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Asthma and Its Impact in Adolescent: 2nd Edition
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Special Issue "Asthma and Its Impact in Adolescent: 2nd Edition"

A special issue of Children (ISSN 2227-9067). This special issue belongs to the section "Global and Public Health".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 5 September 2024 | Viewed by 1651

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Roberto W. Dal Negro

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National Centre for Respiratory Pharmacoeconomics and Pharmacoepidemiology, 37124 Verona, Italy
Interests: asthma; cough; inhalation devices and their usability; pharmacoeconomics of respiratory diseases
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Considering the success and popularity of the Special Issue "Asthma and Its Impact in Adolescents" previously published in the journal Children (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/children/special_issues/Asthma_Impact_Adolescents), we will now release a second Special Issue aiming to gather original research papers and review articles focused on childhood asthma.

Bronchial asthma is characterized by high socio-economic impact all over the world and still represents a dramatic burden for all health-care systems. Moreover, at an individual level, subjects suffering from bronchial asthma are frequently limited in their quality of life. Bronchial asthma is extremely multifaceted, particularly in young patients.

Several aspects related to bronchial asthma in adolescents have been reviewed and updated thanks to the excellent contributions of our distinguished colleagues in the first Special Issue for which I served as Guest Editor.

Other important domains should be considered and disussed in the field of asthma in adolescents in order to provide more appropriate evidence, information and skills that may better support adolescents, their families and their doctors in coping with asthma.

For these reasons, a second Special Issue has been planned on the same topic.

We welcome your valuable scientific reserach, aiming to further cover gaps in the knowledge.

Dr. Roberto W. Dal Negro
Guest Editor

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Children is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

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  • bronchial asthma
  • asthma impact
  • adolescents

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Parents’ Experiences and Perceptions of Healthcare Transition in Adolescents with Asthma: A Qualitative Study
by
Hyekyun Rhee
,
Lindsay Batek
,
Lynn Rew
and
Laurene Tumiel-Berhalter
Children 2023, 10(9), 1510; https://doi.org/10.3390/children10091510 - 05 Sep 2023
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Adolescence marks a significant transition from pediatric to adult healthcare, and parents play critical roles in supporting their adolescents with chronic conditions through this process. However, little is known about parents’ experiences, perceptions, and needs during this healthcare transition. This qualitative study explores [...] Read more.
Adolescence marks a significant transition from pediatric to adult healthcare, and parents play critical roles in supporting their adolescents with chronic conditions through this process. However, little is known about parents’ experiences, perceptions, and needs during this healthcare transition. This qualitative study explores the experiences and perceptions of parents regarding the care transition of their 16–17-year-old adolescents with asthma. Nineteen mothers participated in either a focus group or individual interviews, and a content analysis was conducted on the data. Parents expressed negative emotions and various concerns about their teens’ transition readiness and asthma management. A need for early transition training for both adolescents and parents was discussed. Overall, the complexity and challenges associated with the healthcare transition of adolescents with asthma take a toll on parents, particularly when their teens are not adequately prepared to manage asthma independently. Parents need appropriate anticipatory guidance regarding the transition and skills to navigate changing roles and negotiate asthma care responsibilities with their teens. Timely interventions and support strategies for both adolescents and parents are needed to ensure the successful healthcare transition of adolescents with asthma. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Asthma and Its Impact in Adolescent: 2nd Edition)
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Parental Education and Adolescents’ Asthma: The Role of Ethnicity
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Edward Adinkrah
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Babak Najand
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Angela Young-Brinn
Children 2023, 10(2), 267; https://doi.org/10.3390/children10020267 - 31 Jan 2023
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While high parental education is associated with better health, this association may be weaker for ethnic minority than for ethnic majority families. It is unknown whether the association between parental education and adolescents’ asthma also varies by ethnicity. Aim: To study the association [...] Read more.
While high parental education is associated with better health, this association may be weaker for ethnic minority than for ethnic majority families. It is unknown whether the association between parental education and adolescents’ asthma also varies by ethnicity. Aim: To study the association between parental education and adolescents’ asthma overall and by ethnicity. Methods: The current study used data from the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH)-Adolescents study. All participants were 12 to 17-year-old non-smokers (n = 8652). The outcome of interest was adolescents’ asthma. The predictor of interest was baseline parental education, the covariates were age, sex, and number of parents present at baseline, and the moderator was ethnicity. Results: According to logistic regression analyses, higher parental education was predictive of adolescents’ asthma; however, this association was weaker for Latino than non-Latino adolescents (OR 1.771; CI 1.282–2.446). We did not find a significant difference in the effect of parental education on asthma of White and African American adolescents. Our stratified models also showed that higher parental education was associated with lower asthma for non-Latino but not for Latino adolescents. Conclusion: The effect of high parental education on adolescents’ asthma prevalence differs between Latino and non-Latino families, with Latino families showing weaker protective effects of parental education on adolescents’ asthma. Future research should test the role of exposure to environmental pollutants, neighborhood quality, and prevalence of smoking in social network members as well as other contextual factors at home, in school, and in the neighborhood that may increase prevalence of asthma in Latino adolescents regardless of their parental education. Given that these potential causes are multi-level, potential causes of such disparities should be tested in future multi-level research. Full article
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