Health‐seeking behaviors of patients with acute respiratory infections during the outbreak of novel coronavirus disease 2019 in Wuhan, China
This article has been Reviewed by the following groups
Listed in
- Evaluated articles (ScreenIT)
Abstract
We conducted two surveys to evaluate the health‐seeking behaviors of individuals with acute respiratory infections (ARI) during the COVID‐19 outbreak in Wuhan, China. Among 351 participants reporting ARI (10.3%, 351/3,411), 36.5% sought medical assistance. Children were more likely to seek medical assistance than other age‐groups (66.1% vs. 28.0%‐35.1%). This population‐based study demonstrates that the majority of patients with ARI symptoms did not seek medical assistance during the COVID‐19 outbreak in Wuhan. These findings may be used to refine the estimates of disease burden and clinical severity of COVID‐19 and to plan for health resources allocation.
Article activity feed
-
-
SciScore for 10.1101/2020.05.05.20091553: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement IRB: The surveys were approved by the Institutional review board from School of Public Health, Fudan University (IRB#2020-01-0801).
Consent: Informed consent was obtained from all respondents/parents of children before surveys.Randomization First, we randomly dialed Wuhan mobile phone numbers to invite the participants through a computer-assisted interviewing system. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable Random dials/emails with proportional quota sampling were used to ensure that respondents were demographically representative of the general population, with quotas based on sex (female-to-male 1:1). Table 2: Resources
No key …
SciScore for 10.1101/2020.05.05.20091553: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement IRB: The surveys were approved by the Institutional review board from School of Public Health, Fudan University (IRB#2020-01-0801).
Consent: Informed consent was obtained from all respondents/parents of children before surveys.Randomization First, we randomly dialed Wuhan mobile phone numbers to invite the participants through a computer-assisted interviewing system. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable Random dials/emails with proportional quota sampling were used to ensure that respondents were demographically representative of the general population, with quotas based on sex (female-to-male 1:1). Table 2: Resources
No key resources detected.
Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:Despite the aforementioned limitations, our study provides key metrics that can be instrumental to fill this gap.
Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
Results from rtransparent:- Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
- Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
- No protocol registration statement was detected.
-