The Effect of Violence on Asthma: Are Our Children Facing a Double-edged Sword?
The Effect of Violence on Asthma: Are Our Children Facing a Double-edged Sword?
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DOI：
10.1007/s10900-008-9113-9
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发表时间：
2008-12-01
影响因子：
5.9
通讯作者：
Butz, Arlene
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作者：
Walker, Jennifer;Lewis-Land, Cassia;Butz, Arlene
Low income, urban children with asthma are experiencing community violence that may contribute to asthma morbidity. The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between caregiver report of feeling unsafe, seeing community violence or child seeing community violence and asthma morbidity and health care utilization. Two hundred thirty-one caregivers of children with asthma enrolled in an asthma,education, intervention reported perceptions of safety and violence exposure in six months and frequency of child asthma symptoms, emergency department (ED), primary care (PCP) visits and hospitalizations over 12 months. Children were primarily male (93%), black (61%), and reported income
