Childhood asthma is a chronic health condition that is one of the leading causes of hospitalizations and missed school days for children. It also affects the lives of both asthmatic children and their families

Forbis, Shalini

Pascoe, John M.

Saunders, Jessica L.

Spears, William

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Wright State University CORE Scholar Population and Public Health Sciences Faculty Publications Population and Public Health Sciences 5-2005 Parents' Perception of their Children's Asthma, 2002-2008: A Community-Based Study John M. Pascoe Wright State University, john.pascoe@wright.edu William Spears Wright State University, william.spears@wright.edu Shalini Forbis Wright State University, shalini.forbis@wright.edu Jessica L. Saunders Wright State University, jessica.saunders@wright.edu Follow this and additional works at: https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/comhth  Part of the Community Health Commons, and the Community Health and Preventive Medicine Commons Repository Citation Pascoe, J. M., Spears, W., Forbis, S., & Saunders, J. L. (2005). Parents' Perception of their Children's Asthma, 2002-2008: A Community-Based Study. . https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/comhth/281 This Conference Proceeding is brought to you for free and open access by the Population and Public Health Sciences at CORE Scholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in Population and Public Health Sciences Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of CORE Scholar. For more information, please contact library-corescholar@wright.edu. Title: PARENTS  PERCEPTION OF THEIR CHILDREN S ASTHMA, 2002‐2008: A COMMUNITY‐BASED STUDY John Pascoe, MD1, William Spears, PhD2, Shalini Forbis, MD1 and Jessica Saunders, MPA3. 1Pediatrics, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, United States; 2Center for Healthy Communities, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, United States and 3Marketing/Communications, Children's Medical Center of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio, United States.   Background: Childhood asthma is a chronic health condition that is one of the leading causes of hospitalizations and missed school days for children. It also affects the lives of both asthmatic children and their families.   Objective: To examine parents  perception of the impact of their children s asthma on several aspects of their lives by interviewing repeated random samples of parents from the Miami Valley of Ohio in 2002,2005 and 2008.   Design/Methods: Parents of children less than 15 years were contacted in 2002, 2005 and 2008 using random‐digit dialing to ascertain their perception of the health of their children as well as children in their communities. 1900 parents (650/650/600) were interviewed during the three data collection efforts. In addition to the study parents, about 230 parents refused to be interviewed for each of the three telephone surveys.   Results: Almost three quarters (71%) of respondents were mothers or female guardians, 95% had at least a high school education, 85% were Euro‐American, the majority (59%) had a school‐aged child at home, and only 6% had income below the federal poverty level. Overall, for the three samples, asthmatic children s parents were more likely to have a postive depression screen compared to non‐asthmatic children s parents(24% vs 16%, p=0.003). The prevalence of parents  report of childhood asthma in index children was 10.2% to 11.5% (p=0.45). Parents from the 2008 survey reported fewer visits to the Emergency Department for their children s asthma (8.6% vs 20.1%, p=0.09) and fewer urgent care clinics visits (1.1+/‐.1 vs 1.8+/‐.9, p=0.07) compared to earlier surveys. In addition, children were less likely to miss school due to their asthma symptoms during the past 12 months in 2008 compared to 2005(p=0.02).   Conclusions: The results from this compilation of three cross sectional random samples (collected in 2002/2005/2008) of parents with telephones and at least one child less than 15 years old living at home in the Miami Valley of Ohio suggest that this area of the nation has a stable prevalence of childhood asthma that is comparable to the national prevalence, almost one quarter of parents of asthmatic children have a positive depression screen and the local community/public health efforts that emphasize the prevention of childhood asthma symptoms may be having a positive effect, given the reported decrease in Emergency Department/Urgent Care visits and fewer days missed in school. 

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