What influences whether parents recognise COVID-19 symptoms, request a test and self-isolate: A qualitative study

Lisa Woodland; Fiona Mowbray; Louise E. Smith; Rebecca K. Webster; Richard Amlôt; G James Rubin

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0263537

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What influences whether parents recognise COVID-19 symptoms, request a test and self-isolate: A qualitative study

Lisa Woodland ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: lisa.woodland@kcl.ac.uk

Affiliations Department of Psychological Medicine, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom, NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Emergency Preparedness and Response, London, United Kingdom

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2440-3210

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Fiona Mowbray,

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Psychological Medicine, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom, NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Emergency Preparedness and Response, London, United Kingdom
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Louise E. Smith,

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Psychological Medicine, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom, NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Emergency Preparedness and Response, London, United Kingdom

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1277-2564

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Rebecca K. Webster,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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Richard Amlôt,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Emergency Preparedness and Response, London, United Kingdom, Behavioural Science and Insights Unit, UK Health Security Agency, Salisbury, United Kingdom
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G James Rubin

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Psychological Medicine, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom, NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Emergency Preparedness and Response, London, United Kingdom
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What influences whether parents recognise COVID-19 symptoms, request a test and self-isolate: A qualitative study

Lisa Woodland,
Fiona Mowbray,
Louise E. Smith,
Rebecca K. Webster,
Richard Amlôt,
G James Rubin

Published: February 23, 2022
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0263537

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