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Factors Associated with Acute Health Care Use in Children and Adolescents with Asthma
- Source :
- Comprehensive child and adolescent nursing. 44(2)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Asthma is a leading cause of acute health care use (AHCU) as defined by hospitalization and emergency department visits (ED). Little was known about factors associated with asthma-related AHCU. This study aimed to identify factors determining AHCU in children and adolescents with asthma. A descriptive study was conducted among children with mild to severe asthma referred to the pediatric outpatient clinic of "Farhat Hached" University Hospital of Sousse (Tunisia) over a period of three months (April-June 2018). We collected data regarding clinical information, the number of hospitalizations and ED visits related to asthma in the past 12 months, asthma management behaviors, and quality of life of children. Multivariable logistic regression was performed using SPSS (20.0). A total of 90 children have participated in the study. The percentage of children aged 7 to 11 years was higher than the percentage of adolescents aged 12 to 17 years (67.8%; 32.2%, respectively). The final logistic regression model demonstrated that asthma severity and inhaler technique increased the odds of AHCU (OR a = 4.6; 95% CI: 1.1-18.1
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Adolescent
business.industry
Emergency department
medicine.disease
Pediatrics
humanities
Asthma
respiratory tract diseases
Hospitalization
immune system diseases
Health care
Emergency medicine
medicine
Quality of Life
Humans
business
Child
Emergency Service, Hospital
Delivery of Health Care
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 24694207
- Volume :
- 44
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Comprehensive child and adolescent nursing
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c39df8b2f1cd35fcbaf36061532024e7