Fever Impacts on Urban Mobility in Iquitos Peru

Data from a study by T. Alex Perkins explores the impact of fever on human mobility patterns in Iquitos, Peru. The research compares mobility metrics between febrile and afebrile individuals using retrospective interview data. It was last updated in June 2020.

Use Cases

• Compare time spent at home between febrile and afebrile individuals to model disease-related behavioral changes.
• Analyze the number of locations visited by dengue-positive and dengue-negative participants to assess pathogen-specific mobility impacts.
• Model the distance of visited locations from home to understand fever's effect on travel radius.
• Investigate time allocation at different location types across study groups to characterize activity space changes.

Strengths

• Study design includes a control group of afebrile individuals for comparative analysis.
• Data collection used retrospective, semi-structured interviews to quantify multiple aspects of mobility.
• Research focuses on a specific, understudied factor (fever) in pathogen transmission dynamics.
• Analysis employed statistical model comparison via likelihood ratio tests to identify significant differences.

Limitations

• Sample size and number of data rows are unknown, limiting assessment of statistical power.
• Relies on self-reported, retrospective mobility data which may be subject to recall bias.
• Geographic scope is limited to a single city (Iquitos, Peru), reducing generalizability.

Provenance

Source

T. Alex Perkins via Dryad.

Collection Method

Retrospective, semi-structured interviews quantifying mobility over a two-week period prior to interview.

Time Range

Covers a two-week period prior to each interview; specific study dates unknown.

Freshness

Last updated in 2020.

Geography

Iquitos, Peru.