艾滋病毒和性传播感染 (STI) 领域，实时了解传播网络 最近感染的个体对于快速诊断、治疗和预防新病例至关重要 深入了解疾病的传播方式、哪些人群面临最高风险以及谁应该接受治疗 有针对性地进行干预。理解和应用最有效和最广泛实施的方法之一 对传输网络进行干预的是合作伙伴服务 - 或采访新诊断出患有此病的人 HIV，以便识别任何可能暴露的伴侣，并通知、测试，并在必要时联系这些人 伙伴们的关心。作为基于证据的干预措施得到疾病控制和预防中心的支持 对于新诊断出患有艾滋病毒或性传播感染的人来说，合作伙伴服务是一项基本的公共卫生应对措施 能够非常有效地减缓艾滋病毒的传播。不幸的是，合作伙伴服务的实施 公共卫生部门往往是一个挑战。卫生部门的财政和后勤资源有限 资源，疾病调查人员平衡建立关系信任的竞争优先事项，同时 记录详细数据，就其性质而言，性和毒品网络数据非常复杂且庞大 数据捕获、处理和存储过程中的方法挑战。针对类似困难 收集社交网络研究数据，我们的团队构建了一个免费的开源且由 NIH 资助的软件 为研究人员提供的套件，称为 Network Canvas。通过建立我们现有软件工具的优势，我们 下一步希望构建一个免费的开源软件工具，以简化和现代化疾病调查 供公共卫生官员开展合作伙伴服务，本拟议的 R34 将支持必要的 形成性工作。特别是，我们将描述公共卫生部门开展合作伙伴的需求 服务并制定满足这些需求所需的软件重新配置的详细规范。 我们还将在芝加哥部门的合作伙伴服务中开发并实施该软件的试点 公共卫生部门，以证明可行性、可接受性，并收集初步的有效性证据。 我们将在积极实施框架的指导下开展这项工作，该框架采用分阶段方法和 与当地（例如芝加哥公共卫生部）和国家利益相关者（例如 国家 STD 总监联盟）探索、安装和实施合作伙伴服务软件试点。 该项目将提供必要的形成性工作，为未来全面的 R01- 的开发提供信息。 水平多站点阶梯式楔形实施试验，我们将评估网络的有效性 改善合作伙伴服务成果的画布。最后这个R34是配合PA-18-780来开发的 并测试一种新的干预措施，以改善艾滋病毒预防、护理和项目实施（临床试验 选修的）。