Individual’s daily behaviour and intergenerational mixing in different social contexts of Kenya
| Autor: | Moses C. Kiti, Irene Adema, Stefano Merler, D. James Nokes, Piero Manfredi, Alessia Melegaro, Piero Poletti, Emanuele Del Fava |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Rural Population Urban Population Transportation Walking HM Social Environment 0302 clinical medicine Residence Characteristics Surveys and Questionnaires INFECTION Adolescent Adult Aged Child Child Preschool Communicable Disease Control Communicable Diseases Female Humans Infant Infant Newborn Kenya Middle Aged Students Young Adult Intergenerational Relations Social Behavior Infection transmission EPIDEMIOLOGY 030212 general & internal medicine Mixing (physics) 0303 health sciences Multidisciplinary SOCIAL CONTACT INFECTION KENYA EPIDEMIOLOGY Medicine Infectious diseases Psychology Science Sample (statistics) Article 03 medical and health sciences Effective interventions Preschool 030304 developmental biology Rural setting SOCIAL CONTACT Newborn KENYA RA Demography |
| Zdroj: | Scientific Reports Scientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-13 (2021) |
| ISSN: | 2045-2322 |
| Popis: | We investigated contact patterns in diverse social contexts in Kenya and the daily behaviours that may play a pivotal role in infection transmission to the most vulnerable leveraging novel data from a 2-day survey on social contacts and time use (TU) from a sample of 1407 individuals (for a total of 2705 person days) from rural, urban formal, and informal settings. We used TU data to build six profiles of daily behaviour based on the main reported activities, i.e., Homestayers (71.1% of person days), Workers (9.3%), Schoolers (7.8%), or locations at increasing distance from home, i.e., Walkers (6.6%), Commuters (4.6%), Travelers (0.6%). In the rural setting, we observed higher daily contact numbers (11.56, SD 0.23) and percentages of intergenerational mixing with older adults (7.5% of contacts reported by those younger than 60 years vs. less than 4% in the urban settings). Overall, intergenerational mixing with older adults was higher for Walkers (7.3% of their reported contacts), Commuters (8.7%), and Homestayers (5.1%) than for Workers (1.5%) or Schoolers (3.6%). These results could be instrumental in defining effective interventions that acknowledge the heterogeneity in social contexts and daily routines, either in Kenya or other demographically and culturally similar sub-Saharan African settings. |
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