Prevalence and determinants of symptomatic COVID-19 infection among children and adolescents in Qatar: a cross-sectional analysis of 11 445 individuals
| Autor: | Hayat S. Khogali, Mohammed Al-Thani, Jazeel Abdulmajeed, Sayed Himatt, Aiman Elberdiny, Suhail A.R. Doi, Luis Furuya-Kanamori, Shazia Nadeem N. Ahmed, Chang Xu, Osman Ameen, Mohamed A Sallam, Elmoubashar Farag, Hamad Al-Romaihi, Mohamed Nour, Abdallah Musa, Devendra Bansal, Nazmul Islam, Tawanda Chivese, Soha Shawqi Albayat, Omran A.H. Musa |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Fever Adolescent Epidemiology Cross-sectional study Age groups Interquartile range Risk Factors symptomatic COVID-19 Sore throat medicine Prevalence Humans Child Qatar Children Original Paper business.industry Headache Infant Newborn COVID-19 Infant Pharyngitis Confidence interval Infectious Diseases Increased risk Cross-Sectional Studies Cough Child Preschool Female medicine.symptom business Corrigendum |
| Zdroj: | Epidemiology and Infection |
| ISSN: | 1469-4409 |
| Popis: | There is a paucity of evidence about the prevalence and risk factors for symptomatic infection among children. This study aimed to describe the prevalence of symptomatic coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and its risk factors in children and adolescents aged 0–18 years in Qatar. We conducted a cross-sectional study of all children aged 0–18 years diagnosed with COVID-19 using polymerase chain reaction in Qatar during the period 1st March to 31st July 2020. A generalised linear model with a binomial family and identity link was used to assess the association between selected factors and the prevalence of symptomatic infection. A total of 11 445 children with a median age of 8 years (interquartile range (IQR) 3–13 years) were included in this study. The prevalence of symptomatic COVID-19 was 36.6% (95% confidence interval (CI) 35.7–37.5), and it was similar between children aged P = 0.001), having visited a health care facility (RD 0.54; 95% CI 0.45–0.62; P = 0.001), and children aged under 5 years (RD 0.05; 95% CI 0.02–0.07; P = 0.001) or aged 10 years or older (RD 0.04; 95% CI 0.02–0.06; P = 0.001). A third of the children with COVID-19 were symptomatic with a higher proportion of fever in very young children and a higher proportion of cough in those between 10 and 18 years of age. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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