Characteristics Relevant To Respiratory Health Among African Americans Attending Church-based Asthma Programs in Atlanta
| Autor: | Kellie Esinhart, Drew A. Harris, Timothy L. McMurry, LeRoy Graham, W. Gerald Teague |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Spirometry medicine.medical_specialty MEDLINE Inhaled corticosteroids immune system diseases medicine Humans Obesity Child Respiratory health Asthma biology medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Church based biology.organism_classification medicine.disease respiratory tract diseases Black or African American Atlanta Family medicine business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. 31:623-634 |
| ISSN: | 1548-6869 |
| DOI: | 10.1353/hpu.2020.0049 |
| Popis: | Background Not One More Life (NOML), a health and faith partnership, aims to engage African Americans at risk for asthma morbidity into community-partnered asthma programs. Methods Not One More Life programs consisted of interactive presentations, a questionnaire, and spirometry. Results 4,522 individuals attended NOML programs at 136 Atlanta churches over nine years. Over 90% of attendees were African American. Attendees with asthma had high rates of obesity (9.4% of children, 47.9% of adults) and airflow obstruction (34.6% of children, 17.2%, of adults). Over 20% of attendees with asthma reported past hospitalization for asthma. Among those with a history of hospitalizations for asthma, just 17.6% reported treatment with inhaled corticosteroids Conclusion. Not One More Life program attendees with asthma report considerable morbidity including exceptionally high rates of asthma hospitalizations. Participants have multiple remediable characteristics associated with poorly controlled asthma, including medication undertreatment and obesity. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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