Family Caregiver Marginalization is Associated With Decreased Primary and Subspecialty Asthma Care in Head Start Children.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Urban minority children are at risk for poor asthma outcomes and might not receive appropriate primary or subspecialty care. We hypothesized that preschool children with asthma whose caregivers reported more barriers to care would be less likely to have seen their primary care provider (PCP) or an asthma subspecialist and more likely to have had a recent emergency department (ED) visit for asthma.

Methods

The Barriers to Care Questionnaire (BCQ) is used to measure expectations, knowledge, marginalization, pragmatics, and skills. We assessed asthma control using the Test for Respiratory and Asthma Control in Kids and these outcomes: PCP visits for asthma in the past 6 months, subspecialty care (allergist or pulmonologist) in the past 2 years, and ED visits in the p

SUBMITTER: Sadreameli SC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6215521 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov - Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature