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Editor, Senior Moderator
Influenza Other Respir Viruses
. 2020 Sep 10.
doi: 10.1111/irv.12804. Online ahead of print.
Health-seeking behaviors of patients with acute respiratory infections during the outbreak of novel coronavirus disease 2019 in Wuhan, China
Juan Yang[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Hui Gong[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Xinhua Chen[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Zhiyuan Chen[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Xiaowei Deng[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Mengcen Qian[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Zhiyuan Hou[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Marco Ajelli[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Cecile Viboud[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Hongjie Yu[SUP] 1 [/SUP]
Affiliations
Abstract
We conducted two surveys to evaluate the health-seeking behaviors of individuals with acute respiratory infections (ARI) during the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, China. Among 351 participants reporting ARI (10.3%, 351/3,411), 36.5% sought medical assistance. Children were more likely to seek medical assistance than other age-groups (66.1% vs. 28.0%-35.1%). This population-based study demonstrates that the majority of patients with ARI symptoms did not seek medical assistance during the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan. These findings may be used to refine the estimates of disease burden and clinical severity of COVID-19 and to plan for health resources allocation.
Keywords: China; acute respiratory infections; health-seeking behaviors; novel coronavirus disease 2019.
. 2020 Sep 10.
doi: 10.1111/irv.12804. Online ahead of print.
Health-seeking behaviors of patients with acute respiratory infections during the outbreak of novel coronavirus disease 2019 in Wuhan, China
Juan Yang[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Hui Gong[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Xinhua Chen[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Zhiyuan Chen[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Xiaowei Deng[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Mengcen Qian[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Zhiyuan Hou[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Marco Ajelli[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Cecile Viboud[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Hongjie Yu[SUP] 1 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 32909400
- DOI: 10.1111/irv.12804
Abstract
We conducted two surveys to evaluate the health-seeking behaviors of individuals with acute respiratory infections (ARI) during the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, China. Among 351 participants reporting ARI (10.3%, 351/3,411), 36.5% sought medical assistance. Children were more likely to seek medical assistance than other age-groups (66.1% vs. 28.0%-35.1%). This population-based study demonstrates that the majority of patients with ARI symptoms did not seek medical assistance during the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan. These findings may be used to refine the estimates of disease burden and clinical severity of COVID-19 and to plan for health resources allocation.
Keywords: China; acute respiratory infections; health-seeking behaviors; novel coronavirus disease 2019.