Factors associated with diarrheal disease among children aged 1-5 years in a cholera epidemic in rural Haiti.

ABSTRACT: Diarrheal illness is a major cause of morbidity and mortality among children in Haiti, and the impact of diarrheal illness was compounded by a cholera outbreak between 2010 and 2019. Our understanding of risk factors for diarrhea among children during this outbreak is limited. We conducted a secondary analysis of data collected as part of a cholera vaccine effectiveness study to identify factors associated with medically attended diarrhea among children in central Haiti from October of 2012 through November of 2016. We identified 47 children aged one to five years old who presented to medical clinics with acute, watery diarrhea, and 166 matched controls who did not have diarrhea, and we performed conditional logistic regression to identify factors associated with diarrhea. Discontinuing ex

SUBMITTER: Dolstad HA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8535179 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature