ArticleAnnals of family medicine2019
Respiratory Tract Infections in Children in the Community: Prospective Online Inception Cohort Study.
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- The impact of probiotics and vitamin C on the prevention of upper respiratory tract symptoms in two preschool children cohorts.Nutrition research and practice · 2024Article
- Symptom Burden and Factors Associated with Acute Respiratory Infections in the First Two Years of Life-Results from the LoewenKIDS Cohort.Microorganisms · 2022Article
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- Incidence, healthcare-seeking behaviours, antibiotic use and natural history of common infection syndromes in England: results from the Bug Watch community cohort study.BMC infectious diseases · 2021Article
- Respiratory infections in children: an appropriateness study of when parents should home care or seek medical help.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2021Article
- Respiratory Symptoms in Post-infancy Children. A Dutch Pediatric Cohort Study.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2020Article
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Abstract
purposeDescribe the duration of symptoms, proportion of parents seeking primary care consultations, and costs for respiratory tract infections (RTIs) of children in the community.
methodsCommunity-based, online, prospective inception cohort study. General practitioners from socioeconomically diverse practices posted study invitations to parents of 10,310 children aged ≥3 months and <15 years.
resultsOne parent of 485 (4.7%) children in 331 families consented, completed baseline data and symptom diaries, and agreed to medical record review. Compared with nonresponders, responding parent's children were younger (aged 4 vs 6 years) and less socioeconomically deprived. Between February and July 2016, 206 parents reported 346 new RTIs in 259 children. Among the 197 first RTIs reported per family, it took 23 days for 90% (95% CI, 85%-94%) of children to recover. Median symptom duration was longer: in children with primary care consultations (9 days) vs those without consultations (6 days,
conclusionsParents can be advised that RTI symptoms last up to 3 weeks. Policy makers should be aware that parents may seek primary care support in at least 1 in 12 illnesses.
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