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Trial reportEmerging infectious diseases2009

Face mask use and control of respiratory virus transmission in households.

C Raina MacIntyre, Simon Cauchemez, Dominic E Dwyer, Holly Seale, Pamela Cheung, Gary Browne, Michael Fasher, James Wood, Zhanhai Gao, Robert Booy and 1 more

Registry-linked trialOpen access · diamondAbstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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In one paragraph

Trial report in Emerging infectious diseases, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04878328 (Leveraging Community Health Workers to Improve COVID-19 Testing and Mitigation Among Criminal Justice-involved Individuals Accessing a Corrections-focused Community-based Organization), which is not on this map. Cited by 221 papers, 21 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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221citing papers in PubMed, 21 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT04878328 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2022, after this paper: background citation

Leveraging Community Health Workers to Improve COVID-19 Testing and Mitigation Among Criminal Justice-involved Individuals Accessing a Corrections-focused Community-based Organization

TypeinterventionalSponsorMontefiore Medical CenterRan2022 to 2025Enrolled250ConditionsCovid19ArmsOnsite Point-of-care
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

221 citing papers in PubMed, 21 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 392 citations in OpenAlex.

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  11. Facemask use in community settings to prevent respiratory infection transmission: A rapid review and meta-analysis.International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases · 2021
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  19. Uptake and effectiveness of facemask against respiratory infections at mass gatherings: a systematic review.International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases · 2016
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161 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

C Raina MacIntyreniversity of New South Wales School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. r.macintyre@unsw.edu.au
Simon Cauchemez
Dominic E Dwyer
Holly Seale
Pamela Cheung
Gary Browne
Michael Fasher
James Wood
Zhanhai Gao
Robert Booy
Neil Ferguson
Children's Hospital at Westmead · AUWestmead Institute · AUImperial College London · GBUNSW Sydney · AU

Funding

Training, Outreach & Diversity ComponentU54GM088491 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI LAKOSKI, JOAN M · 2009 to 2018
$16.7M
Medical Research Council
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many countries are stockpiling face masks for use as a nonpharmaceutical intervention to control virus transmission during an influenza pandemic. We conducted a prospective cluster-randomized trial comparing surgical masks, non-fit-tested P2 masks, and no masks in prevention of influenza-like illness (ILI) in households. Mask use adherence was self-reported. During the 2006 and 2007 winter seasons, 286 exposed adults from 143 households who had been exposed to a child with clinical respiratory illness were recruited. We found that adherence to mask use significantly reduced the risk for ILI-associated infection, but <50% of participants wore masks most of the time. We concluded that household use of face masks is associated with low adherence and is ineffective for controlling seasonal respiratory disease. However, during a severe pandemic when use of face masks might be greater, pandemic transmission in households could be reduced.

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Family CharacteristicsAdolescentAdultAustraliaChildChild, PreschoolHumansInfantInfant, NewbornInfluenza, HumanMasksPatient ComplianceProspective StudiesRespiratory Tract InfectionsSeasonsTreatment Outcome

Identifiers

PMID19193267
PMCPMC2662657
OpenAlexW2162023315

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