Immunocompromised Children and Young Patients Living with Pets: Gaps in Knowledge to Avoid Zoonosis

Table 3

Compliance with veterinary recommendations in dog and cat owners who completed the survey according to the patient’s medical condition, age, treatments received, and type of pet.

Degrees of compliance with recommendations	Good compliance	Average compliance	Poor compliance	p
Type of medical conditions
SOT	57% (38/67)	19% (13/67)	24% (16/67)	0.16
HSCT	46% (12/26)	35% (9/26)	19% (5/26)
IEI	23% (3/13)	38% (5/13)	38% (5/13)
Patient’s age
≤12 years	50% (23/46)	26% (12/46)	24% (11/46)	0.99
>12 years	50% (23/46)	25% (15/60)	25% (15/60)
Patients under immunosuppressive therapy
Yes	55% (37/67)	21% (14/67)	24% (16/67)	0.42
No	47% (14/30)	33% (10/30)	20% (6/30)
Patients receiving IRT and/or antibiotic prophylaxis
Yes	40% (6/15)	27% (4/15)	33% (5/15)	0.63
No	52% (47/91)	25% (23/91)	23% (21/91)
Types of pet
Dog	55% (41/75)	25% (19/75)	20% (15/75)	0.5
Cat	37% (7/19)	26% (5/19)	37% (7/19)
Dog and cat	42% (5/12)	25% (3/12)	33% (4/12)
Total	50% (53/106)	25% (27/106)	25% (26/106)

Adequate compliance with veterinary recommendations was considered if the owners followed all the following recommendations: visiting the veterinarian at least once a year, complying with the vaccination schedule (core-vaccines), avoiding feeding the pet with unprocessed or raw food, and deworming the animal at least every 3 months. According to the number of measures with adequate compliance, we considered the following: (i) Good compliance: adequate compliance with the 4 items(ii) Average compliance: noncompliance in at least one of the items(iii) Poor compliance: noncompliance in at least two of the items For the statistical analysis, the dependent variable was the “compliance with the measures” and the independent variables were age, underlying condition, treatments received, and type of pet (dog, cat, or both).