Factors Associated with Asthma Self-Management in African American Adolescents.

Autor: Crowder SJ; Community and Health Systems Department, Indiana University School of Nursing, Indianapolis, IN. Electronic address: sjcrowde@iu.edu., Hanna KM; Carol M. Wilson Endowed Chair in Nursing, Nebraska Medical Center College of Nursing, Omaha, NE., Carpenter JS; Department of Science of Nursing Care, Indiana University School of Nursing, Indianapolis, IN., Broome ME; Duke University School of Nursing, Durham, NC.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of pediatric nursing [J Pediatr Nurs] 2015 Nov-Dec; Vol. 30 (6), pp. e35-43. Date of Electronic Publication: 2015 Apr 28.
DOI: 10.1016/j.pedn.2015.03.005
Abstrakt: Few studies have focused on asthma self-management in African American adolescents, a group with high rates of the disease. This study examined factors associated with asthma self-management in 133 African Americans aged 14-16 years including gender, asthma impairment, prior asthma education, cognitive and emotional illness representations. Twenty-five percent of the variance in asthma self-management was explained by having attended an asthma education program, perceiving more asthma consequences (illness consequences), and reporting greater understanding of asthma as an illness (illness coherence). Findings suggest that these variables may be important targets of interventions to improve asthma self-management in African American middle adolescents.
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