Impact of Covid-19 Restrictions on Acute Gastroenteritis in Children
A Regional, Danish, Register-Based Study
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15717166 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eva Plantener (0000-0003-3150-9857, corresponding author), Kumanan Rune Nanthan, Ulrik Deding (0000-0002-8263-2989, Odense University Hospital), Mads Damkjær (0000-0001-7410-8573, Lillebaelt Hospital), Ea Sofie Marmolin (University of Southern Denmark), Lotte Høeg Hansen (0000-0002-8679-9364, Region of Southern Denmark), Jens Petersen (0000-0002-7571-3756), Roberto Pinilla, John Coia (0000-0002-4966-8453), Donna Lykke Wolff (0000-0002-9131-8991, University of Southern Denmark), Zhijun Song (0000-0002-7002-3385), Ming Chen (0000-0001-6387-3739) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 816-816 |
| Publication date | 2023-04-29 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Children (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2227-9067 • E-ISSN: 2227-9067 |
| Publisher | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (PUBLISHER • CH) |
| DOI | 10.3390/children10050816 |
| PMID | 37238364 |
| OpenAlex | W4367625754 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
This study aimed to evaluate the impact of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) restrictions such as social distancing on the occurrence of acute gastroenteritis (AGE) among children. This study is a register-based study, including every child seen in the departments of paediatrics with the initial diagnosis of AGE in three neighbouring hospitals in Denmark, from March 2018 through February 2021. The study also included every positive stool sample for AGE-causing pathogens analysed in these three hospitals from children during the same period. The Wilcoxon rank-sum test was used to determine differences between the period during the SARS-CoV-2 restrictions and before. In all, 222,157 children were seen in the three paediatric departments during this period. Of these, 3917 children were diagnosed with AGE. We found a decrease of 46.6% in AGE-related visits per month after the SARS-CoV-2 restrictions were introduced compared to before ( p -value p -value = 0.008) during the restrictions. This study found that cases of paediatric AGE decreased significantly the during COVID-19 restrictions, suggesting that studies should be conducted to determine whether this reduction was a result of good hand hygiene and social distancing or just a result of altered health-seeking behaviour among children
Acute gastroenteritis · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Danish · Disease · Hygiene · Mann–Whitney U test · Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2 · Social distance · Wilcoxon signed-rank test · COVID-19 and healthcare impacts · Demography · Medicine · Respiratory viral infections research · Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology · Internal Medicine · Pediatrics
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |