Cargando…

Social Contact Patterns Associated With Tuberculosis: A Case-control Study in Southwest Iran

OBJECTIVES: Tuberculosis (TB) is a major public health concern worldwide. Social contact patterns can affect the epidemiology and risk of airborne diseases such as TB. This study was designed to investigate the social contact patterns associated with TB. METHODS: In this case-control study, groups o...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Amoori, Neda, Cheraghian, Bahman, Amini, Payam, Alavi, Seyed Mohammad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Society for Preventive Medicine 2022
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9561143/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36229911
http://dx.doi.org/10.3961/jpmph.22.335
_version_ 1784807884518850560
author Amoori, Neda
Cheraghian, Bahman
Amini, Payam
Alavi, Seyed Mohammad
author_facet Amoori, Neda
Cheraghian, Bahman
Amini, Payam
Alavi, Seyed Mohammad
author_sort Amoori, Neda
collection PubMed
description OBJECTIVES: Tuberculosis (TB) is a major public health concern worldwide. Social contact patterns can affect the epidemiology and risk of airborne diseases such as TB. This study was designed to investigate the social contact patterns associated with TB. METHODS: In this case-control study, groups of participants with and without TB were matched by age and sex. Participants reported the nature, location, frequency, and average duration of social contacts over 1 month. The duration and number of social and spatial contacts were compared between groups using the chi-square test and the t-test. Odds ratios (ORs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were used to quantify the relationship between social contact time and TB status. Data were analyzed using Stata version 11 statistical software. A p-value of <0.05 was considered to indicate statistical significance. RESULTS: In this study, 80 patients with TB and 172 control participants were included, and a total of 3545 social contacts were registered. Social contact with family members (OR, 1.72; 95% CI, 1.10 to 2.40), contact with a person with TB (OR, 1.53; 95% CI, 1.16 to 2.01), and contact at the participant’s home (OR, 1.42; 95% CI, 1.19 to 1.82) were significantly associated with TB status. CONCLUSIONS: The duration of long-term social contact, rather than the number of contacts, may be the main contact-related factor associated with TB transmission in this population. The focus of contact-tracing efforts should be on finding and treating both family members and long-term contacts in non-household settings.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-9561143
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2022
publisher Korean Society for Preventive Medicine
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-95611432022-10-19 Social Contact Patterns Associated With Tuberculosis: A Case-control Study in Southwest Iran Amoori, Neda Cheraghian, Bahman Amini, Payam Alavi, Seyed Mohammad J Prev Med Public Health Original Article OBJECTIVES: Tuberculosis (TB) is a major public health concern worldwide. Social contact patterns can affect the epidemiology and risk of airborne diseases such as TB. This study was designed to investigate the social contact patterns associated with TB. METHODS: In this case-control study, groups of participants with and without TB were matched by age and sex. Participants reported the nature, location, frequency, and average duration of social contacts over 1 month. The duration and number of social and spatial contacts were compared between groups using the chi-square test and the t-test. Odds ratios (ORs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were used to quantify the relationship between social contact time and TB status. Data were analyzed using Stata version 11 statistical software. A p-value of <0.05 was considered to indicate statistical significance. RESULTS: In this study, 80 patients with TB and 172 control participants were included, and a total of 3545 social contacts were registered. Social contact with family members (OR, 1.72; 95% CI, 1.10 to 2.40), contact with a person with TB (OR, 1.53; 95% CI, 1.16 to 2.01), and contact at the participant’s home (OR, 1.42; 95% CI, 1.19 to 1.82) were significantly associated with TB status. CONCLUSIONS: The duration of long-term social contact, rather than the number of contacts, may be the main contact-related factor associated with TB transmission in this population. The focus of contact-tracing efforts should be on finding and treating both family members and long-term contacts in non-household settings. Korean Society for Preventive Medicine 2022-09 2022-09-30 /pmc/articles/PMC9561143/ /pubmed/36229911 http://dx.doi.org/10.3961/jpmph.22.335 Text en Copyright © 2022 The Korean Society for Preventive Medicine https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Original Article
Amoori, Neda
Cheraghian, Bahman
Amini, Payam
Alavi, Seyed Mohammad
Social Contact Patterns Associated With Tuberculosis: A Case-control Study in Southwest Iran
title Social Contact Patterns Associated With Tuberculosis: A Case-control Study in Southwest Iran
title_full Social Contact Patterns Associated With Tuberculosis: A Case-control Study in Southwest Iran
title_fullStr Social Contact Patterns Associated With Tuberculosis: A Case-control Study in Southwest Iran
title_full_unstemmed Social Contact Patterns Associated With Tuberculosis: A Case-control Study in Southwest Iran
title_short Social Contact Patterns Associated With Tuberculosis: A Case-control Study in Southwest Iran
title_sort social contact patterns associated with tuberculosis: a case-control study in southwest iran
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9561143/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36229911
http://dx.doi.org/10.3961/jpmph.22.335
work_keys_str_mv AT amoorineda socialcontactpatternsassociatedwithtuberculosisacasecontrolstudyinsouthwestiran
AT cheraghianbahman socialcontactpatternsassociatedwithtuberculosisacasecontrolstudyinsouthwestiran
AT aminipayam socialcontactpatternsassociatedwithtuberculosisacasecontrolstudyinsouthwestiran
AT alaviseyedmohammad socialcontactpatternsassociatedwithtuberculosisacasecontrolstudyinsouthwestiran