Health-Related Quality of Life among School Children with Parasitic Infections: Findings from a National Cross-Sectional Survey in Côte d’Ivoire

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Hürlimann, Eveline ^a,b,c   Houngbedji, Clarisse A ^a,b,c,d   Yapi, Richard B ^a,b,c,e   Ndri, Prisca B ^c,d   Silué, Kigbafori D ^c,e   Soro, Gotianwa ^f   Kouamé, Ferdinand N ^f   Fürst, Thomas ^g   Utzinger, Jürg ^a,b   N’Goran, Eliézer K ^c,e   Raso, Giovanna ^a,b,c  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c CENTRE SUISSE DE RECHERCHES SCIENTIFIQUES EN CÔTE D'IVOIRE   (Côte d’Ivoire)

^d UNIVERSITÉ NANGUI ABROGOUA   (Côte d’Ivoire)

^e UNIVERSITÉ FÉLIX HOUPHOUËT BOIGNY   (Côte d’Ivoire)

^f Programme National de Santé Scolaire et Universitaire   (Côte d’Ivoire)

^g IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CHILD; CONCURRENT INFECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HELMINTHIASIS; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MORBIDITY; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITEMIA; PARASITOSIS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL POPULATION; SCHISTOSOMA HEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHOOL CHILD; SELF REPORT; SPLENOMEGALY; TRICHURIS TRICHIURA; URBAN POPULATION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WELLBEING; ANIMAL; COTE D'IVOIRE; PARASITIC DISEASES; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGY; STUDENT;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COTE D'IVOIRE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PARASITIC DISEASES; QUALITY OF LIFE; STUDENTS;

EID: 84928254971     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003287     Document Type: Article

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