Public opinion of the Irish "COVID Tracker" digital contact tracing App: A national survey.

Objective: This study aims to gather public opinion on the Irish "COVID Tracker" digital contact tracing (DCT) App, with particular focus on App usage, usability, usefulness, technological issues encountered, and potential changes to the App.

Methods: A 35-item online questionnaire was deployed for 10 days in October 2020, 3 months after the launch of the Irish DCT App.

Results: A total of 2889 completed responses were recorded, with 2553 (88%) respondents currently using the App.

Digital Contact Tracing Apps for COVID-19: Development of a Citizen-Centered Evaluation Framework.

Background: The silent transmission of COVID-19 has led to an exponential growth of fatal infections. With over 4 million deaths worldwide, the need to control and stem transmission has never been more critical. New COVID-19 vaccines offer hope.

Best Practice Guidance for Digital Contact Tracing Apps: A Cross-disciplinary Review of the Literature.

Background: Digital contact tracing apps have the potential to augment contact tracing systems and disrupt COVID-19 transmission by rapidly identifying secondary cases prior to the onset of infectiousness and linking them into a system of quarantine, testing, and health care worker case management. The international experience of digital contact tracing apps during the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates how challenging their design and deployment are.

Objective: This study aims to derive and summarize best practice guidance for the design of the ideal digital contact tracing app.

Sentiment analysis of user feedback on the HSE's Covid-19 contact tracing app.

Background: Digital Contact Tracing is seen as a key tool in reducing the propagation of Covid-19. But it requires high uptake and continued participation across the population to be effective. To achieve sufficient uptake/participation, health authorities should address, and thus be aware of, user concerns.

A national survey of attitudes to COVID-19 digital contact tracing in the Republic of Ireland.

Background: Contact tracing remains a critical part of controlling COVID-19 spread. Many countries have developed novel software applications (Apps) in an effort to augment traditional contact tracing methods.

Aim: Conduct a national survey of the Irish population to examine barriers and levers to the use of a contact tracing App.

Patients' lay expertise in chronic self-care: a case study in type 1 diabetes.

Background: The impact of chronic diseases in our society is growing. The idea of self-care generates understandable enthusiasm and is seen as a natural answer. It is important to develop an understanding of self-care practices that goes beyond a clinical understanding of the disease and that acknowledges everyday practicalities, and the perspective of the patient.