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Volume 29, Number 12—December 2023
Research

Cost of Acute and Sequelae Care for Japanese Encephalitis Patients, Bangladesh, 2011–2021

Rebeca SultanaComments to Author , Rose Slavkovsky, Md. Redowan Ullah, Zareen Tasnim, Sharmin Sultana, Shifat Khan, Tahmina Shirin, Shamsul Haque, Md. Tanvir Hossen, Md. Monjurul Islam, Jesmin Ara Khanom, Abrarul Haque, Arifa Nazneen, Nadia Ali Rimi, Kamal Hossain, Md. Tanbirul Islam, Shariful Hasan, Md. Shameem Yazdany, Md. Shamim Ahsan, Kamran Mehedi, Anthony A. Marfin, G. William Letson, Clint Pecenka, and An Le Thanh Nguyen
Author affiliations: icddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh (R. Sultana, M.R. Ullah, Z. Tasnim, S. Khan, A. Haque, A. Nazneen, N.A. Rimi, K. Hossain); PATH, Seattle, Washington, USA (R. Slavkovsky, A.A. Marfin, G.W. Letson, C. Pecenka); Institute of Epidemiology Diseases Control and Research, Dhaka (S. Sultana, T. Shirin); Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health, Dhaka (M.S. Haque, M.T. Hossen, M.M. Islam, J.A. Khanom); World Health Organization, Dhaka (M.T. Islam); Rangpur Medical College Hospital, Rangpur, Bangladesh (S. Hasan); Rajshahi Medical College Hospital, Rajshahi, Bangladesh (M.S. Yazdany); Chattogram Medical College Hospital, Chittagong, Bangladesh (M.S. Ahsan); PATH, Dhaka (K. Mehedi); PATH, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (A.L.T. Nguyen)

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Table 6

Effects of on acute care, initial sequelae, and long-term sequelae of Japanese encephalitis patients on family’s overall well-being, Bangladesh, November 2011–December 2021

Level of effect Acute, no. (%) Initial sequelae, no. (%) Long-term sequelae, no. (%)
Expenses associated with the disease
None 1 (2) 1 (2) 0
  Little 3 (5) 4 (6) 2 (2)
  Moderate 7 (13) 6 (9) 10 (11)
  Extreme
44 (80)
54 (83)
78 (87)
Income of members in the household 3 (5) 5 (8) 4 (4)
  Little 4 (7) 4 (6) 4 (4)
  Moderate 8 (15) 13 (20) 12 (13)
  Extreme
40 (73)
43 (66)
70 (78)
Missed school because of to illness*
  Patient’s missed school (d missed) 20 (80) 16 (20) 15 (22)
  caregivers' missed school (d missed) 6 (116) 1 (1) 4 (10)
  Total missed school, no. (d missed) 25 (92) 17 (19) 17 (21)
  None 25 (45) 32 (49) 38 (42)
  Little 1 (2) 1 (2) 6 (7)
  Moderate 2 (4) 4 (6) 8 (9)
  Extreme
27 (49)
28 (43)
38 (42)
Stress and fear associated with the disease
  None 1 (2) 0 3 (3)
  Little 1 (2) 2 (3) 5 (6)
  Moderate 5 (9) 8 (12) 11 (12)
  Extreme 48 (87) 55 (85) 71 (79)

*Values are no. (%) patients except as indicated. Missed school days were reported as total for acute care patients and monthly for sequelae patients.

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