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AUTHOR(S) Peng Gao; Shan Cai; Qiao Liu (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Anita Dileep; Sham ZainAlAbdin; Salah AbuRuz (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Bocong Yuan; Xinting Huang; Jiannan Lic (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Min Du; Liyuan Tao; Jue Liu (et al.)
In China, the national prevalence of parental influenza vaccine hesitancy (IVH) during the pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), and the association between risk perception and parental IVH are still unclear. This study aimed to explore the association between risk perception and IVH for children among reproductive women in China, a poorly studied area. From December 14, 2020, to January 31, 2021, we conducted a national anonymous online survey on IVH for children among reproductive women in China. We assessed risk perception including perceived susceptibility, severity, barriers, and benefits using the Health Belief Model and then classified each variable into three groups based on tertiles. Logistic regression models were used to calculate the adjusted odds ratio (aOR) of risk perception related to vaccine hesitancy after controlling for sociodemographic characteristics, health status, and knowledge of influenza, among other factors. Additionally, subgroup analysis was performed.
AUTHOR(S) Joanna Merckx; Shaun K. Morris; Joan Robinson (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Gabriela Marengone Altizani; Viviane da Mata Pasti Balbão; Gilberto Gambero Gaspar (et al.)
After the Covid-19 pandemics hit Brazil and sanitary measures were adopted to contain its dissemination, pediatric hospital admissions were apparently fewer than usual. The authors aimed to describe the time trends of public hospital admissions of children and adolescents due to respiratory infections (RIs) in São Paulo State, Brazil, before and after the adoption of sanitary measures to contain the dissemination of Covid-19. Ecological, time-series study on the monthly average number of admissions per day of children and adolescents (< 16 years) admitted to public hospitals of São Paulo due to acute RIs between January 2008 and March 2021. Data from 2008 to 2019 were used to adjust the statistical model, while data from 2020 and 2021 were compared to the values predicted by the model.
AUTHOR(S) Jeané Cloete; Annelet Kruger; Maureen Masha (et al.)
South Africa reported a notable increase in COVID-19 cases from mid-November, 2021, onwards, starting in Tshwane District, which coincided with the rapid community spread of the SARS-CoV-2 omicron (B.1.1.529) variant. This increased infection rate coincided with a rapid increase in paediatric COVID-19-associated admissions to hospital (hereafter referred to as hospitalisations). The Tshwane Maternal-Child COVID-19 study is a multicentre observational study which investigated the clinical manifestations and outcomes of paediatric patients (aged ≤19 years) who had tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 and were admitted to hospital for any reason in Tshwane District during a 6-week period at the beginning of the fourth wave of the COVID-19 epidemic in South Africa. It used five data sources, which were: (1) COVID-19 line lists; (2) collated SARS-CoV-2 testing data; (3) SARS-CoV-2 genomic sequencing data; (4) COVID-19 hospitalisation surveillance; and (5) clinical data of public sector COVID-19-associated hospitalisations among children aged 13 years and younger.
AUTHOR(S) Prateek Kumar Panda; Indar Kumar Sharawat; Vivekanand Natarajan (et al.)
Exact information about the efficacy of various medications proposed by regulatory bodies in children with COVID-19 is limited due to the lack of controlled trials in the existing literature. Different electronic databases (MEDLINE, EMBASE, Web of Science, COCHRANE CENTRAL, LitCovid, medRxiv, and bioRxiv) were searched for articles describing the management of COVID-19 cases in children with 18 shortlisted medications. Prospective/retrospective studies/case series (with at least 20 cases) reporting COVID-19 in patients aged ≤14 years were searched to collect information regarding clinical details and severity of participants, medications used, and outcome. The pooled estimate of these parameters across studies was performed using a random-effect or fixed-effect meta-analysis depending on the degree of heterogeneity.
AUTHOR(S) Niloofar Najafi; Hoorieh Soleimanjahi; Shadab Shahali (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Brennen Caveney; Jill S. Halterman; Maria Fagnano (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Rachel Harwood; Helen Yan; Nishanthi Talawila Da Camara (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Özlem Akgün; Gülşah Kavrul Kayaalp; Fatma Gül Demirkan (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Juliana Arenas; Sarah Becker; Hannah Seay (et al.)
School-supervised asthma therapy improves asthma medication adherence and morbidity, particularly among low-income and underrepresented minority (URM) children. However, COVID-19-related school closures abruptly suspended this therapy. In response, we developed a school-linked text message intervention. The purpose of the study is to investigate the feasibility and acceptability of a school-linked text message intervention.
AUTHOR(S) Petter Brodin
AUTHOR(S) Mike Saunders; Laura Nellums
The relative scarcity of paediatric COVID-19 disease infers protection from its direct harms. This study aims to highlight the potentially severe indirect effects of COVID-19 upon global childhood pneumonia. This is a discussion piece written from the authors’ perspective.It uses the social determinants of health to describe the indirect impact of COVID-19 upon global childhood pneumonia.
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