{"id":6753,"date":"2020-05-11T16:14:29","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T23:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6753"},"modified":"2021-03-17T16:15:27","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T23:15:27","slug":"acceptability-of-app-based-contact-tracing-for-covid-19-cross-country-survey-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/11\/acceptability-of-app-based-contact-tracing-for-covid-19-cross-country-survey-evidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Acceptability of app-based contact tracing for COVID-19: Cross-country survey evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">This large-scale (N=5,995) online survey investigates user acceptability of a contact-tracing app across different installation\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">scenarios\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(voluntary installation vs. automatic installation by mobile phone providers) in France, Germany, Italy, the UK and the US. Results show strong support for the app under both installation<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0scenarios, with at least 68% of respondents across<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0countries<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0indicating that they would install the app or keep it if automatically installed<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. Concerns about cyber security and privacy, as well as lack of trust in government, are the main barriers to adoption.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">These findings<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0suggest that app-based contact tracing may be a<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">n<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">acceptable\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">approach to\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">help\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">control the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">spread\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">of COVID-19.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Altmann<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0et al. (May 4, 2020). Acceptability of app-based contact tracing for COVID-19: Cross-country survey evidence. Pre-print downloaded May 11 from\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.05.05.20091587\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.05.05.20091587<\/span><\/a><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This large-scale (N=5,995) online survey investigates user acceptability of a contact-tracing app across different installation\u00a0scenarios\u00a0(voluntary installation vs. automatic installation by mobile phone providers) in France, Germany, Italy, the UK and the US. Results show strong support for the app under both installation\u00a0scenarios, with at least 68% of respondents across\u00a0countries\u00a0indicating that they would install the app&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/11\/acceptability-of-app-based-contact-tracing-for-covid-19-cross-country-survey-evidence\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[22],"class_list":["post-6753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-non-pharmaceutical-interventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6754,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6753\/revisions\/6754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6753"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}