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Syndromic surveillance as a predictive tool for health-related school absences in COVID-19 Sentinel Schools in Catalonia, Spain. (preprint)
medrxiv; 2023.
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in English
| medRxiv | ID: ppzbmed-10.1101.2023.03.24.23287681
ABSTRACT
Monitoring influenza-like illness through syndromic surveillance could be an important strategy in the COVID-19 emergence scenario. The study aims to implement syndromic surveillance for children aged 6-11 years in COVID-19 sentinel schools in Catalonia. Data collection was made by self-applied survey to collect daily health status and symptoms. We proceed logistic mixed models and a Latent Class Analysis to investigate associations with syndromes and school absence. Were enrolled 135 students (2163 person-days) that filled 1536 surveys and 60 participants reported illness (29.52 by 100 person/day) and registered 189 absence events, 62 of them (32.8%) related to health reasons. Subgroups of influenza-like illness were founded such as a significantly and positively association with school absences. The findings of this study can be applied to the detection of health events, and association with school absences, offering an opportunity for quick action, or simply for monitoring and understanding the students' health situation.
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COVID-19
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English
Year:
2023
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