[PDF] Top 20 Hispanic Children With Asthma: Morbidity

... nomic status, child’s health behaviors (self-report), child’s health behaviors (parent’s report), avoidance of asthma triggers, barriers.. to health care, knowledge of asthma, knowledge [r] ... See full document

... prior morbidity, including ⬎ 2 ED visits, any hospitalization, HC use, exacerbations, and school absenteeism, is signif- icantly related (P ⬍ ...to asthma severity (Table 2) and in those ⬎ 5 years of age ... See full document

... Because morbidity from asthma can manifest itself in different ways, we combined morbidity experiences from asthma into a summary ...children’s morbidity experiences, we dichotomized ... See full document

... and asthma morbidity, con- trolling for baseline morbidity, standard demo- graphic variables, study site, and all other psycho- social variables, produced somewhat different ... See full document

... increases asthma morbidity among chil- dren who are not known to be sensitive to aspirin or other nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs, these data suggest that compared with acetaminophen, ibuprofen may ... See full document

... child’s asthma symptoms is an important, inex- pensive, and readily accessible bedside and office tool that may aid in the detection of persistent symptoms and help direct ...classifying asthma severity by ... See full document

... inpatient asthma hospitalization on future (postdischarge) asthma ...inpatient asthma interventions, they used meta- analysis to conclude that inpatient QI efforts have limited impact on ... See full document

... childhood asthma outcomes. First, Puerto Rican children had the highest lifetime asthma and recent attack prevalence of all US racial/ethnic groups we ...measured asthma risk factors, in- ... See full document

... ethnicity, asthma severity, season, and calendar year (Table 3). For children with persistent asthma, the ratio of ICS to bronchodilator prescriptions increased from ...of asthma treat- ment ... See full document

... diagnosed asthma to maxi- mize the benefit of case ...definition, children who might have otherwise been lost to follow-up, have been nonadherent, or have been considered to have “grown out” of their ... See full document

... preventable morbidity and mortality (Murphy ...of asthma in schools, so that guidelines for educational interven- tions can be compiled for ...to asthma medications in schools, use of out-of-date ... See full document

... affects asthma morbidity through many path- ...increased asthma), children who live in disadvantaged neighbor- hoods and must stay indoors have higher rates of asthma morbidity ... See full document

... to asthma is unlikely to capture the complex multidimen- sional factors that contribute to the variations in asthma prevalence and morbidity ...childhood asthma is ... See full document

... childhood asthma is also becoming more ...among children with asthma, as well as with decreased lung function in general ...of asthma has been significantly associated with neighbor- hood ... See full document

... of asthma (“diagnosed or not”, “treated or not”) was investigated with respect to child’ s characteristics, clinical characteristics of asthma, co-morbidity, asthma management, environmental ... See full document

... panic children compared with NHW children had lower scores in partici- pation in social activities in the com- munity and at ...of Hispanic children compared with NHW children on ... See full document

... to asthma morbidity in children; environmental control practices aimed at reducing these exposures are an integral component of asthma ...reduce asthma symptoms and exacerbations are ... See full document

... Results. Morbidity measures indicated that there were an average of ...for asthma in the last 6 months, 1.6 6 2.2 hospitalizations for asthma in the last 12 months, and ...17.9 asthma- related ... See full document

... healthy children; consideration of a socio- demographically diverse population of children; and access to a range of questions that deal with not only race and medication use but also primary care con- ... See full document

... Race/ethnicity was classified into 5 categories: non- Hispanic white, non-Hispanic black, Hispanic, Non-His- panic mixed race, and other. The “other” category in- cludes American Indians, Asians, and ... See full document