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. 2023 Oct 13;45:e2023091. doi: 10.4178/epih.e2023091

Table 2.

Questionnaire completion and biological sample collection among 1,462 households participating in the CHILD COVID-19 Add-On Study (n=5,378 children and adults)

Questionnaires Baseline
Follow-up 1
Follow-up 2
Follow-up 3
Collection period Jan-Jun, 2021 Aug-Sep, 2021 Oct-Dec, 2021 Jan-Mar, 2022
Completion rate by participant type
 Child self-report 1,643/2,064 (79.6) 987/2,064 (47.8) 880/2,064 (42.6) 794/2,064 (38.5)
 Parent on behalf of child 2,336/2,766 (84.4) 1,527/2,766 (55.2) 1,275/2,766 (46.1) 1,202/2,766 (43.5)
 Adult self-report 2,308/2,576 (89.6) 1,563/2,576 (60.7) 1,370/2,576 (53.2) 1,252/2,576 (48.6)
Overall completion rate 6,287/7,406 (84.9) 4,077/7,406 (55.0) 3,525/7,406 (47.6) 3,248/7,406 (43.9)
Biological samples Phase A (n=5,326)
Phase B (n=3,219)1
Collection period Mar-Sep, 2021 Oct-Dec, 2021
Sample type Stool Blood Stool Blood
 Children 1,445/2,738 (52.8) 1,462/2,738 (53.4) 823/1,648 (49.9) 847/1,648 (51.4)
 Adults 1,506/2,588 (58.2) 1,567/2,588 (60.5) 969/1,571 (61.7) 1,022/1,571 (65.0)
Total 2,951/5,326 (55.4) 3,029/5,326 (56.9) 1,792/3,219 (55.6) 1,869/3,219 (58.1)

Values are presented as number/Number (%).

CHILD, Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development; COVID-19, coronavirus disease 2019.

1

Households who returned biological samples in phase A were invited to participate in phase B.