Selbst berichtete Infektionen in der NAKO Gesundheitsstudie – Einordnung in die gegenwärtige Forschungslandschaft
Creators: name: Hassenstein, Max J.
name: Aarabi, Ghazal
name: Ahnert, Peter
name: Becher, Heiko
name: Franzke, Claus-Werner
name: Fricke, Julia
name: Krause, Gérard
name: Glöckner, Stephan
name: Gottschick, Cornelia
name: Karch, André
name: Kemmling, Yvonne
name: Kerrinnes, Tobias
name: Lange, Berit
name: Mikolajczyk, Rafael
name: Nieters, Alexandra
name: Ott, Jördis J.
name: Ahrens, Wolfgang
name: Berger, Klaus
name: Meinke-Franze, Claudia
name: Gastell, Sylvia
name: Günther, Kathrin
name: Greiser, Karin Halina
name: Holleczek, Bernd
name: Horn, Johannes
name: Jaeschke, Lina
name: Jagodzinski, Annika
name: Jansen, Lina
name: Jochem, Carmen
name: Jöckel, Karl-Heinz
name: Kaaks, Rudolf
name: Krist, Lilian
name: Kuß, Oliver
name: Langer, Susan
name: Legath, Nicole
name: Leitzmann, Michael
name: Lieb, Wolfgang
name: Loeffler, Markus
name: Mangold, Nina
name: Michels, Karin B.
name: Meisinger, Christa
name: Obi, Nadia
name: Pischon, Tobias
name: Schikowski, Tamara
name: Schipf, Sabine
name: Schulze, Matthias B.
name: Stang, Andreas
name: Waniek, Sabina
name: Wirkner, Kerstin
name: Willich, Stefan N.
name: Castell, Stefanie
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: URINARY-TRACT-INFECTION; HERPES-ZOSTER; DISEASE BURDEN; GLOBAL BURDEN; HEPATITIS-B; HEALTH; RISK; QUESTIONNAIRE; PREVALENCE; PNEUMONIA; Infectious diseases; Infectious disease epidemiology; German National Cohort (GNC); Cohort study; Communicable diseases; Epidemiology
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Background Infectious diseases continue to play an important role for disease perception, health-economic considerations and public health in Germany. In recent years, infectious diseases have been linked to the development of non-communicable diseases. Analyses of the German National Cohort (GNC) may provide deeper insights into this issue and pave the way for new targeted approaches in disease prevention. Objectives The aim was to describe the tools used to assess infectious diseases and to present initial data on infectious disease frequencies, as well as to relate the GNC assessment tools to data collection methods in other studies in Germany. Methods As part of the baseline examination, questions regarding infectious diseases were administered using both an interview and a self-administered touchscreen questionnaire. Data from the initial 101,787 GNC participants were analysed. Results In the interview, 0.2% (HIV/AIDS) to 8.6% (shingles) of respondents reported ever having a medical diagnosis of shingles, postherpetic neuralgia (in cases where shingles was reported), hepatitis B/C, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis or sepsis if treated in hospital. In the questionnaire, 12% (cystitis) to 81% (upper respiratory tract infections) of respondents reported having experienced at least one occurrence of upper or lower respiratory tract infections, gastrointestinal infections, cystitis or fever within the past 12 months. Outlook The cross-sectional analyses of data and tools presented here - for example on determinants of susceptibility to self-reported infections - can be anticipated from the year 2021 onward. Beyond that, more extensive research into infectious disease epidemiology will follow, particularly once analyses of GNC biological materials have been performed.