Student Behavior during a School Closure Caused by Pandemic Influenza A/H1N1
Student Behavior during a School Closure Caused by Pandemic Influenza A/H1N1
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DOI：
10.1371/journal.pone.0010425
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发表时间：
2010-05-05
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影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Lipsitch, Marc
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作者：
Miller, Joel C.;Danon, Leon;Lipsitch, Marc
背景：由于最近出现的甲型H1N1流感病毒大流行，许多学校暂时关闭。关闭学校以减少传播的有效性在很大程度上取决于关闭期间学生/家庭的行为。我们试图提高我们对这些behaviors.Methodology/Principal Findings的理解：为了描述这种行为，我们调查了9-12年级的学生和5-8年级学生的家长在疾病出现后的头几个月里，在为期一周的学校关闭期间的学生活动。我们发现显着的互动与社区和其他学生，但较少与其他学生的互动比在学校的互动水平增加grade.Conclusions：我们的研究结果是有用的，为未来的社会距离政策的设计和提高建模研究的能力，以准确地预测其影响。
Background: Many schools were temporarily closed in response to outbreaks of the recently emerged pandemic influenza A/H1N1 virus. The effectiveness of closing schools to reduce transmission depends largely on student/family behavior during the closure. We sought to improve our understanding of these behaviors.Methodology/Principal Findings: To characterize this behavior, we surveyed students in grades 9-12 and parents of students in grades 5-8 about student activities during a weeklong closure of a school during the first months after the disease emerged. We found significant interaction with the community and other students-though less interaction with other students than during school-with the level of interaction increasing with grade.Conclusions: Our results are useful for the future design of social distancing policies and to improving the ability of modeling studies to accurately predict their impact.