Health seeking behaviors of patients with acute respiratory infections during the outbreak of novel coronavirus disease 2019 in Wuhan, China

Juan Yang; Hui Gong; Xinhua Chen; Zhiyuan Chen; Xiaowei Deng; Mengcen Qian; Zhiyuan Hou; Marco Ajelli; Cecile Viboud; Hongjie Yu

doi:10.1101/2020.05.05.20091553

Health seeking behaviors of patients with acute respiratory infections during the outbreak of novel coronavirus disease 2019 in Wuhan, China

medRxiv [Preprint]. 2020 May 8:2020.05.05.20091553. doi: 10.1101/2020.05.05.20091553.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ School of Public Health, Fudan University, Key Laboratory of Public Health Safety, Ministry of Education, Shanghai, China.
² Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Indiana University School of Public Health, Bloomington, IN, USA.
³ Division of International Epidemiology and Population Studies, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.

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%).

Publication types

Preprint