Public Health Investigation regarding (MERS)

As an epidemiologist investigating a Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) outbreak, you have been tasked with developing a ten item questionnaire to investigate the situation. You will also write a brief report that explains the questionnaire.

Your report should address the following:

· An explanation of your questionnaire

· Why you selected the questions you used on your questionnaire – in other words, why the questions are important to your investigation, and what information you hope to uncover

· The target audience of the questionnaire (i.e., the respondents), and why you chose them

· The location of the target audience

· How you will distribute the questionnaire.

Be sure to include general and specific information you would need to know from those you are interviewing.

Your questionnaire and paper should meet the following structural requirements:

· The questionnaire should consist ten questions.

· The paper should be at least two pages in length, not including the cover sheet, reference page, and questionnaire pages.

· Formatted according to APA writing standards.

· Provide support for your statements with in-text citations from a minimum of six scholarly articles. Two of these sources may be from the class readings, textbook, or lectures, but two must be external. The Saudi Digital Library is a good place to find these references.

You can use the following resources:

References

Alraddadi, B., Bawareth, N., Omar, H., Alsalmi, H., Alshukairi, A., Qushmaq, I., … Khalid, I. (2016). Patient Characteristics Infected with Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Infection in A Tertiary Hospital. Annals of Thoracic Medicine, 11(2), 128–131. http://doi.org/10.4103/1817-1737.180027

Assiri A et al. Hospital outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus. New England Journal of Medicine – 19 June 2013.

Banerjee, A., Rawat, R., & Subudhi, S. (2015). Outbreak Control Policies for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS): The Present and the Future. Journal of Tropical Diseases & Public Health, 2015.

Chen,X., Chughtai, A., Dyda, A., & MacIntyre, C. (2017). Comparative epidemiology of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in Saudi Arabia and South Korea. Emerg Microbes Infect, 6, (6),40.

de Groot, R. J., Baker, S. C., Baric, R. S., Brown, C. S., Drosten, C., Enjuanes, L., … & Perlman, S. (2013). Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV): announcement of the Coronavirus Study Group. Journal of virology, 87(14), 7790-7792.

Edelstein, M., & Heymann, D.L. (2015). What needs to be done to control the spread of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus?. Future Virology, 10(5), 497-505.

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Madani, T. A., Althaqafi, A. O., & Alraddadi, B. M. (2014). Infection prevention and control guidelines for patients with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection. Saudi Med J, 35(8), 897-913.

Majumder, M. S., Rivers, C., Lofgren, E., & Fisman, D. (2014). Estimation of MERS-coronavirus reproductive number and case fatality rate for the spring 2014 Saudi Arabia outbreak: insights from publicly available data. PLoS Currents, 6. DOI: 10.1371/currents.outbreaks.98d2f8f3382d84f390736cd5f5fe133c

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