2.3.2. Open-Ended Question
Parents were sent an additional survey between August 2020 and June 2021 that focused on their experiences during the pandemic, in which they were asked one open-ended question “Is there anything else that you would like to share about how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted you and your family?” to help us contextualize the quantitative responses. Participants were free to share as much or as little for this question as they wanted. Because this was a one-item question, research assistants transcribed the parent responses directly into REDCap during the survey administration, capturing word-for-word the parents’ brief responses whenever possible. For parents who completed the survey online, they typed their own responses into the online survey.