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.