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Tipo: Artigo de Periódico
Título: Maternal mental health and social support: effect on childhood atopic and non-atopic asthma symptoms
Título(s) alternativo(s): J Epidemiol Community Health
Autor(es): Santos, Letícia Marques dos
Santos, Darci Neves dos
Rodrigues, Laura Cunha
Barreto, Mauricio Lima
Autor(es): Santos, Letícia Marques dos
Santos, Darci Neves dos
Rodrigues, Laura Cunha
Barreto, Mauricio Lima
Abstract: Background Atopic and non-atopic asthma have distinct risk factors and immunological mechanisms, and few studies differentiate between the impacts of psychosocial factors on the prevalence of these disease enotypes. The authors aimed to identify whether the effect of maternal mental health on prevalence of asthma symptoms differs between atopic and non-atopic children, taking into account family social support. Methods This is a cross-sectional study of 1013 children participating in the Social Change Allergy and Asthma in Latin America project. Psychosocial data were collected through a household survey utilising Self-Reporting Questionnaire and Medical Outcome Study Social Support Scale. Socioeconomic and wheezing information was obtained through the questionnaire of the international Study of Allergy and Asthma in Childhood, and level of allergen-specific IgE was measured to identify atopy. Polytomous logistic regression was used to estimate the association between maternal mental health, social support and atopic and non-atopic wheezing. Effect modification was evaluated through stratified polytomous regression according to social support level. Results Maternal mental disorder had the same impact on atopic and non-atopic wheezing, even after adjusting for confounding variables. Affective, material and informational supports had protective effects on nonatopic asthma, and there is some evidence that social supports may act as a buffer for the impact of maternal mental disorder on non-atopic wheezing. Conclusion Poor maternal mental health is positively associated with wheez ng, independent of whether asthma is atopic or non-atopic, but perception of high levels of social support appears to buffer this relationship in non-atopic wheezers only.
Palavras-chave: Asthma
Risk Factors
Maternal Mental Health
Editora / Evento / Instituição: BMJ Publishing Group
URI: http://www.repositorio.ufba.br/ri/handle/ri/7079
Data do documento: Nov-2012
Aparece nas coleções:Artigo Publicado em Periódico Estrangeiro (ISC)

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