Topic 1 In a study to determine contact pattern in Thailand

[Saranath]

In a study to determine contact pattern in Thailand, people encouraged to use a contract tracing application over 3-month period. The researcher found that young adults had the most active contact pattern than other age groups. Please help identify confounders for this association. Please provide one confounder for each student, and please try not to duplicate with your friend previous answer.

 

[tullaya.sita]

I think one of the confounders in the association between age and the use of contact tracing application is IT proficiency. Young people were born in the digital era. They are familiar with the smartphone. The use of applications does not bother them. In comparison, a lot of elderly feel difficult to use the mobile application.
Also, IT proficiency has a causal relationship with the use of contact tracing applications. Furthermore, IT proficiency is not in between the age and the use of contact tracing application.

[Ameen]

I would like to raise “Being in higher education” as a confounder for this study. The young adult can be the group of people age 18-25 years old which mostly being in education ranging from advanced vocational education to undergraduate, postgraduate, and non-formal education and apprenticeships. This could be a criterion for confounder as “association”. While being in education requires them to have some certain frequent pattern of social contact or meeting between themself and group of people mostly with a classmate, institution staff, friends, colleague, and of using services. The contact and meeting mostly take place in public places like school, public transport, restaurant, class, shops. The places require them to use the contact tracing application. Moreover, being in education can lead to having collective and imitation behaviour. When one uses the app. the other will uses the app too. They ended up being recorded of their contact patterns. This could be “risk factors”. And being in education is not a by-product of being in any certain age group as not a derivative of growing into this group of age.

[w.thanachol]

A confounder could be having a smartphone and access to the internet. Since Elderly or children might not have smartphones and less access to the internet, they tend to report contact pattern less than the younger adult population.

[Chalermphon]

I Think, A confounder is the impact of technology on social change. Advances in information technology is significant to social change such as Internet. Internet is important in every organize, age group, marketing, and society. The contact in young adults had the most active contact pattern because young adults is the group to used internet more than other groups such as the group of education, social network, Trading.

[Saranath]

Great! So far, we have IT proficiency, having smart phone, internet access,education. Looking for more suggested confounding variables from others.

[Pacharapol Withayasakpunt]

Another confounder is health awareness and ability and wants to manage their own health; that is, desire.

I think it couples with IT iteracy and health iteracy to do the job.

[imktd8]

For the other confounders in my sight is the technology capability, there is a gap between people in vary age group. They have difference experience in technology usage. In the young adults, it is more easier to use, understand, accept ease of user and usefulness of the technology than the other age groups, but this issue can be solved by giving the training or knowledge to them.

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