scholarly journals Case series of hand foot mouth disease in children

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
A Thumjaa
2014 ◽  
pp. 192-198
Author(s):  
Quang Hung Thai ◽  
Thanh Hue Dinh ◽  
Dinh Binh Tran

Introduction: Hand-foot-mouth-disease (HFMD) is an emerging infectious disease caused by enterovirus. Based on the surveillance data of HFMD and climatic parameters, this study aims to describe the distribution of HFMD in Dak Lak in 2012-2013 and explore the influence of climatic factors on HFMD cases. Methodology: Case series and ecologic studies were used. HFMD case was defined based on MOH’s guidelines. Poisson regression was used to examine the association between the incidence of HFMD and climatic factors. Results: There were 6913 cases of HFMD in Dak Lak in 2012-2013. Mean age (SD) was 24 (17) months. The incidence of HFMD (per 100,000) was 224 in male, 165 in female, 227 in Kinh people, 119 in ethnic minority people. HFMD occurred in all districts and scattered throughout the year, but the highest incidence was in September, October and November (accounting for 43.3%). The climatic variables were related to HFMD cases. Each 1°C rising in temperature corresponded to an increased of 6.3% (RR=1.063, 95%CI=1.037-1.089) in the monthly number of HFMD cases. Similarly, an increase of each 1% in relative humidity, 50mm in rainfall or 5 hour of sunlight corresponded to an increase of 9,8% (RR=1.098, 95% CI=1.087-1.110); 1.7% (RR=1.017, 95% CI=1.005-1.029); 3.4% (RR=1.034, 95% CI=1.029-1.040) in the monthly number of HFMD cases respectively. Conclusions: HFMD occurred all the year round, peaked from September through November. The disease occurred mainly in children under 5 years of age (96%), more common in boys than in girls (ratio 1.4), in Kinh than ethnic minority people (ratio 1.9). There were HFMD cases in all districts of the province. Climatic factors (temperature, humidity, precipitation, sunshine hours) had a significant influence on occurrence and transmission of HFMD. Keywords: Hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD), climatic factors


Author(s):  
Elisabetta Venturini ◽  
Luisa Galli ◽  
Elena Chiappini ◽  
Maurizio De Martino ◽  
Andrea Bassi

PLoS ONE ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. e92745 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiaojiao Wang ◽  
Zhidong Cao ◽  
Daniel Dajun Zeng ◽  
Quanyi Wang ◽  
Xiaoli Wang ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 104 (8) ◽  
pp. 1229-1234

Background: Hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD) is an infectious disease that mainly occurs in children under five years old. Vietnam is a developing country with high prevalence of the disease outbreak every year. Can Tho City, Co Do District had the highest incidence of children under five years old acquired HFMD. Objective: 1) To determine the factors correlating with knowledge, attitude, and practice in HFMD prevention of mothers having children under five years old, and 2) to evaluate the alteration in knowledge, attitude, and practice in prevention HFMD of mothers having children under five years old after intervention with health educational communication. Materials and Methods: Community intervention study was done in 420 subjects. At first, all the participants would do the questionnaire and practicing assessment. Then, the participants were divided into two groups, the intervened group for educational communication, and the control group with no intervention. The intervention included three steps, 1) training knowledge and skills for medical staffs and collaborators, 2) providing information about HFMD for the mothers, 3) broadcasting information leaflets to the subjects’ house every month. The assessment in awareness, attitude, and practice would be performed again after one month. The present study staff achieved approval from the Science and Educating Council of Can Tho University of Medicine and Pharmacy. In addition, the present study also received the agreement from The People’s Committee of Co Do District. Results: The present study results shows that 23.3% of mothers had the right knowledge, 50.5% of mothers had the right attitude, and 17.4% of mothers with children under five years of age had the right disease prevention practice. There was an association between education level of mothers with children under five years of age with knowledge, attitude, and practice in disease prevention. After intervention, knowledge of the mothers in the intervened group improved more than 2.79 times, right attitude more than 2.84 times, and practice improvement more than 1.83 times in compared with the control group. Conclusion: Educational communication plays an important role in HFMD disease prevention through increasing the awareness, opinion, and disease prevention of the mothers who directly take care of the under five years old children. Keywords: Hand-foot-mouth disease; Knowledge; Attitudes; Practices; Effective intervention


2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Masami Toya ◽  
Yuichiro Endo ◽  
Hideaki Tanizaki ◽  
Akihiro Fujisawa ◽  
Miki Tanioka ◽  
...  

2010 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 677 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sue K. Park ◽  
Boyoung Park ◽  
Moran Ki ◽  
Ho Kim ◽  
Kwan Lee ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chen Gao ◽  
Bichen Wu ◽  
Shaojie Yu ◽  
Fenghua Peng ◽  
Gongbin Lan ◽  
...  

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 381-385
Author(s):  
Guo Guangzhou ◽  
Zhang Dongxiao ◽  
Yang Fan ◽  
Wang Bing ◽  
Liu Tao ◽  
...  

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