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ArticleBMJ open2026

Effect of local versus global risk and normative information on voluntary quarantine adoption: protocol for a 2×2 randomised controlled trial leveraging app-based epigames across diverse congregate settings (The Epi-Q Study).

Estelle McCool, Winnie W Mkandawire, Salihu S Musa, Shi Chen, Laura Moley, Gwen Robbins Schug, Nick Bowman, Sarah A Nowak, John M Drake, John Drury and 7 more

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Article in BMJ open, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

17 authors.

Estelle McCoolPandemic Sciences Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0005-4579-6078
Winnie W MkandawireDepartment of Genomics and Computational Biology, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.
Salihu S MusaDepartment of Genomics and Computational Biology, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.
Shi ChenSchool of Data Science, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.
Laura MoleyDepartment of Geography and Geospatial Sciences, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA.
Gwen Robbins SchugDepartment of Biology, University of North Carolina Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA.
Nick BowmanNewhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, USA.
Sarah A NowakLarner College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5965-9035
John M DrakePandemic Sciences Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
John DrurySchool of Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7748-5128
Adam FowlerPandemic Sciences Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Melinda C MillsNuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Christophe FraserPandemic Sciences Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Luca FerrettiPandemic Sciences Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Ben SwallowSchool of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK.
Jasmina Panovska GriffithsPandemic Sciences Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Andrés ColubriDepartment of Genomics and Computational Biology, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA andres.colubri@umassmed.edu.

Funding

Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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EpidemicsINFECTIOUS DISEASESMobile ApplicationsResearch DesignSocial Interaction

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PMID42849959
PMCPMC13656103

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