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Abstract
OBJECTIVE: to identify acute respiratory infections prevalence in preschool children from Rubén Jaramillo Town, Tecamachalco, Puebla, Mexico.
ADDITIONALLY: to measure prevalence and incidence of recurrent acute respiratory infections; to define epidemiologic profile of the preschool children with acute respiratory infections; and to estimate association force between recurrent acute respiratory infections and known risk factors.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: Design: cross-sectional study.
UNIVERSE: 521 preschool child residents in Rubén Jaramillo Town. Sample: no randomized for convenience.
SELECTION CRITERIONS: a preschool child that goes to medical consult to the Communitarian Health Center from location during August of 2006-July of 2007.
VARIABLES: demographics, socioeconomics and sanitarians. Analysis: prevalence and incidence rates, ratios, proportions and odds ratios (OR) with 95% of confiance (p≤0,05).
SOFTWARE: Epi Info© version 3,3,2.
RESULTS: 521 preschool children. Acute respiratory infection prevalence 87,14 X 100 preschool. Recurrent acute respiratory infections prevalence 53,32 X 100 preschool children. Recurrent acute respiratory infections incidence 61,23 X 100 preschool children with acute respiratory infections. Epidemiologic profile: 45,4% females and 54,6% males; ages: 11,2% <1 year-old, 34,1% one year-old, 31,3% 2 years-old, 13,9% 3 years-old and 9,5% 4 years-old; crowding 74,4%; calcareous material housing 93,4%. Don't be find significant association with any studied factors (p>0,05).
CONCLUSIONS: The prevalence of single and recurrent acute respiratory infections is high, the socioeconomic and sanitarian condition seeming don't be influence in this fact. Be required wider studies, multi-centrals preferably, with inclusion of other variables as alimentation type and concomitant and previous diseases for better conclusions.
Key words: Acute respiratory infections. Recurrence. Preschool children.
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