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Factors influencing compliance with quarantine rules
Compliance with quarantine rules is critical to successfully containing or preventing outbreaks.
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Implementing quarantine at home or in quarantine facilities can be problematic. Specifically failure to comply with quarantine rules is a frequent problem. The research literature provides valuable insight into the psychosocial impact of quarantine on affected individual, practical implementation challenges and how relevant needs can be addressed.
To identify barriers and facilitators for quarantine compliance and to derive evidence-based practical recommendations for the Public Health Service on the effective implementation of quarantine in the case of high consequence infectious diseases (HCID) such as Ebola and Lassa fever etc. The recommendations that will be developed in the project supplement the conceptual frameworks for infection control measures for high consequence infectious diseases in Germany. The duration of the project is from January 2019 to September 2021.
Using a systematic literature methodology, existing research evidence will be recorded and systematically processed. This step will be the basis for a further, in-depth exploration of hindering and facilitating factors for quarantine compliance in focus group discussions. Beyond capturing those factors, the focus group discussions should help shed light on the rationales underlying non-compliance with quarantine measures seen in different groups.
Next, these findings will be validated and supplemented, if necessary, carrying out telephone interviews (CATI) with a sample representative of the German population. The data will be analyzed using descriptive and inference statistics methods.
The results of the systematic literature review, the focus group research and the population survey form the basis for expert workshops with public health representatives. In a first workshop, recommendations for the effective implementation of quarantine measures will be developed. These will then be further refined and presented in a second expert workshop for optimization, validation and to achieve consensus.
Date: 20.06.2020
