Compliance with a multilayered nonpharmaceutical intervention in an urban elementary school setting.

摘要: Objectives The purpose of this study was to determine what extent school-aged children can learn hygiene-based nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) and persist in these behavioral changes over the duration an influenza season. If be done successfully, it may a preferable pandemic mitigation strategy much more disruptive strategies such as whole-scale school closure. Methods Pittsburgh Influenza Prevention Project (PIPP) is prospective, controlled, randomized trial effectiveness suite NPIs controlling related illnesses elementary schools City Pittsburgh. During 2007-08 year, project measured adoption by students five through surveys home-room teachers before, during, after Results showed highly statistically significant improvement students' daily practice nearly all NPIs, including hand washing sanitizer use covering coughs sneezes. Conclusions provides evidence that learn, implement, behaviors multilayered typical flu These results will useful public health policy makers practitioners considering methods infectious disease prevention school-based settings.