Nga Nguyen Thien, Jacka David, Van Hai Nguyen, Trinh Nguyen Kieu, Boisen Neil, Neukom Josselyn
World Health Organization Country Office, Ha Noi, Viet Nam .
Western Pac Surveill Response J. 2012 Sep 30;3(3):29-34. doi: 10.5365/WPSAR.2012.3.2.003. Print 2012 Jul.
The paper tools used to monitor outreach work in all major cities in Viet Nam had substantial writing requirements for each contact with difficulty maintaining confidentiality.
This paper describes the development of a Unique Identifier Code (UIC), a field data collection notebook (databook) and a computer data entry system in Viet Nam. The databook can document 40 individual clients and has space for commodity distribution, group contacts and needles/syringe collection for each month.
Field implementation trials of the UIC and databook have been undertaken by more than 160 peer outreach workers to document their work with people who inject drugs (PWID) and sex workers (SW). Following an expanded trial in Hai Phong province, there have been requests for national circulation of the databook to be used by peer educators documenting outreach to PWID, SW and men who have sex with men. The standardized UIC and databook, in a variety of locally adapted formats, have now been introduced in more than 40 of the 63 provinces in Viet Nam.
This development in Viet Nam is, to our knowledge, the first example of the combination of a confidential UIC and an innovative, simple pocket-sized paper instrument with associated customized data-entry software for documenting outreach.
越南各主要城市用于监测外展工作的纸质工具对每次接触都有大量书写要求，且难以保密。
本文介绍了越南唯一识别码（UIC）、现场数据收集笔记本（数据手册）和计算机数据录入系统的开发情况。该数据手册可记录40名个体客户的信息，每月有空间记录商品分发、群体接触以及针头/注射器收集情况。
160多名同伴外展工作者对UIC和数据手册进行了现场实施试验，以记录他们与注射吸毒者（PWID）和性工作者（SW）开展的工作。在海防省进行扩大试验后，有人请求在全国范围内分发该数据手册，供同伴教育工作者用于记录对注射吸毒者、性工作者和男男性行为者的外展工作。标准化的UIC和数据手册有多种本地化格式，现已在越南63个省份中的40多个省份推行。
据我们所知，越南的这一进展是将保密的UIC与创新、简单的袖珍纸质工具以及相关定制数据录入软件相结合以记录外展工作的首个实例。
