Table 1. Characteristics of participants who took part in qualitative interviews about making sense of and acting on advice about eczema treatments in online forums

Gender	n	Children with eczema in household	n
Female	15	1	11
Male	0	2	4
		≥3	0
Age	n
18–25 years	0	Age of child(ren) with eczema	n
26–35 years	6	0–2 years	6
36–50 years	9	3–5 years	7
>51 years	0	6–8 years	3
		9–11 years	1
Residency	n	12–15 years	2
England	14	16–18 years	0
Scotland	1
Wales	0	Recruitment method	n
Northern Ireland	0	Online advertisement	7
		Opportunistic or snowballing	8
Format of interview	n
Face to face at university	4
Face to face at home	1
Telephone	10