Implementation of a Nationwide Knowledge-Based COVID-19 Contact Tracing Training Program, 2020
In the United States, the public health response to control COVID-19 required rapid expansion of the contact tracing workforce from approximately 2200 personnel prepandemic to more than 100 000 during the pandemic. We describe the development and implementation of a free nationwide training course for COVID-19 contact tracers that launched April 28, 2020, and summarize participant characteristics and evaluation findings through December 31, 2020. Uptake of the online asynchronous training was substantial: 90 643 registrants completed the course during the first 8 months. In an analysis of a subset of course participants (n = 13 697), 7724 (56.4%) reported having no prepandemic public health experience and 7178 (52.4%) reported currently serving as case investigators, contact tracers, or both. Most participants who completed a course evaluation reported satisfaction with course utility (94.8%; 59 497 of 62 753) and improved understanding of contact tracing practice (93.0%; 66 107 of 71 048). These findings suggest that the course successfully reached the intended audience of new public health practitioners. Lessons learned from this implementation indicate that an introductory course level is appropriate for a national knowledge-based training that aims to complement jurisdiction-specific training. In addition, offering a range of implementation options can promote course uptake among public health agency staff. This course supported the emerging needs of the public health practice community by training a workforce to fill an important gap during the COVID-19 pandemic and could serve as a feasible model for enhancing workforce knowledge for future and ongoing public health threats.
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2022 |
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2022 |
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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:137 |
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Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974) - 137(2022), 2_suppl vom: 02. Nov., Seite 11S-17S |
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Englisch |
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| Beteiligte Personen: |
Ruebush, Elizabeth [VerfasserIn] |
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COVID-19 |
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Date Completed 22.11.2022 Date Revised 11.02.2023 published: Print-Electronic Citation Status MEDLINE |
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10.1177/00333549221101327 |
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