Seattle Mother-Infant COVID-19 study
THANK YOU TO ALL OF OUR PARTICIPANTS
This study has closed. Published results are publicly available at Frontiers in Immunology:
About the Seattle Mother-Infant COVID-19 Study
Between June 2020 - March 2021, researchers at the University of Washington recruited mothers infected with COVID-19 and their infants for a study of COVID-19 outcomes in families. Comparative data were also collected from mothers who tested negative for COVID-19 following suspected infection, and from breastfeeding mothers with no known COVID-19 exposures. The aims of this study were to examine maternal and infant outcomes following maternal infection
Maternal participants in the Seattle Mother-Infant COVID-19 (SMIC) Study were recruited from the Greater Seattle area; were at least 18 years old; and had an infant or child under 3 years of age. Mothers completed phone interviews and collected breast milk (as applicable) and finger-prick blood spots from themselves and their infants over two months for viral RNA and antibody testing
Funding and contact info:
The SMIC Study was approved by the UW Human Subjects Division and conducted in collaboration with Washington State University, the University of Idaho, and Tulane University. Funding was provided in part by the National Science Foundation (IOS-2031888) and the UW Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology (P2C HD042828)
SMIC Study PI: Dr. Melanie Martin, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington Seattle.
For more information contact: seattlemomcovid19@gmail.com