title: Exploration of the Influence of Factors Identified in the Literature on School-aged Children's Emotional Responses to Asthma.
abstract: Approximately 6.3 million US children suffer from asthma. The purpose of this study was to explore factors on school-aged children's emotional responses to asthma, N=85, ages 6-12. Correlations included Asthma related child emotional functioning QOL and (a) asthma severity, r=-0.30, p<0.01, (b) child internalizing behaviors, r=-0.26, p<0.05, (c) child externalizing behaviors r=-0.43, p<0.001; Caregiver emotional functioning QOL and (a) asthma severity, r=-0.39, p<0.001, (b) child internalizing behaviors, r=-0.22, p<0.05, (c) child externalizing behaviors, r=-0.25; p<0.05. Multiple regression analysis revealed that asthma severity and child externalizing problems accounted for 26% of the variance in asthma related child emotional functioning QOL, F (4, 79)=7.051, p<0.001 (asthma severity, β=-0.31, p<0.01; child externalizing problem behaviors, β=-0.43, p<0.001). Findings imply that asthma research should consider problem behaviors of school-aged children when addressing asthma related emotional functioning QOL.
authors.affiliation: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States. Electronic address: rwalker@mail.nur.utexas.edu.
authors.forename: Verónica García
authors.initials: VG
authors.lastname: Walker
mesh_terms: D000041:Absenteeism; D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D001249:Asthma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D016208:Databases, Factual; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D011788:Quality of Life; D012307:Risk Factors; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D018434:Sickness Impact Profile; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000453:epidemiology*
keywords: asthma; emotional functioning quality of life; externalizing behaviors; internalizing behaviors; school age children