Collecting social contact data in the context of disease transmission: Prospective and retrospective study designs

Rafael T. Mikolajczyk; Mirjam Kretzschmar

doi:10.1016/j.socnet.2007.09.002

Collecting social contact data in the context of disease transmission: Prospective and retrospective study designs

Rafael T. Mikolajczyk
, Mirjam Kretzschmar^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

Julius Center, dept. Epidemiology & Health Economics

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Abstract

Patterns of direct contacts between people ultimately determine the transmission rate for airborne pathogens like influenza; therefore, data regarding contact behaviour are essential for designing infectious disease control. In order to collect reliable data about social contacts, decisions about the survey methodology have to be made. A series of relevant surveys was conducted in 2003-2006 among university students in Bielefeld, Germany. Each survey focussed on specific methodological questions related to the number of contacts encountered during 1 day. In this study, we report on the analysis of different survey designs.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	127-135
Number of pages	9
Journal	Social Networks
Volume	30
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2007.09.002
Publication status	Published - 1 May 2008

Keywords

Airborne infectious diseases
Social contacts
Survey methodology

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