Evidence map›Paper›PMID 30234356›Full record

ArticleHealth psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association2018

Family obligations and asthma in youth: The moderating role of socioeconomic status.

Phoebe H Lam, Cynthia S Levine, Jessica J Chiang, Madeleine U Shalowitz, Rachel E Story, Robin Hayen, Rebecca N Sinard, Edith Chen

Open access · hybridAbstract read
PubMed Full text at PMC Publisher
In one paragraph

Article in Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 15% 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

4 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Psychometric properties and predictive validity of the PP-ACT.The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma · 2023
    Article
  2. Bidirectional spillover across days between family assistance and physical health experiences during adolescence.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2021
    Article
  3. Familism and inflammatory processes in African American, Latino, and White youth.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2019
    Article
  4. Article
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

8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Phoebe H LamDepartment of Psychology, Northwestern University.
Cynthia S LevineDepartment of Psychology, Northwestern University.
Jessica J ChiangDepartment of Psychology, Northwestern University.
Madeleine U ShalowitzResearch Institute, NorthShore University HealthSystem.
Rachel E StoryDepartment of Medicine, NorthShore University HealthSystem.
Robin HayenDepartment of Psychology, Northwestern University.
Rebecca N SinardDepartment of Psychology, Northwestern University.
Edith ChenDepartment of Psychology, Northwestern University.
NorthShore University HealthSystem · US

Funding

Multi-Level Understanding of Social Contributors to SES Disparities in AsthmaR01HL108723 · NHLBI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · PI CHEN, EDITH · 2012 to 2016
$2.0M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL108723United States Department of Health and Human Services; National Institutes of Health
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveFulfilling family obligations-providing instrumental help to and spending time with family-is a common aspect of family relationships. However, whether fulfilling these obligations links with physical health remains unclear. In this study, we investigated whether fulfilling family obligations was associated with asthma outcomes among youth, and whether these associations differed depending on family socioeconomic status (SES).

methodParticipants were 172 youth, 8 to 17 years of age (Mage = 12.1; 54% boys) who had been physician-diagnosed with asthma and reported on family-obligation frequency; completed the Asthma Control Test (ACT; Nathan et al., 2004), a clinical measure of asthma control; and completed a measure of airway inflammation (i.e., fractional exhaled nitric oxide). Parents also completed the ACT in reference to their asthmatic children and reported on family income.

resultsFulfilling family obligations was not associated with asthma outcomes (βs < .14, ps > .075). However, SES (family income) interacted with family obligations, such that fulfilling family obligations was associated with greater airway inflammation (interaction term β = -.17, p = .023) and poorer parent-reported asthma control (interaction term β = .15, p = .039), only among youth from lower SES backgrounds. Exploratory analyses suggest that these interactions were robust against covariates and were largely consistent across age and the two dimensions of family-obligation behaviors.

conclusionFindings from this study suggest that among youth from lower SES backgrounds, engaging in more frequent family-obligation behaviors may have negative repercussions in terms of their asthma. (PsycINFO Database Record

Indexed as

CaregiversFamilySocial ClassSocial ResponsibilityAdolescentAsthmaChildExhalationFamily RelationsFemaleHumansIncomeInflammationMaleMental HealthParents

Identifiers

PMID30234356
PMCPMC6209512
OpenAlexW2891915548

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceTDM
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.