The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children - A resource for COVID-19 research: Home-based antibody testing results, October 2020.

ALSPAC COVID-19 Children of the 90s antibody testing birth cohort study coronavirus online questionnaire

Journal

Wellcome open research
ISSN: 2398-502X
Titre abrégé: Wellcome Open Res
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101696457

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
2021
Historique:
accepted: 12 02 2021
entrez: 8 10 2021
pubmed: 9 10 2021
medline: 9 10 2021
Statut: epublish

Résumé

The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) is a prospective population-based cohort study which recruited pregnant women in 1990-1992 and has followed these women, their partners (Generation 0; G0) and offspring (Generation 1; G1) ever since. The study reacted rapidly to the COVID-19 pandemic, deploying online questionnaires in March and May 2020. Home-based antibody tests and a further questionnaire were sent to 5220 participants during a two-week period of October 2020. 4.2% (n=201) of participants reported a positive antibody test (3.2% G0s [n=81]; 5.6% G1s [n=120]). 43 reported an invalid test, 7 did not complete and 3 did not report their result. Participants uploaded a photo of their test to enable validation: all positive tests, those where the participant could not interpret the result and a 5% random sample were manually checked against photos. We report 92% agreement (kappa=0.853). Positive tests were compared to additional COVID-19 status information: 58 (1.2%) participants reported a previous positive test, 73 (1.5%) reported that COVID-19 was suspected by a doctor, but not tested and 980 (20.4%) believed they had COVID-19 due to their own suspicions.  Of those reporting a positive result on our antibody test, 55 reported that they did not think they had had COVID-19. Results from antibody testing and questionnaire data will be complemented by health record linkage and results of other biological testing- uniting Pillar testing data with home testing and self-report. Data have been released as an update to the original datasets released in July 2020. It comprises: 1) a standard dataset containing

Identifiants

pubmed: 34622014
doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16616.1
pmc: PMC8453314
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

34

Informations de copyright

Copyright: © 2021 Northstone K et al.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

No competing interests were disclosed.

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Auteurs

Kate Northstone (K)

ALSPAC, Department of population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, Unviersity of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 2BN, UK.

Daniel Smith (D)

ALSPAC, Department of population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, Unviersity of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 2BN, UK.
MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, Department of Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 2BN, UK.

Claire Bowring (C)

ALSPAC, Department of population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, Unviersity of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 2BN, UK.

Amanda Hill (A)

ALSPAC, Department of population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, Unviersity of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 2BN, UK.

Richard Hobbs (R)

ALSPAC, Department of population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, Unviersity of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 2BN, UK.

Nicholas Wells (N)

ALSPAC, Department of population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, Unviersity of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 2BN, UK.

Nicholas J Timpson (NJ)

ALSPAC, Department of population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, Unviersity of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 2BN, UK.
MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, Department of Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 2BN, UK.

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