Longitudinal analyses suggest a higher burden of self-reported influenza-like illness among women and girls in a rural community in western Kenya.

ABSTRACT: Longitudinal studies that quantify influenza-like illness (ILI) burden while determining associated risk factors and intra-cluster correlation coefficients (ICCs) are scarce in Africa. This study aimed to identify longitudinal patterns of ILI and the associated independent variables while quantifying the burden by age and sex. We enrolled and followed 390 subjects nested within 92 households for 12 weeks, collecting weekly data on prespecified self-reported symptoms in a rural community in western Kenya. Using a standard case definition, reporting at least any four prespecified symptoms attained an ILI syndrome. Analyses related relationship between attaining ILI syndrome and independent variables using multilevel logistic regression models adjusting for age and sex. ICCs quantified cluste

SUBMITTER: Chweya RN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10446126 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature