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Students aged 11\u201318\u00a0years in five London schools completed a short questionnaire about their perception of the pandemic, returning to school, risk to themselves and to others and infection control measures, and participating in school testing.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>A questionnaire was completed by 64% (297\/462)\u00a0of participants. Students were generally not anxious at all (19.7%; 58\/294) or not really anxious (40.0%; 114\/295) about returning to school, although 5.4% (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u200916\/295) were extremely nervous. Most students were very worried about transmitting the virus to their family (60.2%; 177\/294) rather than to other students (22.0%; 65\/296) or school staff (19.3%; 57\/296), or catching the infection themselves (12.5%; 37\/296). Students were more likely to maintain physical distancing in the presence of school staff (84.6%; 247\/292) and in public places (79.5%; 233\/293) but not when with other students (46.8%; 137\/293) or friends (40.8%; 120\/294). A greater proportion of younger students (school years 7\u20139; 11\u201314-year-olds) reported not being anxious at all than older students (school years 12\u201313; 16\u201318-year-olds) (47\/174 [27.0%] vs 3\/63 [4.8%]; <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.001). Younger students were also less likely to adhere to physical distancing\u00a0measures and wear face masks. Most students reported positive experiences with SARS-CoV-2 testing in schools, with 92.3% (262\/284) agreeing to have another blood test in future visits.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>Younger students in secondary schools were less concerned about catching and transmitting SARS-CoV-2 and were less likely to adhere to protective measures. Greater awareness of the potential risks of SARS-CoV-2 transmission between secondary school students potentially leading to increased risk of infection in their teachers and their household members may increase adherence to infection control measures within and outside schools.\n<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/s12887-022-03420-0","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,7,29]],"date-time":"2022-07-29T05:02:52Z","timestamp":1659070972000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":10,"title":["Perceptions of adolescents on the COVID-19 pandemic and returning to school: qualitative questionnaire survey, September 2020, England"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"22","author":[{"given":"Annabel A.","family":"Powell","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Georgina","family":"Ireland","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Felicity","family":"Aiano","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jessica","family":"Flood","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Zahin","family":"Amin-Chowdhury","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Joanne","family":"Beckmann","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Joanna","family":"Garstang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ifeanyichukwu","family":"Okike","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Shazaad","family":"Ahmad","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Mary E.","family":"Ramsay","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Shamez N.","family":"Ladhani","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Frances","family":"Baawuah","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,7,29]]},"reference":[{"key":"3420_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"m1985","DOI":"10.1136\/bmj.m1985","volume":"369","author":"AB Docherty","year":"2020","unstructured":"Docherty AB, Harrison EM, Green CA, et al. 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