印度尼西亚苏马特拉北部儿童中COVID-19的传播和概况
Ayodhia Pitaloka Pasaribu1,2, Restuti Hidayani Saragih2,3, Fahmi Fahmi4
1Department of Child Health, Medical Faculty, Universitas Sumatera Utara, Medan, Indonesia.
Archives of Iranian medicine
|August 6, 2023
概括
新冠肺炎2019 (COVID-19) 严重影响了苏门答腊北部的儿童,患有潜在疾病的儿童的死亡率更高. 主要的传播集群发生在与密切,长时间接触的环境中.
科学领域:
- 儿科 儿科 儿科
- 传染性疾病 传染性疾病
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
背景情况:
- 新型冠状病毒疾病2019 (COVID-19) 在2019年底出现,初步报告表明儿童患病率较低.
- 关于儿童群体中COVID-19的具体负担和特征的数据有限.
- 了解儿科COVID-19对于有效的公共卫生战略至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 调查北苏门答腊儿童中COVID-19的个人资料和传播模式.
- 分析儿科COVID-19病例的特征和结果.
- 识别儿童中COVID-19传播的高风险环境.
主要方法:
- 来自北苏门答腊省卫生局的回顾性数据收集.
- 分析了2020年4月至10月期间1125例确诊的儿科COVID-19病例.
- 使用STATA v15.0.0的描述统计 (平均±SD,百分比) 和推断分析.
主要成果:
- 在北苏门答腊 (1125例) 的所有COVID-19病例中,儿童占8.9%.
- 儿科病例中的死亡率为0.62%,所有死亡发生在患有先前疾病的儿童中.
- 在伊斯兰寄宿学校和难民庇护所中确定了四个重要的传播集群.
结论:
- 北苏门答腊在儿童中经历了相当大的COVID-19负担.
- 潜在的健康状况显著增加了儿科COVID-19病例的死亡风险.
- 促进长期密切接触的环境,如寄宿学校和庇护所,是传播的热点.
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