Designing and Validating a Survey for National-Level Data During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Sri Lanka: Cross-Sectional Mobile Phone Surveys
The surveys revealed that, overall, the adult Sri Lankan population adhered to COVID-19 mitigation strategies. These findings underscore the use of mobile phone surveys in swiftly and easily providing essential data to inform a country's response during the COVID-19 pandemic, obviating the need for face-to-face data collection.
Authors
- Stacy L. Davlin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1025-8270)
- Champika Wickramasinghe (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7949-6077)
- Veronica Lea (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3683-1485)
- Dhanushka Abeygunathilaka (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7367-4079)
- Rachael Phadnis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0150-7749)
- Casey Siesel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3104-5685)
- Juliette Lee (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-4088-9607)
- Udara Perera
Institutions
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US)
- Atlanta Research and Education Foundation (US)
- Ministry of Health, Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine (LK)
Publication Details
- Journal
- JMIR Formative Research
- Published
- 2024-09-06
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.2196/49708
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.79