Relationship between national changes in mobility due to non-pharmaceutical interventions and emergency department visits due to pediatric acute respiratory infections during the COVID-19 pandemic

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dc.contributor.authorDíaz, Francoes
dc.contributor.authorCarvajal, Cristóbales
dc.contributor.authorGatica, Sebastiánes
dc.contributor.authorVásquez-Hoyos, Pabloes
dc.contributor.authorJabornisky, Robertoes
dc.contributor.authorVon Moltke, Richardes
dc.contributor.authorJaramillo-Bustamante, Juan Camiloes
dc.contributor.authorPizarro, Federicoes
dc.contributor.authorCruces, Pabloes
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-23T16:46:51Z
dc.date.available2023-05-23T16:46:51Z
dc.date.issued2022-01
dc.description.abstractBackground Strong social distancing measures were quickly implemented in Chile during the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak. One of the aims of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) mandates was to decrease overcrowding, thus is usually measured as mobility changes. Methods we gather data from national health statistics for pediatric emergency (PED) visits for acute respiratory infection (ARI) in children younger than 15. We defined a historical cohort, including data from 2016 to 2019, and compared them with 2020 and 2021 pandemic years. Also, Chile’s national mobility reports from the online google database were downloaded. We tested the correlation between changes in mobility and relative reduction in PED-ARI by Spearman’s Rank Test. Results Historical data showed a mean of 46863 ± 3071 PED-ARI weekly visits with a high seasonal variation, with two peaks in weeks 20 and 28 and weeks 32 to 36. This transient drop was temporally associated with the mid-winter 2-week holiday of schools. The usual PED visits peaks did not occur in 2020 and 2021. Mobility declined from week 9, reaching lower than historical data from week 12 and a minimum of 43% in week 15 of 2020 . The correlation between mobility and PED-ARI visits showed a strong monotonic relationship (quadratic) with a Spearman’s rho of 0.80 (95% CI 0.75 to 0.86) . Conclusion NPI resulting in a decrease in mobility should be considered a robust public health measure to relieve the winter’s collapse of the national health system, decreasing morbimortality in children due to PED-ARI.es
dc.identifier.citationDiaz F, Carvajal C, Gatica S, Vasquez-Hoyos P, Jabornisky R, von Moltke R, Jaramillo-Bustamante JC, Pizarro F, Cruces P. Relationship between national changes in mobility due to non-pharmaceutical interventions and emergency department visits due to pediatric acute respiratory infections during the COVID-19 pandemic. medRxiv. 2022; 1. DOI: 10.1101/2022.06.16.22276017es
dc.identifier.orcid0000-0003-4763-074Xes
dc.identifier.orcid0000-0002-4892-5032es
dc.identifier.orcid0000-0002-0880-9571es
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://doi.org/10.1101/2022.06.16.22276017
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12254/3257
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publishermedRxiv (Distribuidor de documentos electrónicos inéditos sobre ciencias de la salud)es
dc.rightsAtribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 3.0 Chile (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 CL)
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/cl/
dc.subject.otherPediatricsen_US
dc.subject.otherCOVID-19en_US
dc.subject.otherPARDSen_US
dc.subject.otherPandemicen_US
dc.titleRelationship between national changes in mobility due to non-pharmaceutical interventions and emergency department visits due to pediatric acute respiratory infections during the COVID-19 pandemicen_US
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