Oral steroid medications to manage asthma

Participants and procedure

One hundred and ninety-four youth with asthma and their caregivers took part in the Asthma in the Lives of Families Today (ALOFT) project. Data on GR was available for 145 children (10 16years of age). Among the 145 children, two of them reported using oral steroid medications to manage their asthma. These two individuals were excluded from the analyses, resulting in a final sample of 143 children (M =12.651.66years, 39.2% female, 76.2% African Americans). Participants who were

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Descriptive results

Table 1 displays the means, standard deviations, and correlation coefficients between study variables. Family SES and financial stress were negatively correlated with each other (r=-0.52, p<0.001); however, neither of them was significantly correlated with GR of Th-2 cytokines or IFN- (ps>0.10). Maternal involvement was positively correlated with SES (r=0.19, p=0.030) and negatively correlated with financial stress (r=-0.27, p=0.002), but not with GR of Th-2 cytokines or IFN- (p

Discussion

This study tested the associations among , financial stress, maternal involvement and warmth, and GR in a sample of youth with asthma. We found that family SES was associated with financial stress. Family SES and financial stress were not associated with GR of Th-2 cytokines or IFN-. However, financial stressbut not family SES interacted with both maternal involvement and warmth in influencing GR of Th-2 cytokines. Specifically, was associated with higher

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