TY - JOUR
T1 - The Use of a Health Compliance Monitoring System During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Indonesia
T2 - Evaluation Study
AU - Aisyah, Dewi Nur
AU - Manikam, Logan
AU - Kiasatina, Thifal
AU - Naman, Maryan
AU - Adisasmito, Wiku
AU - Kozlakidis, Zisis
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Dewi Nur Aisyah, Logan Manikam, Thifal Kiasatina, Maryan Naman, Wiku Adisasmito, Zisis Kozlakidis.
PY - 2022/11
Y1 - 2022/11
N2 - Background: COVID-19 cases are soaring in Asia. Indonesia, Southeast Asia’s most populous country, is now ranked second in the number of cases and deaths in Asia, after India. The compliance toward mask wearing, social distancing, and hand washing needs to be monitored to assess public behavioral changes that can reduce transmission. Objective: This study aimed to evaluate this compliance in Indonesia between October 2020 and May 2021 and demonstrate the use of the Bersatu Lawan COVID-19 (BLC) mobile app in monitoring this compliance. Methods: Data were collected in real time by the BLC app from reports submitted by personnel of military services, police officers, and behavioral change ambassadors. Subsequently, the data were analyzed automatically by the system managed by the Indonesia National Task Force for the Acceleration of COVID-19 Mitigation. Results: Between October 1, 2020, and May 2, 2021, the BLC app generated more than 165 million reports, with 469 million people monitored and 124,315,568 locations under observation in 514 districts/cities in 34 provinces in Indonesia. This paper grouped them into 4 colored zones, based on the degree of compliance, and analyzed variations among regions and locations. Conclusions: Compliance rates vary among the 34 provinces and among the districts and cities of those provinces. However, compliance to mask wearing seems slightly higher than social distancing. This finding suggests that policy makers need to promote higher compliance in other measures, including social distancing and hand washing, whose efficacies have been proven to break the chain of transmission when combined with masks wearing.
AB - Background: COVID-19 cases are soaring in Asia. Indonesia, Southeast Asia’s most populous country, is now ranked second in the number of cases and deaths in Asia, after India. The compliance toward mask wearing, social distancing, and hand washing needs to be monitored to assess public behavioral changes that can reduce transmission. Objective: This study aimed to evaluate this compliance in Indonesia between October 2020 and May 2021 and demonstrate the use of the Bersatu Lawan COVID-19 (BLC) mobile app in monitoring this compliance. Methods: Data were collected in real time by the BLC app from reports submitted by personnel of military services, police officers, and behavioral change ambassadors. Subsequently, the data were analyzed automatically by the system managed by the Indonesia National Task Force for the Acceleration of COVID-19 Mitigation. Results: Between October 1, 2020, and May 2, 2021, the BLC app generated more than 165 million reports, with 469 million people monitored and 124,315,568 locations under observation in 514 districts/cities in 34 provinces in Indonesia. This paper grouped them into 4 colored zones, based on the degree of compliance, and analyzed variations among regions and locations. Conclusions: Compliance rates vary among the 34 provinces and among the districts and cities of those provinces. However, compliance to mask wearing seems slightly higher than social distancing. This finding suggests that policy makers need to promote higher compliance in other measures, including social distancing and hand washing, whose efficacies have been proven to break the chain of transmission when combined with masks wearing.
KW - app
KW - Asia
KW - behavioral change
KW - COVID-19, public health informatics
KW - digital health
KW - health compliance
KW - mask
KW - mobile app
KW - monitoring
KW - policy
KW - public health policy
KW - social distance
KW - transmission
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U2 - 10.2196/40089
DO - 10.2196/40089
M3 - Article
C2 - 36219836
AN - SCOPUS:85142918508
SN - 2369-2960
VL - 8
JO - JMIR Public Health and Surveillance
JF - JMIR Public Health and Surveillance
IS - 11
M1 - e40089
ER -