Abstract
Asthma is a chronic disease caused by many risk factors. Many factors were assessed among this survey including age, gender, heredity, smoking, and environmental pollutants. Three schools of a total of one thousand one hundred students were selected to conduct the study. Fifty-one students were diagnosed asthmatics and fifty-one students were taken as control group. Same questionnaire was distributed to both cases and control as the method for this study. Results showed a greater prevalence among age group fifteen to eighteen years. No gender difference was discovered. 80% of the cases had one of their family members asthmatics. Molds and pets at home were the causative pollutants among asthmatics with an odd ratio of 5.4 and 2 respectively. Smoking showed no association while 50% of asthmatics had one of their parents a smoker. As a conclusion, asthma has many confounding variables that affect its prognosis among teens.
Sigma Membership
Chi Iota
Type
Other Graduate Paper
Format Type
Text-based Document
Study Design/Type
Cross-Sectional
Research Approach
Quantitative Research
Keywords:
Adolescents, Asthma, Chronic Diseases
Advisor
Unknown
Degree
Master's
Degree Grantor
Independence University
Degree Year
2006
Recommended Citation
Nouwayhed, Lina G., "Risk factors of asthma among teens" (2019). DNP and Student Works. 263.
https://www.sigmarepository.org/dnps/263
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None: Degree-based Submission
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Proxy-submission
Date of Issue
2019-06-04
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