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    Review of '<b>The effectiveness of COVID-19 surveillance applications in Uganda: </b> : <b>assessment of a medical rapid response system</b>'

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    The effectiveness of COVID-19 surveillance applications in Uganda: : assessment of a medical rapid response system

    Nandu Goswami, Robert Stalone Buwule, Mary Acanit … (2024)
    Different Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) health-based innovations such as cloud computing, web and mobile surveillance applications were used by proactive governments to fight COVID-19. Contact tracing mobile applications were used by more than 100 countries. However, the extent to which these surveillance applications have been used to track Covid-19 in Uganda is not clear. This study aimed to establish the use of COVID-19 surveillance applications in Uganda. This was a purely qualitative study. Health practitioners managing these surveillance applications were interviewed from Kampala City, Mukono and Wakiso districts of Uganda. The assessment of the COVID-19 surveillance applications underscores the relevance of health-based ICTS. The surveillance applications provided accurate, authoritative and timely data. However, there were false alerts as result of inaccurate data supplied by the applications. The study recommends increased facilitation of the surveillance officers, continuous training of surveillance teams and integration of the applications for the management of other non-communicable diseases.
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      DOI:: 10.14293/S2199-1006.1.SOR-COMPSCI.ANLXIL.v1.RSAHZG
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      ScienceOpen disciplines: Communication networks,Social & Behavioral Sciences,Health & Social care,Human-computer-interaction,Communication & Media studies
      Keywords: health based ICTs,Surveillance applications,COVID-19,Uganda

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      This is a very interesting study; I commend the team for the work done. However, I have issues with the methodology applied in this study.

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      Title

      The effectiveness of COVID-19 surveillance applications in Uganda: assessment of a medical rapid response system. When a reader looks at the title, they can not think at any one point that it is a qualitative study. The title does not resonate with the research design. Please think about editing the title to bring out the true picture presented in the paper.

      Study Objective

      The objectives of the study seem more of quantitative or mixed-methods than purely qualitative, please edit them to resonate with the study findings. A case in point to “assess the efficacy of the COVID-19 surveillance applications in the community” the findings presented were more on people’s experiences in using COVID-19 surveillance applications than assessing their efficacy. Please look into Objectives 2, 3, and 4.

      Aim

      The study aimed to “establish the level of application and effectiveness of the COVID-19 surveillance applications in community health during the COVID-19 pandemic in Uganda to understand how the applications supported the rapid response medical system of MoH”. This aim has not been addressed with the findings presented in this paper”. What I am seeing is more of exploring people’s lived experiences in the application and utilization of the COVID-19 surveillance applications.

      Methodology

      Please note in the Methods section, the presentation of the sampling technique appears in two areas, please put them together.

      In the methods section, you indicated that you used closed-ended questions. You could not have used closed-ended questions in a qualitative study.

      The data analysis is not well explained, remember codes are generated before the themes, which is not the case in your write-up.

      About the ethical concerns, please indicate the reference number assigned by the REC and UNCST.

      In a nutshell, please make the aim, title and study objectives to rhyme with the methodology of the study.

       

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      Dear Dr. Sarah Nakaziba 

       

      We are very grateful for your observations and comments regariding our paper. We are going to certainly consider them as we improve the paper.

      2024-04-22 10:52 UTC
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      Reviewed by Sarah Nakaziba Reviewed by Olivia Nina Rugambwa