Outbreak Investigation

For the quantitative component, let's do a survey, and interview the patients using close-ended questions to collect more demographic variables such as age, gender, place of residence, contact persons, and travel history.
Task team discussing mixed-methods data collection: Epidemiologists, Laboratory Technologists and Clinicians
Lets review, the patient records, and compare the symptoms to known diseases, then conduct laboratory tests to confirm the disease.
Lets interview the people using open-ended questions to collect the qualitative data, to understand their perceptions about the use of vaccines as an intervention strategy to control the new disease.
Task team discussing mixed-methods data analysis: Epidemiologists, Laboratory Technologists and Clinicians
We will analyze the survey and patient records data to determine the prevalence and infection rate of the disease.
Lets also employ statistical analysis on the quantitative data to determine association between demographic variables and susceptibility to infection.
The themes that we will create from the qualitative data will enable us to determine the possible drivers of hesitancy towards the suggested intervention strategies, such as vaccination.