A mixed method research study would be conducted using the Explanatory Sequential Study Design in the town of Hammanskraal. The quantitative analysis from the electronic surveillance database would inform the second part of the research, collecting qualitative data. The results from the quantitative analysis would provide information regarding number infected thus far, age, gender, and common symptoms. What would be important to note is the age group infected, history of vaccination, and exposure to social determinants of health.
The team of researchers
Furthermore, we were able to make more discoveries during the interviews. Two weeks prior to the onset of the outbreak, one of the infected children had visited relatives from overseas in an area recently had a cholera outbreak. The study also shows a high percentage of not vaccinated children in the area, which are contacts to the infected. A vaccination campaign would curb the spread of the disease.
Mr. Minister, the study shows the disease symptoms are spreading more in children between the ages of 2 and 7, and 66% of the children came from the Hammanskraal Primary school. From the lab analysis it was identified from the antibodies produced that some of the children had never been vaccinated.