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. 2015 Jul 8;72(8):3033–3056. doi: 10.1007/s11227-015-1474-0

Table 2.

Health attributes of user for MERS-CoV

S. no. Attributes Description
(a) Personal attributes
1. Name Name of user
2. Address Permanent address of user
3. Telephone numbers Home/mobile telephone number
4. Age Age in years of user
5. Sex Male or female (M/F)
6. Occupation Occupation of user
7. GPS Geographic location of house and work place of user
8. Relatives Names and mobile numbers of user’s close relatives
S. no. Attributes Output Description
(b) MERS-CoV related attributes
1. Shortness of breath Yes/no Whether a user has shortness of breath symptom
2. Cough Yes/no Whether a user has cough symptom
3. Fever Integer Body temperature in C
4. Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) Yes/no Whether a user has ARDS
5. Consumptive coagulopathy Yes/no Whether a user has consumptive coagulopathy symptom
6. Food exposure Yes/no Whether a user consumed unprocessed, raw food, blood products, drinks, and used smoking apparatus such as hookah
7. Animal exposure Yes/no Whether a user has exposure to animals (e.g., pets, rats, camels, etc), animal products
8. Infected human exposure Yes/no Whether a user has contact with individuals with MERS-CoV symptoms
9. Risk area exposure Yes/no Whether a user lives or works in risk area like Saudi Arabia