Linares Alexandra R, Bramstedt Katrina A, Chilukuri Mohan M, Doraiswamy P Murali
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, USA.
Department of Medicine, Bond University Medical Program, Queensland, Australia.
Digit Med. 2022 May 12. doi: 10.4103/digm.digm_28_21.
To characterize the global physician community's opinions on the use of digital tools for COVID-19 public health surveillance and self-surveillance.
Cross-sectional, random, stratified survey done on Sermo, a physician networking platform, between September 9 and 15, 2020. We aimed to sample 1000 physicians divided among the USA, EU, and rest of the world. The survey questioned physicians on the risk-benefit ratio of digital tools, as well as matters of data privacy and trust.
Descriptive statistics examined physicians' characteristics and opinions by age group, gender, frontline status, and geographic region. ANOVA, t-test, and Chi-square tests with P < 0.05 were viewed as qualitatively different. As this was an exploratory study, we did not adjust for small cell sizes or multiplicity. We used JMP Pro 15 (SAS), as well as Protobi.
The survey was completed by 1004 physicians with a mean (standard deviation) age of 49.14 (12) years. Enthusiasm was highest for self-monitoring smartwatches (66%) and contact tracing apps (66%) and slightly lower (48-56%) for other tools. Trust was highest for health providers (68%) and lowest for technology companies (30%). Most respondents (69.8%) felt that loosening privacy standards to fight the pandemic would lead to misuse of privacy in the future.
The survey provides foundational insights into how physicians think of surveillance.
描述全球医生群体对于使用数字工具进行新冠疫情公共卫生监测和自我监测的看法。
于2020年9月9日至15日在医生社交平台Sermo上进行了横断面随机分层调查。我们的目标是抽取1000名医生作为样本，他们分布在美国、欧盟和世界其他地区。该调查询问了医生关于数字工具的风险效益比以及数据隐私和信任问题。
描述性统计按年龄组、性别、一线工作状态和地理区域对医生的特征和看法进行了分析。方差分析、t检验和P<0.05的卡方检验被视为存在质的差异。由于这是一项探索性研究，我们未对小样本量或多重性进行调整。我们使用了JMP Pro 15（SAS）以及Protobi。
1004名医生完成了调查，他们的平均（标准差）年龄为49.14（12）岁。对自我监测智能手表（66%）和接触者追踪应用程序（66%）的热情最高，对其他工具的热情略低（48%-56%）。对医疗服务提供者的信任度最高（68%），对科技公司的信任度最低（30%）。大多数受访者（69.8%）认为，为抗击疫情而放宽隐私标准会导致未来隐私被滥用。
该调查为医生如何看待监测提供了基础性见解。
