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Symptomatic Survey of COVID-19 in the Rural Health and Demographic Surveillance Site of Maharashtra, India

INTRODUCTION: The COVID-19 epidemic is fast-evolving and restrictions to contain it changes quickly. The secondary attack rate (SAR) indicates the infectiousness at the household level, and it provides a clue of load of infections in the community. Rapid implementation of a large scale, but brief su...

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Autores principales: Gothankar, Jayashree Sachin, Narula, Arvinder Pal Singh, Patil, Karamchand, Deshmukh, Rupeshkumar, Patil, Jayesh, Doke, Prakash, Karanjkar, Ajit
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Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9671193/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36204900
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/aam.aam_98_20
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author Gothankar, Jayashree Sachin
Narula, Arvinder Pal Singh
Patil, Karamchand
Deshmukh, Rupeshkumar
Patil, Jayesh
Doke, Prakash
Karanjkar, Ajit
author_facet Gothankar, Jayashree Sachin
Narula, Arvinder Pal Singh
Patil, Karamchand
Deshmukh, Rupeshkumar
Patil, Jayesh
Doke, Prakash
Karanjkar, Ajit
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description INTRODUCTION: The COVID-19 epidemic is fast-evolving and restrictions to contain it changes quickly. The secondary attack rate (SAR) indicates the infectiousness at the household level, and it provides a clue of load of infections in the community. Rapid implementation of a large scale, but brief survey provides a nationally representative view of the pandemic's progression and impact as well as the effect of the measures taken to control the spread. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This cross-sectional study was done for a period of 2 months July–August 2020, in one of the rural health and demographic surveillance system (HDSS) site in India among 11,507 households having 46,571 individuals with the objective to determine the prevalence of the COVID-19 infection and to estimate the family SAR. The data were collected using the mobile phone by calling the head of the households registered under the HDSS. The research tool was created using questions based on the guidelines provided by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, India. The interviewers were first trained in data collection. RESULTS: The households of 33,780 individuals were contacted and 33 patients were diagnosed as COVID positive, prevalence rate of 0.1% was thus documented through telephonic survey. The mean age of COVID patients was found to be 37 ± 16 years, and 63% of the diagnosed patients were males, majority of them belonged to above poverty line households. During the survey, 46 individuals reported to have the symptoms suggestive of COVID, fever and cough were the most commonly reported symptoms. The family SAR of 17.2% was documented. CONCLUSION: Thus to conclude a low COVID-19 prevalence rate of 0.1%, a higher family SAR of 17.2% was reported in the current study. Timely diagnosis and quarantine of close contacts should be continued to be implemented rigorously to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus. These efforts will be useful to contain the epidemic before it reaches an alarming level in the rural areas. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This cross-sectional study was done for a period of 2 months July–August 2020, in one of the rural health and demographic surveillance system (HDSS) site in India among 11,507 households having 46,571 individuals with the objective to determine the prevalence of the COVID-19 infection and to estimate the family SAR. The data were collected using the mobile phone by calling the head of the households registered under the HDSS. The research tool was created using questions based on the guidelines provided by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, India. The interviewers were first trained in data collection.
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spelling pubmed-96711932022-11-18 Symptomatic Survey of COVID-19 in the Rural Health and Demographic Surveillance Site of Maharashtra, India Gothankar, Jayashree Sachin Narula, Arvinder Pal Singh Patil, Karamchand Deshmukh, Rupeshkumar Patil, Jayesh Doke, Prakash Karanjkar, Ajit Ann Afr Med Original Article INTRODUCTION: The COVID-19 epidemic is fast-evolving and restrictions to contain it changes quickly. The secondary attack rate (SAR) indicates the infectiousness at the household level, and it provides a clue of load of infections in the community. Rapid implementation of a large scale, but brief survey provides a nationally representative view of the pandemic's progression and impact as well as the effect of the measures taken to control the spread. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This cross-sectional study was done for a period of 2 months July–August 2020, in one of the rural health and demographic surveillance system (HDSS) site in India among 11,507 households having 46,571 individuals with the objective to determine the prevalence of the COVID-19 infection and to estimate the family SAR. The data were collected using the mobile phone by calling the head of the households registered under the HDSS. The research tool was created using questions based on the guidelines provided by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, India. The interviewers were first trained in data collection. RESULTS: The households of 33,780 individuals were contacted and 33 patients were diagnosed as COVID positive, prevalence rate of 0.1% was thus documented through telephonic survey. The mean age of COVID patients was found to be 37 ± 16 years, and 63% of the diagnosed patients were males, majority of them belonged to above poverty line households. During the survey, 46 individuals reported to have the symptoms suggestive of COVID, fever and cough were the most commonly reported symptoms. The family SAR of 17.2% was documented. CONCLUSION: Thus to conclude a low COVID-19 prevalence rate of 0.1%, a higher family SAR of 17.2% was reported in the current study. Timely diagnosis and quarantine of close contacts should be continued to be implemented rigorously to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus. These efforts will be useful to contain the epidemic before it reaches an alarming level in the rural areas. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This cross-sectional study was done for a period of 2 months July–August 2020, in one of the rural health and demographic surveillance system (HDSS) site in India among 11,507 households having 46,571 individuals with the objective to determine the prevalence of the COVID-19 infection and to estimate the family SAR. The data were collected using the mobile phone by calling the head of the households registered under the HDSS. The research tool was created using questions based on the guidelines provided by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, India. The interviewers were first trained in data collection. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022 2022-09-26 /pmc/articles/PMC9671193/ /pubmed/36204900 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/aam.aam_98_20 Text en Copyright: © 2022 Annals of African Medicine https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Gothankar, Jayashree Sachin
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Patil, Karamchand
Deshmukh, Rupeshkumar
Patil, Jayesh
Doke, Prakash
Karanjkar, Ajit
Symptomatic Survey of COVID-19 in the Rural Health and Demographic Surveillance Site of Maharashtra, India
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title_full_unstemmed Symptomatic Survey of COVID-19 in the Rural Health and Demographic Surveillance Site of Maharashtra, India
title_short Symptomatic Survey of COVID-19 in the Rural Health and Demographic Surveillance Site of Maharashtra, India
title_sort symptomatic survey of covid-19 in the rural health and demographic surveillance site of maharashtra, india
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9671193/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36204900
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/aam.aam_98_20
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