Asthma-related health services and asthma control among women in Puerto Rico:

SAGE Open Medicine

María CalixtaOrtiz-Rivera¹ 

关键词: Asthma control;    women;    health-care utilization;    Andersen’s behavioral model;    Asthma Call Back Survey;    logistic regression;    Puerto Rico;   

DOI  :  10.1177/2050312117745903

学科分类：医学（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

Objectives:This study evaluates social, behavioral, and environmental determinants to differentiate between active and inactive asthma and how predisposing, enabling, and need factors elucidate asthma-related health services and asthma control among women in Puerto Rico.Methods:This study analyzed secondary cross-sectional data from a subsample of 625 adult females who participated in the Asthma Call Back Survey in Puerto Rico. Logistic and multinomial regression analyses were conducted to examine associations between explanatory variables and asthma outcomes.Results:In total, 63% of women reported active asthma, from which 37.9% have not well controlled or very poorly controlled asthma. Women with active asthma were significantly more likely to be out of work, have middle income (US$25,000–

【 授权许可】

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