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What Really Happens in the Home: The Medication Environment of Urban, Minority Youth.
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- Home-based educational interventions for children with asthma.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025Pooled it
- Improving Adherence in Urban Youth With Asthma: Role of Community Health Workers.The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice · 2022Trial
- Home Medication Readiness for Preschool Children With Asthma.Pediatrics · 2018Trial
- Improving asthma self-management education through inhaler labeling.PEC innovation · 2024Article
- Inhalation Devices in 7- to 15-Year-Old Children with Asthma - A Patient Preference Study.Patient preference and adherence · 2023Article
- Evaluating the Financial Sustainability of the School-Based Telemedicine Asthma Management Program.Population health management · 2021Article
- Strategies for Improving Inhalation Technique in Children: A Narrative Review.Patient preference and adherence · 2021Review
- A Mixed-methods Study Examining Inhaler Carry and Use among Children at School.The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma · 2020Observational
- Critical Errors in Inhaler Technique among Children Hospitalized with Asthma.Journal of hospital medicine · 2019Article
- What really happens in the home: a comparison of parent-reported and observed tooth brushing behaviors for young children.BMC oral health · 2019Article
- Psychological and lifestyle risk factors for asthma exacerbations and morbidity in children.The World Allergy Organization journal · 2017Review
- Association between inhaler technique and confidence among hospitalized children with asthma.Respiratory medicineArticle
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Abstract
backgroundAsthma disproportionately affects minority youth. Understanding the home medication environment and its relation to medication adherence can shape interventions to improve health outcomes.
objectiveThe objective of this study was to describe the asthma medication environment in the homes of urban minority youth and to determine predictors of medication use and technique in this population.
methodsBaseline data from 2 cohorts of minority youth with asthma in Chicago were combined for cross-sectional analysis. Bilingual research assistants (RAs) collected data in the home. RAs asked caregivers and children to self-report medications using pictures and observed children's asthma medications and inhaler technique.
resultsThe sample contained 175 mainly Latino youth (85.6%) ranging from 5 to 18 years old. Most were on public insurance (80%) and had uncontrolled asthma by self-report (89.7%). Only 27.4% had a spacer, 74.9% had a quick relief medicine, and 48.6% had any controller medicine. RA observations of controllers agreed with children (36%) and parental self-report (42.3%) but did not match the specific observed controllers. Children reported less parental help with medications (43%) than their parents (58.1%). One child was able to properly demonstrate 100% of the inhaler steps and 35.6% achieved >70% of inhaler steps. A better medication technique was associated with having a controller (b = 12.2, SE = 3.0, P < .0001), quick reliever (b = 8.05, SE = 3.5, P = .023), and a spacer (b = 9.3, SE = 3.54, P = .009).
conclusionsThis rigorous evaluation of the home medication environment of high-risk youth demonstrated that many families lack critical medications, devices, and a technique for proper management of asthma.
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