Measles Complications in children at The Vietnam National Children’s Hospital 2019 and some related factors

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Objectives: To identify the rate of measles complications at Vietnam National Children’s
Hospital in 2019 and a number of related factors.
Subjects and methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study conducted on 719 children
under 16 year old who were suffered from measles treated at the hospital from 01/01/2019 to
31/12/2019. Data on age, gender, disease onset, medical history, measles vaccination, clinical
and paraclinical character were collected from their medical records. Data analysis was run
by SPSS 16.0. Results: Complications were defined on 82.48% patients. The most common
complication is pneumonia (72.46%), followed by diarrhea (29.35%), otitis media (6.12%),
croup (1.67%)... The complication rate was inverse to the patient age and seen more in patients
with recent hospitalization history. The unvaccinated group has a complication rate higher than
the vaccinated one (85.96% vs 53.13%). Conclusions: The measles complication rate at Vietnam
National Children’s Hospital is very high, especially with pneumonia. The factors associated to
the complications are age, recent hospitalization and measels vaccinated history.