Educational Attainment and Employment Status of Adults Living With Congenital Heart Disease in the United States, CH STRONG 2016-2019.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Our objective was to characterize the education and employment history of young adults with congenital heart defects (CHD) living in the United States.

Methods

The 2016-2019 Congenital Heart Survey To Recognize Outcomes, Needs, and well-beinG collected data from young adults (ages 19-38) with CHD identified from active birth defect in Arkansas, Arizona, and Atlanta, Georgia. Educational attainment, employment history, and special education between kindergarten and 12th grade were self-/proxy-reported. Respondent percentages were standardized to the eligible population by CHD severity, birth year, site, sex, and maternal race/ethnicity and compared by CHD severity using p values from Z-scores. Log-binomial prevalence ratios (aPRs) assessed associations between resp

SUBMITTER: Downing KF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12042078 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature