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The contact diary has been the mainstay of studies recording contact data, in which, for example, respondents record whom they contact (age, gender) and how often, whether there was skin-to-skin contact, the location (home, work, school, other), and how long the encounter lasted.
Every member of each participating household was requested to complete the contact diary.
We sought to address this knowledge gap by conducting a household based social contact diary in rural Vietnam.
To address this knowledge gap we have used a social contact diary approach to estimate the frequency and nature of social contacts in a semi-rural community of Vietnam.
(PDF 130 kb) Additional file 3: Contact Diary.
As well, post-discharge telephone contact diary records were obtained for 28 stroke survivors.
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Overall, at a coarse-grained level, the observed structure of the household contact matrices is consistent with the assumption of a strong age assortativity, as measured from self-reported contact diaries [16] and often integrated into mathematical epidemic models [54].
The recording of such behaviour has primarily been performed using daily contact diaries (self or 3rd party completed [9, 14, 16, 20, 21]), or retrospective questionnaires on contacts made [2, 12, 17, 22, 23].
We are the first group to report on contact behaviours relevant to the spread of respiratory infections from a developing country, and we are the first to report household structured contact diaries of this nature.
We initially evaluated two self-report methods, surveys of individuals and contact diaries.
Contact diaries in principle collect actual contact data from individuals over a specific period of time as the contact occurs.
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