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Trial reportJournal of pediatric health care : official publication of National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates & Practitioners

Stress and Quality of Life in Urban Caregivers of Children With Poorly Controlled Asthma: A Longitudinal Analysis.

Melissa H Bellin, Philip Osteen, Joan Kub, Mary E Bollinger, Mona Tsoukleris, Laurie Chaikind, Arlene M Butz

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In one paragraph

Trial report in Journal of pediatric health care : official publication of National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates & Practitioners. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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23citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
6.9field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 58 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Home-based educational interventions for children with asthma.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025
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  3. Very Poorly Controlled Asthma in Urban Minority Children: Lessons Learned.The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice
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  4. Improving Care of Inner-City Children with Poorly Controlled Asthma: What Mothers Want You to Know.Journal of pediatric health care : official publication of National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates & Practitioners
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  16. Sleep intervention for children with asthma and their parents (SKIP Study): a novel web-based shared management pilot study.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2020
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  18. Association between second hand smoke (SHS) exposure and caregiver stress in children with poorly controlled asthma.The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Melissa H Bellin
Philip Osteen
Joan Kub
Mary E Bollinger
Mona Tsoukleris
Laurie Chaikind
Arlene M Butz
University of Maryland, Baltimore · USFlorida State University · USKennedy Krieger Institute · US

Funding

Asthma Express: Bridging Emergency to Primary Care in Underserved ChildrenR01NR013486 · NINR · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI BUTZ, ARLENE MANNS · 2013 to 2017
$2.3M
Pediatric Asthma Alert Intervention in Minority ChildrenR01NR010546 · NINR · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI BUTZ, ARLENE MANNS · 2008 to 2011
$2.1M
NINR NIH HHS NR010546NINR NIH HHS R01 NR010546NINR NIH HHS R01 NR013486
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionThe intent of this analysis was to examine the longitudinal effects of risk and protective factors on quality of life (QOL) in caregivers of minority children with asthma.

methodCaregivers (n = 300) reported on demographics, child asthma characteristics, daily asthma caregiving stress, general life stress, social support, and QOL. Latent growth curve modeling examined changes in QOL across 12 months as a function of stress, asthma control, and social support.

resultsCaregivers were primarily the biological mother (92%), single (71%), unemployed (55%), and living in poverty. Children were African American (96%), Medicaid eligible (92%), and had poorly controlled asthma (93%). Lower QOL was associated with higher life stress, greater asthma caregiving stress, and lower asthma control over time. DISCUSSION: Findings underscore the importance of assessing objective and subjective measures of asthma burden and daily life stress in clinical encounters with urban, low-income caregivers of children with poorly controlled asthma.

Indexed as

Black or African AmericanDrug MonitoringQuality of LifeAsthmaCaregiversChildChild, PreschoolHumansLongitudinal StudiesMedication AdherencePatient Education as TopicPovertySeverity of Illness IndexSocial SupportStress, PsychologicalUnited StatesAsthmacaregiversquality of lifestress

Identifiers

PMID26036621
PMCPMC4624025
OpenAlexW2111792272

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