Quantifying Contact Patterns: Development and Characteristics of the British Columbia COVID-19 Population Mixing Patterns Survey
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SciScore for 10.1101/2021.08.10.21261872: (What is this?)
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Table 1: Rigor
Ethics Consent: Ethics: Informed consent was sought on the survey start page.
IRB: The study was reviewed and approved by the University of British Columbia Behavioral Research Ethics Board (No: H20-01785).Sex as a biological variable not detected. Randomization Participant and public involvement: The initial version of the BC-Mix survey was first piloted with a randomly selected sample of the BC population and feedback received was incorporated in the final version before the official launch. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Table 2: Resources
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources Participant recruitment: To capture participants from a broad demographic range, the survey invitation … SciScore for 10.1101/2021.08.10.21261872: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Ethics Consent: Ethics: Informed consent was sought on the survey start page.
IRB: The study was reviewed and approved by the University of British Columbia Behavioral Research Ethics Board (No: H20-01785).Sex as a biological variable not detected. Randomization Participant and public involvement: The initial version of the BC-Mix survey was first piloted with a randomly selected sample of the BC population and feedback received was incorporated in the final version before the official launch. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Table 2: Resources
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources Participant recruitment: To capture participants from a broad demographic range, the survey invitation and survey are disseminated through Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp, Twitter, and Google search engine results pages. Googlesuggested: (Google, RRID:SCR_017097)Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:Another limitation to mention is the large number of recruits that were ineligible and the attrition between successive rounds of survey. This could be related to survey fatigue, or the time required to complete the survey. Our survey has several strengths. Web-based surveys like the BC-Mix provide timely information for pandemic response (45). Also, during an infectious disease pandemic, web-based surveys offer a more convenient approach to data collection compared to in-person or other modes of data collection. We also found paid advertisements to be more cost effective compared to the cost of panel data from survey companies (36). An additional strength of our study is its large sample size. Our total recruited sample of over 61,000 participants compares to the 1,356 participants in the U.K CoMix study (12), the 9,743 participants in the BICS study (17) study, 1,542 participants in the Belgian CoMix study (7) and the 7,290 participants in the POLYMOD study (14). In addition, because we opted to achieve representativeness post-data collection (at the analysis stage), we were able to consider many important variables besides age and sex in our weighting strategy. It would have been logistically challenging to consider all these variables had we used quota-sampling given that many market research company panels were limited in terms recruitment by age, sex, and geography. Using many auxiliary variables in our weighting strategy increased the representativeness of the BC popul...
Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
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