Hand-Washing: The Main Strategy for Avoiding Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease.
Hand-Washing: The Main Strategy for Avoiding Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease.
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洗手：预防手足口病的主要策略
DOI：
10.3390/ijerph13060610
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发表时间：
2016-06-18
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通讯作者：
Hao Y
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作者：
Zhang D;Li Z;Zhang W;Guo P;Ma Z;Chen Q;Du S;Peng J;Deng Y;Hao Y
Epidemics of hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) among children have caused concern in China since 2007. We have conducted a retrospective study to investigate risk factors associated with HFMD. In this non-matching case-control study, 99 HFMD patients and 126 control from Guangdong Province were enlisted as participants. Data comprising demographic, socio-economic, clinical and behavior factors were collected from children’s parents through face-to-face interviews by trained interviewers using a standardized questionnaire. Results of the primary logistic regression analyses revealed that age, history of cold food consumption, hand-washing routines, and airing out bedding were significantly associated with HFMD cases. Results of further multivariate analysis indicated that older age (OR = 0.44, 95% CI: 0.34–0.56) and hand-washing before meals (OR = 0.3, 95% CI: 0.13–0.70) are protective factors, whereas airing out bedding more than thrice a month (OR = 4.55, 95% CI: 1.19–17.37) was associated with increased risk for HFMD. Therefore, hand-washing should be recommended to prevent HFMD, and the potential threat of airing out bedding should be carefully considered. However, further studies are needed to examine other possible risk factors.
