Fig 1.
CONTACT digital wearables, reprinted from Thompson, C.A., Daffu-O’Reilly, A., Willis, T. et al. ‘Smart’ BLE wearables for digital contact tracing in care homes during the COVID-19 pandemic—a process evaluation of the CONTACT feasibility study.
Implement Sci Commun 4, 155 (2023), under a CC BY license, with permission from Springer Nature, original copyright 2023.
Table 1.
The four care homes as context.
Table 2.
Home community roles.
Fig 2.
System architecture needed to generate contact based social network data, reprinted from Kishwer Abdul Khaliq, Catherine Noakes, Andrew H. Kemp, Carl Thompson & the CONTACT trial team (2023) evaluating the performance of wearable devices for contact tracing in care home environments, journal of occupational and environmental hygiene, 20:10, 468–479, under a CC BY license, with permission from Taylor Francis, original copyright 2023.
Table 3.
SNA metrics and potential contribution to quality improvement in care homes.
Fig 3.
Interaction time (duration) by home and homegroup.
Fig 4.
Heat map of interaction frequency.
(legend: 4 = res-res; 5 = res-staff; 6 = staff-staff).
Fig 5.
Interactions over time by relationship.
Fig 6.
Identifying the most (and least) connected community members using number and strength of interactions.
Fig 7.
Frequency of interactions by home locations in Brownhall.
Table 4.
Strength of interactions and duration by home.
Table 5.
Mean connections and strength adjusted connections by care home and role.
Fig 8.
Larger homes don’t always mean more subcommunities (node size indicates degree centrality [bigger = more] and edge width the frequency of interactions [edge weight; thicker = stronger]).
Table 6.
Interactions of >2minutes by roles.
Table 7.
Unique interactions and all interactions by home and role.