Asthma Home Management in the Inner-City: What can the Children Teach us?

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Knowledge of asthma home management from the perspective of poor, minority children with asthma is limited.

Method

Convenience sampling methods were used to recruit families of low-income children who are frequently in the emergency department for uncontrolled asthma. Thirteen youths participated in focus groups designed to elicit reflections on asthma home management. Data were analyzed using grounded theory coding techniques.

Results

Participants (Mean age = 9.2 years) were African American (100%), enrolled in Medicaid (92.3%), averaged 1.4 (standard deviation = 0.7) emergency department visits over the prior 3 months, and resided in homes with at least 1 smoker (61.5%). Two themes reflecting multifaceted challenges to the development proper of self-manage

SUBMITTER: Bellin MH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6407130 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May - Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature