Representative Contact Diaries for Modeling the Spread of Infectious Diseases in Taiwan

Fu, Yang-chih; Wang, Da-Wei; Chuang, Jen-Hsiang

First, we used the personal information from our sample list, as regulated by the law, only to locate and identify our targeted respondents and then destroyed the name list after the interviews. Second, all interviews required respondents' prior written informed consent (or that by the parents of respondents who were under 18 years old). When a targeted respondent was younger than age 9, a parent or a guardian who knew the child well answered the questions on the child's behalf. Third, we kept all completed questionnaires under strict anonymity and confidentiality, left no identifiable personal information (such as names of respondents or anyone listed in the contact diaries) in our electronic data set, and destroyed the completed questionnaires after data cleaning.