Asthma in children of Caribbean descent living in the inner-city: comparing Puerto Rican and Afro-Caribbean children. Issue 6 (3rd July 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Steinberg, Dara M.; Serebrisky, Denise; Feldman, Jonathan M.
• Is Part Of: Psychology, health & medicine. Volume 22:Issue 6(2017)
• Page Start: 633
• Page End: 639
• Publication Date: 2017-07-03
• Subjects: Asthma -- Caribbean immigrants -- Pediatrics; Medicine and psychology -- Periodicals; Clinical health psychology -- Periodicals; 610
• DOI: 10.1080/13548506.2016.1238490
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1354-8506

Abstract

Abstract: Ethnic minority children bear a disproportionate amount of the US asthma burden. We compared asthma morbidity and pulmonary function (%FEV1 ) in two Caribbean groups living in the Bronx, NY: Puerto Rican and Afro-Caribbean children. Caregiver-child dyads (Puerto Rican: n = 113, M age = 9.89 ± 2.05; Afro-Caribbean: n = 47, M age = 10.35 ± 2.08) responded to sociodemographic and asthma-related questions, and children's %FEV1 was measured. Puerto Rican children had significantly greater (past year) asthma morbidity, yet there were no significant differences in %FEV1 . This discrepancy between objective pulmonary function and asthma morbidity suggests the importance of considering sociocultural factors in pediatric asthma care.