Paediatric Contacts of Adult COVID-19 Patients: Clinical Parameters, Risk Factors, and Outcome

Table 1

Characteristics of the adult index cases with COVID-19.

Characteristics	Number (%) of cases		value^1
Gender			0.001
Male	67
Female	33
Socioeconomic status			≤0.001
Poor (<Rs20,000/month)	1
Lower middle class (Rs20,000-50,000/month)	47
Upper middle class (Rs50,000-100000/month)	42
Upper class (>Rs100000/month)	10
Residence
Islamabad	65
Rawalpindi area	21
Other	14
Characteristics according to gender
Outcome	Males	Females
Discharged from hospital, n (%)	57 (85%)	29 (88%)	ns
Expired, (%)	10 (15%)	4 (12%)
Number of contacts number of index cases per contact (total number of contacts)	(0)	(0)
	(18)	(5)
	(30)	(8)
	(12)	(12)
	(16)	(8)
		(20)
		(8)
Number of contacts per index case	1.13	1.84	0.03

: number; ns: not significant. ¹Chi-square tests for categorical variables, independent sample -test for numerical variables. The value indicates significant difference with respect to gender and socioeconomic status of the adult index cases. In the lower section, the value indicates difference between male and female index cases with respect to mortality, and number of contacts per index case.