Improving Care of Inner-City Children with Poorly Controlled Asthma: What Mothers Want You to Know.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Low-income caregiver perspectives on asthma management are understudied but may illuminate strategies to improve care delivery and child outcomes.

Method

Purposive sampling methods were used to recruit 15 caregivers of children with frequent asthma emergency department visits. Interviews explored how poverty and stress affect asthma management. Grounded theory coding techniques were used to analyze the data.

Results

Participants were the biological mother (100%) and were poor (75% had mean annual income ≤ $30,000). Their children (mean age = 6.9 years) were African American (100%), enrolled in Medicaid (100%), and averaged 1.5 emergency department visits over the prior 3 months. Four themes emerged: (a) Deplorable Housing Conditions, (b) Allies and Advers

SUBMITTER: Bellin MH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6026044 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul - Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature