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. 2021 Mar 26;8(7):ofab149. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofab149

Table 2.

Serology Test Result According to Adherence to Measures Aimed at Decreasing Transmission, Contacts With Other People, and Living Conditions, Stratified by Type of Participant (Unadjusted Results)

Household Members (n = 302) Close Contacts Outside the Household (n = 69)
No. (%) Seropositive Unadjusted OR [95% CI] P Value No. (%) Seropositive Unadjusted OR [95% CI] P Value
Respect of measures and contacts with other people
Respect of simple hygiene rules (washing hands regularly, sneezing into the elbow, etc.) .123 .272
 Yes 114/215 (53.0) Reference 8/56 (14.3) Reference
 Rather yes 40/74 (54.1) 1.46 [0.97–2.20] 4/13 (30.8) 2.22 [0.54–9.21]
 Rather no or no 4/9 (44.4) 2.08 [0.63–6.87] No participant ··
Respect of social distancing rules (physical distancing, avoid shaking hands or kissing, etc.) .868 .114
 Yes 87/157 (55.4) Reference 7/53 (13.2) Reference
 Rather yes 56/105 (53.3) 0.99 [0.64–1.52] 5/15 (33.3) 2.94 [0.77–11.23]
 Rather no or no 15/36 (41.7) 0.77 [0.42–1.43] 0/1 (0.0) ··
Wearing a mask in public .657 .093
 No 79/163 (48.5) Reference 5/38 (13.2) Reference
 Yes, sometimes 54/98 (55.1) 1.15 [0.75–1.74] 2/17 (11.8) 1.06 [0.21–5.35]
Yes, always 27/40 (67.5) 1.31 [0.70–2.45] 5/13 (38.5) 4.36 [1.06–17.83]
Weekly No. of people who met outside home during the semiconfinement .009 .761
 0 65/100 (65.0) Reference 2/17 (11.8) Reference
 1–5 73/140 (52.1) 0.87 [0.53–1.43] 6/34 (17.7) 1.26 [0.25–6.35]
 >5 21/61 (34.4) 0.42 [0.22–0.78] 4/17 (23.5) 1.86 [0.32–10.75]
Close contact with people outside the home having symptoms suggestive of COVID-19, No. of people .456 .099
 0 127/233 (54.5) Reference 2/14 (14.3) Reference
 1 17/34 (50.0) 1.48 [0.80–2.75] 5/42 (11.9) 0.88 [0.15–5.01]
 ≥2 16/35 (45.7) 1.11 [0.63–1.96] 5/12 (41.7) 4.36 [0.68–27.99]
Living conditions and household characteristicsa
Housing typeb .946
 Individual house 83/158 (52.5) Reference
 Apartment, studio, or other 77/144 (53.5) 0.98 [0.54–1.79]
No. of people in the householdb .046
 2 39/59 (66.1) Reference
 3 31/51 (60.8) 0.82 [0.35–1.93]
 4 44/74 (59.5) 0.78 [0.34–1.77]
 5 33/68 (48.5) 0.43 [0.17–1.06]
 ≥6 13/50 (26.0) 0.19 [0.06–0.62]
No. of habitable rooms (besides kitchen) in the dwellingc .441
 ≤3 35/54 (64.8) Reference
 4–6 96/183 (52.5) 0.67 [0.32–1.40]
 ≥7 29/65 (44.6) 0.55 [0.21–1.47]

All participants, including children and teens. Calculation of odds ratio and P value: correlation between close contacts of the same index case taken into account using GEE (exchangeable correlation structure, logit link function).

Abbreviations: COVID-19, coronavirus disease 2019; GEE, generalized estimating equation; OR, odds ratio.

aNot relevant for close contacts outside the household.

bAnswer of the index case taken for all household members.

cAnswer of the index case taken for all household members, except 2 households where information from the index case was missing (mean of answers reported by other household members taken instead).