Use of wearable sensors to assess compliance of asthmatic children in response to lockdown measures for the COVID-19 epidemic
| Autor: | Harris Zacharatos, Panayiotis Kouis, Emmanouil Galanakis, Pinelopi Anagnostopoulou, Petros Koutrakis, Paraskevi Kinni, Souzana Achilleos, Andreas M. Matthaiou, Panayiotis K. Yiallouros, Georgios K. Nikolopoulos, Antonis Michanikou, Eleni Michaelidou, Stefania Papatheodorou, Helen Dimitriou |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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0301 basic medicine
Male medicine.medical_specialty Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Adolescent Science Physical activity Wearable computer Severity of Illness Index Medical and Health Sciences Article Environmental impact 03 medical and health sciences Wearable Electronic Devices 0302 clinical medicine Public health surveillance Environmental health Pandemic Severity of illness Health Sciences medicine Humans Public Health Surveillance 030212 general & internal medicine Child Wearable technology Monitoring Physiologic Public health Multidisciplinary Greece business.industry SARS-CoV-2 COVID-19 Asthma Social Mobility 030104 developmental biology Child Preschool Cyprus Medicine Female business Biomedical engineering |
| Zdroj: | Scientific Reports Scientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2021) |
| DOI: | 10.21203/rs.3.rs-37518/v1 |
| Popis: | Between March and April 2020, Cyprus and Greece health authorities enforced three escalated levels of public health interventions to control the COVID-19 pandemic. We quantified compliance of 108 asthmatic schoolchildren (53 from Cyprus, 55 from Greece, mean age 9.7 years) from both countries to intervention levels, using wearable sensors to continuously track personal location and physical activity. Changes in ‘fraction time spent at home’ and ‘total steps/day’ were assessed with a mixed-effects model adjusting for confounders. We observed significant mean increases in ‘fraction time spent at home’ in Cyprus and Greece, during each intervention level by 41.4% and 14.3% (level 1), 48.7% and 23.1% (level 2) and 45.2% and 32.0% (level 3), respectively. Physical activity in Cyprus and Greece demonstrated significant mean decreases by − 2,531 and − 1,191 (level 1), − 3,638 and − 2,337 (level 2) and − 3,644 and − 1,961 (level 3) total steps/day, respectively. Significant independent effects of weekends and age were found on ‘fraction time spent at home’. Similarly, weekends, age, humidity and gender had an independent effect on physical activity. We suggest that wearable technology provides objective, continuous, real-time location and activity data making possible to inform in a timely manner public health officials on compliance to various tiers of public health interventions during a pandemic. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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