[Logistic regression analysis of the influence of residential environment, residential hygiene and life style on the incidence and duration of acute respiratory disease in small children].
659 children aged between 1 and 2 years were examined in respect of the influence of the children's-facility, residential environment, residential hygiene, and way of life, as well as in respect of the influence of selected sociological factors on the number and duration of acute respiratory diseases (ARD). The evaluation of the results by using logistical regressions analysis came--among other things--to following factors, that correlated with a risen morbidity, respectively an extended duration of the illness (> 3 diseases in 6 months; > 20 days in 6 months). Apartments with wet walls, dark and too noisy apartments, children's-rooms with two outside walls, single window pane, outside-wall-gas-heaters, room-air-humidity too low, space for children in day-nurseries < 4 sqm, no carrying out of hardening-steps for the children, wind-influence to the open space of the children's-facility too strong, and shift-working by the mother.
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Klinikum der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Institut für Allgemeine Krankenhaus- und Umwelthygiene.
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D000208:Acute Disease; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D006920:Hygiene; D015994:Incidence; D007223:Infant; D008019:Life Style; D016015:Logistic Models; D008423:Maternal Age; D009035:Mothers; D009724:Nurseries, Infant; D016017:Odds Ratio; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D012140:Respiratory Tract Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology*; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013997:Time Factors; D014691:Ventilation