Self-Isolation and Self-Quarantine Home Assessment Checklist for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
To aid case investigators and contact tracers in assessing ability to safely isolate or quarantine at home, and the need for additional social support.
CS317305 05/29/2020
As a case investigator or contact tracer, part of your role is to determine how much social support an individual needs to be able to successfully and safely self-isolate or self-quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic. Social support services must be an integral component of your jurisdiction’s case investigation and contact tracing activities. In developing jurisdictional case investigation and contact tracing protocols, your program should:
• Define its social support services package and eligibility criteria
• Ensure that the program has the resources to provide culturally and linguistically appropriate services and information to patients and close contacts. While many patients and close contacts will be able to self-isolate and self-quarantine at home with little to no outside support, some individuals may require substantially more social support to safely self-isolate or self-quarantine. For some of the most vulnerable populations in the United States, self-isolation or self-quarantine could present a hardship. Their adherence to isolation and quarantine instructions will greatly depend on their safety, comfort, and health during this period.
• Some individuals may need additional wrap-around services, such as food and pharmacy delivery, laundry services, and garbage removal.
• Those whose employment will be affected by their need to self-isolate or self-quarantine could have financial issues to deal with.
• There may be additional social support that persons with disabilities need to successfully self-isolate or self-quarantine.
Individuals who do not have their needs met may struggle to self-isolate or self-quarantine and therefore become a risk for further spread of COVID-19. Providing social support should be a priority for your health department’s case investigation and contact tracing plans.
You can adapt the following checklist to help assess each patient’s and contact’s ability to safely self-isolate or self-quarantine and determine what support services they need to do so.
For any statement on the checklist where your answer is “no” or “unsure,” you should refer to local protocols to determine whether resources are available to provide that support service.
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