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ArticleThe Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma2025

Individual and system-level determinants of caregivers' quality of life among inner-city preschool children with asthma.

Olusegun Owotomo, Kristin A Riekert, Cynthia S Rand, Michelle N Eakin

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Article in The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Olusegun OwotomoEudowood Division of Pediatric Respiratory Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Kristin A RiekertDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Cynthia S RandDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Michelle N EakinDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Funding

Multidisciplinary Training Program in Pediatric PulmonaryT32HL072748 · NHLBI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI Joseph Michael Collaco · 2003 to 2026
$6.1M
Reducing Asthma Morbidity in High Risk Minority Preschool ChildrenR18HL107223 · NHLBI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI RAND, CYNTHIA S · 2011 to 2016
$3.4M
NHLBI NIH HHS R18 HL107223NHLBI NIH HHS T32 HL072748
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Abstract

objectiveCaregivers of children with asthma can become overwhelmed by the burden of care provision. Guided by the socioecological framework, we examined individual and system-level factors associated with caregiver health-related quality of life (HRQoL) among preschool children (aged two to six years) enrolled in a multilevel home- and school-based asthma educational intervention in Baltimore, Maryland.

methodsThe primary outcome was caregiver HRQoL measured at baseline and six months. Independent variables were baseline individual-level factors (caregiver's health literacy, self-efficacy to manage asthma, and depressive symptoms) and system-level factors (barriers to asthma care measured in five subdomains-pragmatics, health knowledge and beliefs, expectations, skills, and marginalization-and neighborhood social cohesion). Multiple regression models were used to assess the association between baseline individual and system-level factors and caregiver HRQoL at baseline and six-month follow-up adjusting for the child's asthma control, caregiver's age, household income, and study arm assignment/intervention.

results398 caregivers completed the baseline survey and 328 (82%) completed the six-month follow-up survey. In the adjusted multiple regression model, lower caregiver's health literacy and higher barriers to asthma care related to pragmatics were significantly associated with lower caregiver HRQoL at baseline (

conclusionCaregiver health literacy and barriers to asthma care related to pragmatics and skills were found to be important determinants of asthma caregiver HRQoL. Addressing these factors may improve the quality of life among caregivers of preschool children with asthma.

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AsthmaCaregiversQuality of LifeAdultBaltimoreChildChild, PreschoolFemaleHealth Knowledge, Attitudes, PracticeHealth LiteracyHumansMaleSelf EfficacyUrban PopulationAfrican-AmericanAsthmaasthma carebarriers to carecaregiver quality of lifechild asthmachild healthhead starthealth literacyinner-city childrenlow-incomeminorityPACQOLurban children

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PMCPMC12092197

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