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Evaluation of anti-COVID-19 measures taken by the parents of children with celiac disease: a cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) causes negative life changes brought about through lockdowns, in addition to severe complications and death. Among these changes, asplenism or hyposplenism has been reported in patients with celiac disease. It has been reported that the risk of pneumoc...

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Autores principales: Bükülmez, Ayşegül, Baş, Melike Taşdelen, Çiftci, Esra
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Associação Paulista de Medicina - APM 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9625009/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33681884
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1516-3180.2020.0644.10122020
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author Bükülmez, Ayşegül
Baş, Melike Taşdelen
Çiftci, Esra
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description BACKGROUND: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) causes negative life changes brought about through lockdowns, in addition to severe complications and death. Among these changes, asplenism or hyposplenism has been reported in patients with celiac disease. It has been reported that the risk of pneumococcal sepsis is higher in celiac patients with hyposplenism. Moreover, celiac patients present high risk of admission to hospital due to influenza. OBJECTIVE: To determine the degree of awareness of COVID-19 among parents of children with celiac disease and examine the measures that they take. DESIGN AND SETTING: Cross-sectional study at a university hospital in the Middle Anatolian region of Turkey. METHODS: The diagnosis of celiac disease was confirmed through a survey conducted online among 73 parents between May and July 2020. RESULTS: The mean age was 37.57 ± 6.56 years for the mothers, 41.15 ± 5.56 years for the fathers and 11.36 ± 4.36 years for the children. 90.4% of the parents reported that COVID-19 was transmitted through “speaking, coughing, sneezing and infection of the face after contact with virus-infected surfaces”. Moreover, 78.1% indicated that they did not have any difficulty in finding gluten-free foods. CONCLUSION: These parents of children with celiac disease believed that their children’s risk of developing COVID-19 did not differ from that of healthy children. It was also observed that appetite and states of nervousness were higher among these children with celiac disease during lockdowns and that their sleep patterns were affected.
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spelling pubmed-96250092022-11-02 Evaluation of anti-COVID-19 measures taken by the parents of children with celiac disease: a cross-sectional study Bükülmez, Ayşegül Baş, Melike Taşdelen Çiftci, Esra Sao Paulo Med J Original Article BACKGROUND: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) causes negative life changes brought about through lockdowns, in addition to severe complications and death. Among these changes, asplenism or hyposplenism has been reported in patients with celiac disease. It has been reported that the risk of pneumococcal sepsis is higher in celiac patients with hyposplenism. Moreover, celiac patients present high risk of admission to hospital due to influenza. OBJECTIVE: To determine the degree of awareness of COVID-19 among parents of children with celiac disease and examine the measures that they take. DESIGN AND SETTING: Cross-sectional study at a university hospital in the Middle Anatolian region of Turkey. METHODS: The diagnosis of celiac disease was confirmed through a survey conducted online among 73 parents between May and July 2020. RESULTS: The mean age was 37.57 ± 6.56 years for the mothers, 41.15 ± 5.56 years for the fathers and 11.36 ± 4.36 years for the children. 90.4% of the parents reported that COVID-19 was transmitted through “speaking, coughing, sneezing and infection of the face after contact with virus-infected surfaces”. Moreover, 78.1% indicated that they did not have any difficulty in finding gluten-free foods. CONCLUSION: These parents of children with celiac disease believed that their children’s risk of developing COVID-19 did not differ from that of healthy children. It was also observed that appetite and states of nervousness were higher among these children with celiac disease during lockdowns and that their sleep patterns were affected. Associação Paulista de Medicina - APM 2021-03-03 /pmc/articles/PMC9625009/ /pubmed/33681884 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1516-3180.2020.0644.10122020 Text en © 2022 by Associação Paulista de Medicina https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons license.
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title Evaluation of anti-COVID-19 measures taken by the parents of children with celiac disease: a cross-sectional study
title_full Evaluation of anti-COVID-19 measures taken by the parents of children with celiac disease: a cross-sectional study
title_fullStr Evaluation of anti-COVID-19 measures taken by the parents of children with celiac disease: a cross-sectional study
title_full_unstemmed Evaluation of anti-COVID-19 measures taken by the parents of children with celiac disease: a cross-sectional study
title_short Evaluation of anti-COVID-19 measures taken by the parents of children with celiac disease: a cross-sectional study
title_sort evaluation of anti-covid-19 measures taken by the parents of children with celiac disease: a cross-sectional study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9625009/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33681884
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1516-3180.2020.0644.10122020
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