Millennium COVID-19 Care Center, St. Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Pan Afr Med J. 2022 Jan 7;41:16. doi: 10.11604/pamj.2022.41.16.29414. eCollection 2022.
considering the number of people affected and the burden to the health care system due to the coronavirus pandemic, there is still a gap in understanding the disease better leaving a space for new evidence to be filled by researchers. This scarcity of evidence is observed especially among children with the virus. Therefore, this study aimed to assess the characteristics and outcome profile of children with COVID-19 admitted to Millennium COVID-19 Care Center in Ethiopia.
a prospective cohort study was conducted among 90 children with COVID-19 who were admitted from June 23 to September 17, 2020. Data were summarized using frequency tables, mean ± standard deviation or median with inter quartile range values. A chi-square test/Fischer´s exact test was used to compare disease severity between groups.
the median age of the participants was 15 years and 57 were females. The most common reported route of disease transmission was through close contact with a diagnosed person (41/90). Only three had a history of pre-existing comorbid illness. One-third (31/90) had one or more symptoms at diagnosis, the most common being cough (20/90). Among the 90 patients, 59 were asymptomatic, 14 had mild disease and the rest 17 had moderate disease. Based on the chi-square/Fischer´s exact test result, no statistically significant difference was observed between the age groups and sex.
pediatric patients seemed to have a milder disease presentation and a favorable outcome compared to other countries report and also the adult pattern observed in our country.
考虑到冠状病毒大流行对受影响人数和医疗保健系统的负担，人们对该病的了解仍存在差距，为研究人员提供了新的证据填补空间。在患有该病毒的儿童中，这种证据的缺乏尤为明显。因此，本研究旨在评估在埃塞俄比亚千禧年 COVID-19 护理中心住院的 COVID-19 患儿的特征和预后情况。
在 2020 年 6 月 23 日至 9 月 17 日期间，对 90 名 COVID-19 患儿进行了前瞻性队列研究。使用频数表、平均值±标准差或中位数和四分位间距值对数据进行总结。使用卡方检验/Fisher 确切检验比较组间疾病严重程度。
参与者的中位年龄为 15 岁，57 人为女性。报告的最常见疾病传播途径是与确诊患者密切接触（41/90）。仅有 3 人有既往合并症病史。三分之一（31/90）在诊断时有一个或多个症状，最常见的是咳嗽（20/90）。在 90 例患者中，59 例为无症状，14 例为轻症，其余 17 例为中症。基于卡方/Fisher 确切检验结果，年龄组和性别之间无统计学差异。
与其他国家的报告以及我们国家观察到的成人模式相比，儿科患者的疾病表现似乎较轻，预后较好。
