Tracking COVID for Safer Schools
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The primary objectives of this study are:
1. To determine the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection among the school staff, particularly classroom educators,
2. To determine the impact of COVID-19 on school staffs’ psychological well-being
3. To assess COVID-19 vaccine receptiveness among school staff,
The secondary objectives are:
1. To estimate SARS-CoV-2 asymptomatic transmission rates in schools.
2. To profile participants’ baseline T and B cell immunity against SARS-CoV-2 and circulating coronavirus
3. To assess baseline cellular and antibody cross-reactive immunity against SARS-CoV-2 and seasonal circulating coronavirus, and responses to SARS-CoV-2 vaccines in this population.
- Start Year
- 2021
- End Year
- 2022
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Design
- Study design
- Cohort
- Follow Up
- Participants was recruited in February 2021 and followed-up until March 2022.
Number of Participants
- Number of Participants
- 2,940
- Number of Participants with Biological Samples
- 2,940
Access
Availability of data and biosamples
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Timeline
TCSS population
The population is composed of all active classroom staff and administrators and other
staff members of the Vancouver School District, Delta School District, and the Richmond School District.
Selection Criteria
- Newborns
- Twins
- Countries
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- Canada
- Territory
- Vancouver, Richmond and Delta
- Ethnic Origin
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- Health Status
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- Other Criteria
- All active school staff members
Recruitment
- Sources of recruitment
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- Specific population
- Specific Population
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- Other specific population : School staff members of the Vancouver School District, Delta School District, Richmond School District
- Supplementary Information
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Participants were recruited by self-registration via study website, following emails from school districts to all staff members.
Number of Participants
- Number of Participants
- 2,446
- Number of Participants with Biological Samples
- 2,200
- Supplementary Information about selection criteria
Data Collection Events
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TCSS - Baseline
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Information was collected from an online questionnaire that included sociodemographic, vaccine perception and psychological well-being questions. Information was collected from an online ... | 2021-02 | 2021-06 |
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TCSS - Follow-up 1
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Information was collected from an online questionnaire that included sociodemographic, vaccine perception and psychological well-being questions. Information was collected from an online ... | 2021-10 | 2022-03 |
Classifications
- Socio-demographic and economic characteristics
- Lifestyle and behaviours
- Birth, pregnancy and reproductive health history
- Perception of health, quality of life, development and functional limitations
- Diseases
- Symptoms and signs
- Medication and supplements
- Non-pharmacological interventions
- Health and community care services utilization
- Death
- Physical measures and assessments
- Laboratory measures
- Cognition, personality and psychological measures and assessments
- Life events, life plans, beliefs and values
- Preschool, school and work life
- Social environment and relationships
- Physical environment
- Administrative information
Socio-demographic and economic characteristics
Age/birthdate
Sex/gender
Family and household structure
Education
Residence
Ethnicity, race and religion
Labour force and retirement
Lifestyle and behaviours
Tobacco
Alcohol
Nutrition
Physical activity
Sleep
Leisure activities
Technological devices
Perception of health, quality of life, development and functional limitations
Perception of health
Quality of life
Diseases
Certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
Neoplasms (C00-D48)
Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanism (D50-D89)
Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E90)
Diseases of the nervous system (G00-G99)
Diseases of the circulatory system (I00-I99)
Diseases of the respiratory system (J00-J99)
Diseases of the digestive system (K00-K93)
Diseases of the genitourinary system (N00-N99)
Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T98)
Diseases without precise specification or falling into multiple categories
Symptoms and signs
Symptoms and signs involving the circulatory and respiratory systems (R00-R09)
Symptoms and signs involving the digestive system and abdomen (R10-R19)
Symptoms and signs involving nervous and musculoskeletal systems (R25-R29)
Symptoms and signs involving cognition, perception, emotional state and behaviour (R40-R46)
General symptoms and signs (R50-R69)
Symptoms related to multiple categories
Medication and supplements
Medication and supplement intake
Posology and protocol of administration
Non-pharmacological interventions
Laboratory diagnosis interventions
Other and unspecified non-pharmacological interventions
Health and community care services utilization
Visits to health professionals
Hospitalizations
Physical measures and assessments
Anthropometry
Laboratory measures
Immunology
Cognition, personality and psychological measures and assessments
Personality
Psychological distress and emotions
Life events, life plans, beliefs and values
Beliefs and values
Preschool, school and work life
School life
Work life
Social environment and relationships
Social participation
Physical environment
Housing characteristics
Workplace characteristics
Biological exposure
Administrative information
Identifiers
Date and time-related information
Questionnaire and interview-related information
Physical and cognitive measure and biosample-related information
Other administrative information