Abuhammad Sawsan, Khabour Omar F, Alzoubi Karem H
Department of Maternal and Child Health, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid 22110, Jordan.
Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid 22110, Jordan.
Patient Prefer Adherence. 2020 Sep 18;14:1639-1647. doi: 10.2147/PPA.S276183. eCollection 2020.
The contact-tracing COVID-19 technology allows for tracing people that come in contact to individuals with COVID-19 wherever they are located. The number of tracing COVID-19 infection technology and devices is rapidly increasing. This has prompted many researchers to study the acceptability and ethical issues related to the implementation of such technology.
The purpose of this study was to determine the acceptability of COVID-19 contact-tracing technology and ethical issues of use.
A cross-sectional questionnaire-based study was used. The target population was Jordanian adults (>18 years). The survey was distributed to a convenience sample of 2000 general public in Jordan.
The results found that the number of people who accept to use COVID-19 contact-tracing technology was 71.6%. However, the percentage of people who were using this technology was 37.8. The main ethical concerns for many of participants were privacy, voluntariness, and beneficence of the data. Only income and living area were predictors for acceptability and use of tracing technology (p≤ 0.01).
The majority of Jordanians accept the implementation of contact-tracing technology for COVID-19 infection. Among ethical concerns of the implementation of such technology were privacy, beneficence and voluntariness.
The results of this study would help in improving the state of science regarding acceptability to use contact-tracing technology for health purposes. Moreover, the present findings provide evidence of predictors of acceptance and ethical concerns among Jordanian population about COVID-19 contact-tracing technology.
新冠病毒接触者追踪技术能够追踪与新冠病毒感染者有过接触的人员，无论这些感染者身处何地。追踪新冠病毒感染的技术和设备数量正在迅速增加。这促使许多研究人员研究此类技术实施过程中涉及的可接受性和伦理问题。
本研究旨在确定新冠病毒接触者追踪技术的可接受性以及使用过程中的伦理问题。
采用基于问卷调查的横断面研究。目标人群为约旦成年人（>18岁）。该调查面向约旦2000名普通公众的便利样本进行发放。
结果发现，接受使用新冠病毒接触者追踪技术的人数占71.6%。然而，正在使用该技术的人数比例为37.8%。许多参与者主要关注的伦理问题是数据的隐私性、自愿性和有益性。只有收入和居住地区是追踪技术可接受性和使用情况的预测因素（p≤0.01）。
大多数约旦人接受实施用于新冠病毒感染的接触者追踪技术。在实施此类技术的伦理问题中，包括隐私、有益性和自愿性。
本研究结果将有助于改善关于出于健康目的使用接触者追踪技术的可接受性方面的科学状况。此外，目前的研究结果提供了约旦人群中关于新冠病毒接触者追踪技术接受度预测因素及伦理问题的证据。
