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Hand-Washing: The Main Strategy for Avoiding Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease
Epidemics of hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) among children have caused concern in China since 2007. We have conducted a retrospective study to investigate risk factors associated with HFMD. In this non-matching case-control study, 99 HFMD patients and 126 control from Guangdong Province were en...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4924067/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27322307 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph13060610 |
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author | Zhang, Dingmei Li, Zhiyuan Zhang, Wangjian Guo, Pi Ma, Zhanzhong Chen, Qian Du, Shaokun Peng, Jing Deng, Yu Hao, Yuantao |
author_facet | Zhang, Dingmei Li, Zhiyuan Zhang, Wangjian Guo, Pi Ma, Zhanzhong Chen, Qian Du, Shaokun Peng, Jing Deng, Yu Hao, Yuantao |
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description | Epidemics of hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) among children have caused concern in China since 2007. We have conducted a retrospective study to investigate risk factors associated with HFMD. In this non-matching case-control study, 99 HFMD patients and 126 control from Guangdong Province were enlisted as participants. Data comprising demographic, socio-economic, clinical and behavior factors were collected from children’s parents through face-to-face interviews by trained interviewers using a standardized questionnaire. Results of the primary logistic regression analyses revealed that age, history of cold food consumption, hand-washing routines, and airing out bedding were significantly associated with HFMD cases. Results of further multivariate analysis indicated that older age (OR = 0.44, 95% CI: 0.34–0.56) and hand-washing before meals (OR = 0.3, 95% CI: 0.13–0.70) are protective factors, whereas airing out bedding more than thrice a month (OR = 4.55, 95% CI: 1.19–17.37) was associated with increased risk for HFMD. Therefore, hand-washing should be recommended to prevent HFMD, and the potential threat of airing out bedding should be carefully considered. However, further studies are needed to examine other possible risk factors. |
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spelling | pubmed-49240672016-07-05 Hand-Washing: The Main Strategy for Avoiding Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease Zhang, Dingmei Li, Zhiyuan Zhang, Wangjian Guo, Pi Ma, Zhanzhong Chen, Qian Du, Shaokun Peng, Jing Deng, Yu Hao, Yuantao Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Epidemics of hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) among children have caused concern in China since 2007. We have conducted a retrospective study to investigate risk factors associated with HFMD. In this non-matching case-control study, 99 HFMD patients and 126 control from Guangdong Province were enlisted as participants. Data comprising demographic, socio-economic, clinical and behavior factors were collected from children’s parents through face-to-face interviews by trained interviewers using a standardized questionnaire. Results of the primary logistic regression analyses revealed that age, history of cold food consumption, hand-washing routines, and airing out bedding were significantly associated with HFMD cases. Results of further multivariate analysis indicated that older age (OR = 0.44, 95% CI: 0.34–0.56) and hand-washing before meals (OR = 0.3, 95% CI: 0.13–0.70) are protective factors, whereas airing out bedding more than thrice a month (OR = 4.55, 95% CI: 1.19–17.37) was associated with increased risk for HFMD. Therefore, hand-washing should be recommended to prevent HFMD, and the potential threat of airing out bedding should be carefully considered. However, further studies are needed to examine other possible risk factors. MDPI 2016-06-18 2016-06 /pmc/articles/PMC4924067/ /pubmed/27322307 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph13060610 Text en © 2016 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Zhang, Dingmei Li, Zhiyuan Zhang, Wangjian Guo, Pi Ma, Zhanzhong Chen, Qian Du, Shaokun Peng, Jing Deng, Yu Hao, Yuantao Hand-Washing: The Main Strategy for Avoiding Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease |
title | Hand-Washing: The Main Strategy for Avoiding Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease |
title_full | Hand-Washing: The Main Strategy for Avoiding Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease |
title_fullStr | Hand-Washing: The Main Strategy for Avoiding Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease |
title_full_unstemmed | Hand-Washing: The Main Strategy for Avoiding Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease |
title_short | Hand-Washing: The Main Strategy for Avoiding Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease |
title_sort | hand-washing: the main strategy for avoiding hand, foot and mouth disease |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4924067/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27322307 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph13060610 |
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