School Closures and Student Contact Patterns

• DOI: 10.3201/eid1702.100458
• Publication Date: 2011-02-01T17:10:11Z
• Authors: Charlotte Jackson; Punam Mangtani; Emilia Vynnycky; Katherine Fielding; Aileen Kitching; Huda Mohamed; Anita Roche; Helen Maguire
• Keywords: Closure (psychology); Pandemic; 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak

Abstract To determine how school closure for pandemic (H1N1) 2009 affected students' contact patterns, we conducted a retrospective questionnaire survey at UK 2 weeks after the reopened. School was associated with 65% reduction in mean total number of contacts each student.