Health-related quality of life of the parents of children hospitalized due to acute rotavirus infection: a cross-sectional study in Latvia

Laizane, Gunta; Kivite, Anda; Stars, Inese; Cikovska, Marita; Grope, Ilze; Gardovska, Dace

doi:10.1186/s12887-018-1086-y

Table 6 Economic burden (days off work) of the disease stratified by the associated factors (n = 527^a)

Factor	None		At least one		Not employed		p
Factor	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
Sociodemographic factors
Gender
Female	81	31.6	148	57.8	27	10.5	0.49
Male	92	34.5	141	52.8	34	12.7	0.49
Age
≤ 12 months	67	43.8	61	39.9	25	16.3	0.01
13–24 months	56	33.3	96	57.1	16	9.5
25–36 months	22	24.7	57	64.0	10	11.2
37+ months	28	25.0	74	66.1	10	8.9
Age of the mother
≤ 24 years	17	31.5	28	51.9	9	16.7	0.84
25–34 years	110	32.9	188	56.3	36	10.8
35–44 years	41	32.8	69	55.2	15	12.0
45+ years	4	50.0	3	37.5	1	12.5
Age of the father
≤ 24 years	11	42.3	11	42.3	4	15.4	0.48
25–34 years	95	33.9	152	54.3	33	11.8
35–44 years	54	33.1	92	56.4	17	10.4
45+ years	7	18.9	25	67.6	5	13.5
Education of the mother
Primary	14	48.3	12	41.4	3	10.3	0.02
Secondary / vocational	73	39.0	85	45.5	29	15.5
Higher	85	28.1	188	62.3	29	9.6
Education of the father
Primary	12	35.3	16	47.1	6	17.6	0.41
Secondary / vocational	82	33.6	140	57.4	22	9.0
Higher	71	32.1	120	54.3	30	13.6
Family structure
Both parents	159	32.6	271	55.5	58	11.9	0.64
Single parent	11	39.3	15	53.6	2	7.1	0.64
Place of residence
Urban	145	32.6	245	55.1	55	12.4	0.53
Rural	23	34.8	38	57.6	5	7.6	0.53
Objective evaluation of the health status
Vomiting (times per 24 h)
0	3	1000.	0	0	0	0	0.28
1	32	33.3	50	52.1	14	14.6
2	78	34.7	123	54.7	24	10.7
3	52	31.1	95	56.9	20	12.0
Diarrhea (times per 24 h)
1	23	36.5	33	52.4	7	11.1	0.95
2	40	32.5	66	53.7	17	13.8
3	104	33.5	170	54.8	36	11.6
Severity of episodes (Vesikari)
Moderate	14	40.0	17	48.6	4	11.4	0.70
Severe / very severe	152	33.0	252	54.8	56	12.2	0.70
Subjective evaluation of the health status
Severity of diarrhea
Not at all / mild	13	39.4	17	51.5	3	9.1	0.43
Moderate	31	40.8	39	51.3	6	7.9
Severe / very severe	128	31.2	232	56.6	50	12.2
Severity of vomiting
Not at all / mild	55	38.7	71	50.0	16	11.3	0.26
Moderate	27	31.0	46	52.9	14	16.1
Severe / very severe	90	30.9	171	58.8	30	10.3
Severity of fever
Not at all / mild	54	38.0	70	49.3	18	12.7	0.19
Moderate	27	24.8	69	63.3	13	11.9
Severe / very severe	90	33.7	150	56.2	27	10.1
Severity of abdominal pain
Not at all / mild	61	37.4	84	51.5	18	11.0	0.12
Moderate	51	38.3	71	53.4	11	8.3
Severe / very severe	57	27.1	124	59.0	29	13.8
Severity of insufficient fluid intake
Not at all / mild	32	43.8	28	38.4	13	17.8	0.02
Moderate	30	35.7	43	51.2	11	13.1
Severe / very severe	110	30.4	216	59.7	36	9.9
Severity of loss of appetite
Not at all / mild	39	44.3	39	44.3	10	11.4	0.06
Moderate	39	36.8	54	50.9	13	12.3
Severe / very severe	93	29.0	192	59.8	36	11.2
Severity of apathy
Not at all / mild	33	39.8	39	47.0	11	13.3	0.20
Moderate	34	32.4	55	52.4	16	15.2
Severe / very severe	99	30.7	192	59.4	32	9.9
Severity of inflamed bottom
Not at all / mild	81	28.7	174	61.7	27	9.6	0.03
Moderate	37	42.5	38	43.7	12	13.8
Severe / very severe	53	36.3	74	50.7	19	13.0
Severity of interrupted sleep mode
Not at all / mild	89	34.4	148	57.1	22	8.5	0.33
Moderate	37	30.6	66	54.5	18	14.9
Severe / very severe	45	33.1	72	52.9	19	14.0
Severity of tearfulness
Not at all / mild	53	34.9	80	52.6	19	12.5	0.92
Moderate	47	30.7	88	57.5	18	11.8
Severe / very severe	71	33.5	118	55.7	23	10.8
Severity of anxiety / irritability
Not at all / mild	69	31.7	121	55.5	28	12.8	0.27
Moderate	34	28.1	76	62.8	11	9.1
Severe / very severe	67	38.1	90	51.1	19	10.8

^aThe sum of the stratified numbers can differ according to the parameters due to missing values

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