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Facemasks and intensified hand hygiene in a German household trial during the 2009/2010 influenza A(H1N1) pandemic: adherence and tolerability in children and adults

Authors :
Walter Haas
Susanne Schink
Udo Buchholz
Monika Luchtenberg
Gérard Krause
Thorsten Suess
Cornelius Remschmidt
Source :
Epidemiology and Infection. 139:1895-1901
Publication Year :
2011
Publisher :
Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2011.

Abstract

SUMMARYNon-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) such as facemasks and intensified hand hygiene may be effective in preventing influenza infections in households. It may be equally important that household members, especially children, can learn to use, maintain and tolerate these measures. We monitored adherence and tolerability of these NPI within a cluster-randomized trial in households with influenza index patients. We recruited 147 participants in 41 households, 39 (95%) out of 41 index patients were children (aged

Details

ISSN :
14694409 and 09502688
Volume :
139
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Epidemiology and Infection
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....7b37efa674c42f3503a038d619587fac
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0950268810003006