Social mixing patterns relevant to infectious diseases spread by close contact in urban Blantyre, Malawi
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SciScore for 10.1101/2021.12.16.21267959: (What is this?)
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Table 1: Rigor
NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.Table 2: Resources
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Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:Limitations include that reported contacts by participants may be subject to recall bias 49. This bias was partially addressed, however, by conducting two visits within three days; asking participants on the first visit to remember all their contacts during waking up and going to bed, and on the second visit, asking participants to report those contacts. Prospective reporting of cases reduces bias, but can lead to overreporting 50. …
SciScore for 10.1101/2021.12.16.21267959: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.Table 2: Resources
No key resources detected.
Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your code and data.
Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:Limitations include that reported contacts by participants may be subject to recall bias 49. This bias was partially addressed, however, by conducting two visits within three days; asking participants on the first visit to remember all their contacts during waking up and going to bed, and on the second visit, asking participants to report those contacts. Prospective reporting of cases reduces bias, but can lead to overreporting 50. Data on contacts within schools and other indoor spaces were not collected at fine scale, hence are difficult to assess. Social contacts may change over time 19, 20, and our cross-sectional design did not include longitudinal sampling of mixing patterns. Our results may not be generalisable to rural settings of Malawi that have relatively low household density and socio-economic activities but large school sizes compared to urban communities 51. Thus, it remains uncertain whether or not contacts would be low given mixed results from rural Zimbabwe and Kenya 13, 25. In conclusion, high rates of physical, age-assortative and localised contacts were observed, particularly among secondary school children and adults. With the demographic shift that many LICs are undergoing this raises the potential for adults in this and similar settings to play a more prominent role in the transmission of respiratory diseases than typically the case in HICs. In addition, the lack of change in contact behavior in response to the ongoing pandemic highlights specific chal...
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