Banca de DEFESA: LUCIENE APARECIDA MUNIZ

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STUDENT : LUCIENE APARECIDA MUNIZ
DATE: 23/02/2023
TIME: 08:30
LOCAL: Videoconferência
TITLE:

CLINICAL, EPIDEMIOLOGICAL AND DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE OF TEENAGERS WITH COVID-19


KEY WORDS:
Adolescent, Health profile, SARS-CoV-2 infection, COVID-19

PAGES: 102
BIG AREA: Ciências da Saúde
AREA: Enfermagem
SUMMARY:
In December 2019, in China, in the city of Wuhan, the occurrence of several simultaneous cases
of pneumonia caused by the new coronavirus, called SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19,
was identified. The virus was highly contagious, spreading rapidly to other countries,
configuring a pandemic. Teenagers are just as likely to be infected as adults and the elderly.
And eventually they can progress to more serious situations with the need for hospitalization or
progress to death. Despite the rapid national and international scientific production on COVID-
19, several questions remain, with no effective consensus in the literature regarding the clinical,
epidemiological and demographic profile of infected adolescents. The proportion of
asymptomatic and symptomatic cases and prevalent symptoms are unclear, as are the
epidemiological indicators of health, prevalence and mortality, and severity factors. In this
context, it is imperative to analyze the occurrence of COVID-19 in adolescents, to better
understand how the disease affects this age group, with a view to bringing indicators to favor
the elaboration of public policies and interventions to cope with the new coronavirus in this
public, in addition to contributing to the current literature in the field of adolescent health. The
objective of this research is to analyze the clinical, epidemiological and demographic profile of
adolescents with COVID-19. This is an observational, cross-sectional, population-based
epidemiological study. Demographic and clinical data were collected regarding the notified
confirmed cases of COVID-19 and the unconfirmed cases in the e-SUS Notifica system from
March 15, 2020 to March 31, 2022. Municipal Health Department of a municipality in the
central-west region of Minas Gerais, being extracted and stored in Microsoft Excel 2016
spreadsheets. Subsequently, they were exported to the Statistical Package for Social Sciences
(SPSS) version 20. the Kolmogorov-Smirnov normality test. Descriptive and analytical
statistical techniques were used. To compare proportions, Pearson's chi-square test or Fisher's
exact test were used. Bivariate analysis was performed and all variables with p value ≤ 0.20
were used in the final model. Logistic regression analysis was performed, with the model's
goodness of fit being verified by Hosmer-Lemeshow tests and residual analysis. The
significance level adopted was p<0.05%. Results: The prevalence of COVID-19 among
adolescents was 14.4 per 100 reported cases. Adolescents who had symptoms of headache
(OR=1.4; 95%CI=1.2-1.6), fever (OR=1.2; 95%CI=1.1-1.4) and olfactory disturbances
(OR=2.3; 95%CI=1.9-2.7), had a greater chance of being diagnosed with COVID-19. As for
sore throat (OR=0.7; 95%CI=0.67-0.8) and runny nose (OR=0.8; 95%CI=0.7-0.9), there was a
lower chance of diagnosis of COVID-19. Conclusion: This investigation has the potential to
bring indicators to favor the elaboration of public policies and interventions to face the new
coronavirus, in addition to contributing to the current literature in the field of adolescent health.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1680498 - MARCIA CHRISTINA CAETANO ROMANO
Interna - 1475791 - PATRICIA PINTO BRAGA
Externo à Instituição - WENDELL COSTA BILA - UEMG
Notícia cadastrada em: 14/02/2023 12:26
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