title: Awareness of and compliance with air pollution advisories: a comparison of parents of asthmatics with other parents.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine parents' awareness of and compliance with air pollution advisories, and to compare the awareness and compliance of parents' of asthmatics to that of other parents.
  
  
  METHODS
  Responses of 240 parents surveyed at pediatric clinic visits were compared.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A total of 88% of parents were aware of air pollution advisories; 71% reduced pollution and 55% restricted children's play "sometimes" because of advisories. However, only 7% complied with more than one third of the advisories issued. More parents of asthmatics reported awareness of alerts (p = 0.002), reducing pollution (p = 0.005), or restricting play "sometimes" in response to advisories (p = 0.007).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Most parents report awareness of and some compliance with air pollution advisories. Parents of asthmatics are more aware and somewhat more compliant than other parents.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, USA. marc.mcdermott@umassmed.edu
authors.forename: Marc
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: McDermott
authors.forename: Rajendu
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Srivastava
authors.forename: Sarah
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Croskell
mesh_terms: D000393:Air Pollutants / Q000009:adverse effects*; D000397:Air Pollution / Q000009:adverse effects*; D001249:Asthma / Q000209:etiology*; D001364:Awareness; D002648:Child; D015331:Cohort Studies; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010290:Parents; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014481:United States; D014484:United States Environmental Protection Agency
chemical_list: D000393:Air Pollutants