title: Minority caregivers' emotional responses and perceptions of the emotional responses of their children to asthma: comparing boys and girls.
abstract: Approximately 7.1 million children in the US suffer from asthma. An exploratory qualitative study using a stratified purposive sampling method was conducted. The sample included four Latina and four African American female caregivers of children (ages 6-12) who had asthma. Caregivers were asked open-ended questions about perceptions of their children's emotional responses to asthma. Major themes and subthemes were identified with content analysis. Sons were reported as quiet when experiencing asthma. Daughters were described as being verbal, worried, excited. A question from the study was whether the children's responses were related to caregivers' (a) actions, (b) responses to asthma, and/or(c) race/ethnicity.
authors.affiliation: University of Texas, School of Nursing , Austin, Texas 78701, USA. rwalker@mail.nur.utexas.edu
authors.forename: Veronica García
authors.initials: VG
authors.lastname: Walker
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology*; D001249:Asthma / Q000208:ethnology / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology*; D001294:Attitude to Health / Q000208:ethnology; D002648:Child; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D055809:Illness Behavior; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008913:Minority Groups / Q000523:psychology*; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*; D036301:Qualitative Research; D012951:Socialization; D013781:Texas