Fig. 2

Number and proportions of participants in each category of non-consent to primary health care data extraction and linkage for research (total n = 261). ‘Other’ category consists of: ‘Does not believe they had COVID-19’ n = 9; ‘Bad experience with COVID-19’ n = 5;’Treated badly by Queensland Health’ n = 4; ‘Live overseas’ n = 4; ‘Research study concept is not valid’ n = 4; ‘Ongoing health issues’ n = 3; ‘Feel over-researched’ n = 2; ‘Language barrier’ n = 1; ‘Job at risk if identified’ n = 1; ‘Patient recently deceased’ n = 1