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Table 5 Contact activities with a negative test result, by group

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

 

Whole sample

N

Pos Group

%

Neg Group

%

Not offered

%

aChi2

p

Contact activities

 Higher contact activity

88

26%

10

19%

78

29%

na

na

2.68

.102

 Lower contact activity

139

41%

8

15%

131

49%

na

na

21.89

< .001

 No non-essential activity

111

33%

30

56%

81

31%

na

na

12.35

< .001

Contacts

Testing groups combined

         

 Much more

7

3%

0

0%

7

4%

na

na

na

na

 Slightly more

15

7%

1

4%

14

7%

na

na

1.18

.278

 About the same

63

30%

6

24%

57

30%

na

na

3.06

.080

 Slightly less

20

9%

1

4%

19

10%

na

na

2.19

.142

 Much less

108

51%

17

68%

91

48%

na

na

0.16

.686

  1. a Note. All pairwise chi square tests were also nonsignificant
  2. Item: Contact activities: “On the days that you had a negative test result, did you do any of the following ..”
  3. Item: Contacts: “Thinking about the days you had a negative 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?”