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Table 4 Contact activities when self-isolating, by group

From: Engagement with daily testing instead of self-isolating in contacts of confirmed cases of SARS-CoV-2

 

Whole sample

N

Pos Test

%

Neg Test

%

Not offered

%

aChi2

p

Contact activities

 Higher contact activity

49

10%

6

11%

28

11%

15

7%

1.66

.436

 Lower contact activity

53

10%

5

9%

30

11%

18

9%

0.87

.648

 No non-essential activity

429

81%

43

80%

216

82%

170

83%

0.36

.835

Contacts

Testing groups combined

         

 Much more

1

1%

0

0%

1

1%

na

na

na

na

 Slightly more

2

2%

0

0%

2

2%

na

na

na

na

 About the same

23

18%

4

13%

19

20%

na

na

0.00

.951

 Slightly less

5

4%

1

3%

4

4%

na

na

0.01

.909

 Much less

94

75%

25

83%

69

73%

na

na

8.86

.003

  1. a Note. All pairwise chi square tests were also nonsignificant
  2. Item: Contact activities: “On the days that you were trying to self-isolate, did you do any of the following..”
  3. Item: Contacts: “Thinking about the days you did not take a test or had a positive/inconclusive test result, did you have more or less close contact with people you do not live with (indoors and for more than 15 min) than you had before you were contacted by NHS Test and Trace?”