3.1 Participant characteristics
Of the 279 who responded to the advert, 240 were eligible. After reading
the participant information sheet 142 continued. Of these, 37 were lost
to attrition. Based on demographics, there were no significant
differences between completers and non-completers. Of the remaining, 2
were excluded for providing the ages of multiple children leaving 103
participants.
The majority of participants were female (n=93, 90.3%), white (n=88,
85.4%) and living in Europe (n=69, 67%) or North America (n=30,
29.1%). On average participants had two children, with one diagnosed
with AD. See Table 1. Children were aged 3 months to 16 years and had
lived with AD from 1 month to 16 years. The majority of the children had
moderate (n=49, 47.6%) or severe (n=28, 27.2%) AD. See Table 1.